Club Foot Orchestra

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The History of Club Foot By Richard Marriott The Club Foot, at 2520 Third Street in San Francisco, was the brainchild of Richard Kelly, a composer/visionary who had studied with John Cage and David Tudor. It was Kelly's obsession to marry high art values to the vitality of underground performance art; to fuse Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison and Albert Ayler and project that onto the art-rock stage. The 1980 "Club Foot" vinyl on Subterranean Records documents this scene, featuring four bands which revolved around Kelly at that time: The Longshoremen, Naked City (no relation to John Zorn's group), Bay of Pigs, and the Alterboys. The Club Foot themes which open and close the aforementioned LP were performed by a composite of those groups - this was the first Club Foot Orchestra. After playing in some Kelly productions, I moved into the flat above the Club Foot. After fifteen months of ear-splitting angst emerging from below, I formed an orchestra to perform at a Club Foot music festival in June of 1983. Following a peculiar egalitarian ethic, all musicians were welcome to play; beginners took simple, but essential roles, virtuosos played the showy and difficult parts, and improvisors soloed over the top. We called ourselves "Orquestra FOOT a dentra la Boca". Our band included three members from Kelly's earlier group: Opter Flame, Karl DeLovely and Bruce Ackley of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. Also present were Neil Kaku on bass, guitarist Eugene Chadbourne and Tutti on bass flute, p

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