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Due to the obscure nature of the band, it's difficult to get an accurate history of The Residents. What follows is information from one unauthorized account.The Residents originally hail from Shreveport, Louisiana, where they met in high school in the 1960s. In 1966, members headed west to San Francisco, California. After their truck broke down in San Mateo, they decided to remain there.Whilst attempting to eke out a living they experimented with tape machines, photography, and anything remotely to do with "art" that they could get their hands on. Word of their experimentation spread and, in 1969, a British guitarist named Philip Lithman and the mysterious N. Senada (who Lithman had picked up in Bavaria) paid them a visit, and decided to remain.The two Europeans would eventually become great influences on the band. Lithman's guitar playing technique earned him the name Snakefinger.The group purchased crude recording equipment and instruments and began to make tapes, refusing to let an almost complete lack of musical proficiency stand in the way. One of their first public performances was at the Longbranch in Berkeley, California.In 1971 the group sent a reel-to-reel tape to Hal Halverstadt at Warner Brothers. Fortunately, having worked with Captain Beefheart, Halverstadt was impressed with "The Warner Bros. Album" though it was rejected. Because the band had not included any name in the return address, the rejection slip was simply addressed to "The Residents". This is where the band got the name.The first performance of the band using the "Residents" moniker was at the Boarding House Club in San Francisco in 1971. That same year another tape was completed, the charmingly named Baby Sex with its cover lifted from the pages of a Danish porn mag.In 1972 they moved to San Francisco and formed Ralph Records.Around this time, the band adopted N. Senada's "Theory of Obscurity", which states that the artist can only produce pure art when the expectations and influences of the outside world are not taken into consideration.In the mid 1980s, one member's eyeball mask was stolen, so it was replaced with a giant skull mask. The eye was returned in 1985 by a devoted fan who discovered where the thief lived and stole it back. It was put into retirement because it was now "unclean" and had become nothing more than a superfluous shell with no soul........................................................
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