Telekin

about

Telekin was formed in 1980, in Hollywood , California, by former child actor Teddy Quinn (‘the Aspirin Boy’; “Does it Hurt and Have a Temperature?’; “Mothers are like that. Yeah, They Are!”) and Catherine (Cathie Kimble) Shinn (The Deadbeats; Geza X and the Mommymen), along with Quinn’s former band-mates (from the unironically named The Eighties, best known in town for their buttons, worn ubiquitously in 1979), Donald Kaiser and Denise Fraser; Quinn’s sister, Debra; and Shinn’s 'spiritual sister’ Elizabeth (Taylor) Taubman. Originally a couple, Quinn and ‘Kimble’ wrote many of their earliest songs together to cheer Jimmy and Cathie Kimble’s toddler daughter, Autumn (Visiting Kids), who was recently in remission from neuroblastoma, a rare cancer, akin to leukemia. Quinn’s lyrics and Kimble’s music, whimsical, dream-like, optimistic and satirical, did not fit easily into any of the categories popular in L.A. in the early 80’s. Their Kraftwerk/Bowie/Eno-influenced sound was mistaken for the fluffier style of Duran Duran and other lightweights gaining attention from across the ocean. They weren’t punk, rock-a-billy, faux-funk or Sunset Strip metal and were largely dismissed by the heroin-laden hipster scene in Hollywood. One exception was Israeli-born, avant-garde fashion/pop music photographer, Moshe Brakha, best known for his early, classic black and white Devo portraits, who fell in love with the group, perhaps seeing himself as a fatherly “Andy Warhol” to their “Velvet Underg

top songs

albums

similar artists