The Druds
The Druds was a short-lived 1963 avant-garde band founded by Andy Warhol,[1] that featured prominent members of the early New York conceptual art community.
History
[edit]Minimalist sculptor Walter De Maria played drums, painter Larry Poons played guitar, and minimal composer La Monte Young played the saxophone (but finding it ridiculous, quit after the second rehearsal);[2] artist and poet Patty Mucha (then Patty Oldenburg, as she was married to sculptor Claes Oldenburg) was the lead singer.[3] Jasper Johns wrote neodada lyrics as did Warhol who also occasionally sang.[4] Warhol wrote the songs The Alphabet Song, Movie Stars, Hollywood and Coca-Cola.[5][6][3] Happening artists Gloria Graves[7] and Lucas Samaras also sang with the group.[8]
The band's sound has been compared to that of Henry Flynt as well as Lou Reed and John Cale's early band the Primitives, formed prior to the Velvet Underground.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ^ a b Russeth, Andrew (January 16, 2012). "Six Feet of the 1960s and '70s: Patty Mucha—Once Mrs. Oldenburg—on Her Archives and New Memoir | Gallerist NY". GalleristNY. Archived from the original on January 23, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
- ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ^ [1] Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Workat the Frist Center for the Visual Arts by Robert Stalker
- ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol: A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
- ^ [2] FROM WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT The Velvet Underground DAY BY DAY
- ^ [3] Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Workat the Frist Center for the Visual Arts by Robert Stalker
