Movie: Clown Rampage 1!
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Movie: Street Fair music!
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All you clowns and wannabe fools, it's time to head downtown in your best floppy shoes, rubber noses and whiteface paint! It's time for another Clown Rampage!
We'll end up at the Snake Bridge at some point, where some Clown Antics will certainly ensue. Don't miss this opportunity to become part of a surreal collective dream! You've not likely had this much fun in this lifetime!
...See you in yer dreams!
—Windpipe the Clown
This silly page was last revised July 31, 2008 4:01 PM.
A surreal gathering of more than 25 Clowns took to the streets of downtown Tucson and rampaged all the bars and cafés up and down 4th Avenue and Congress. We took over the Grill and fit most of ourselves together in the little photo-booth... Even Clowns from Phoenix drove down to join us.
Clown Band played in the Street Fair, without obeying the rules... we played in Shyclops' front yard! The cops didn't come till after we'd been playing for 4 hours...
Windpipe, Prissy and Frenchie paid a visit to the Pima County Fair. After bringing mirth and merriment (and a wee bit o' fear) to the masses there, the Fair Authorities gave 'em the boot because they weren't up to date on their Clown Insurance...
Clown Band played in a circus at Tucson Puppet Works in the summer...
Clown Band was featured in the Earth Day festivities in Flagstaff, and we were actually paid for our labors!
To raise cash for Tucson's famous All Souls' Procession, the Clowns played a loud and raucous show at Nimbus Brewery... Here are some of the only known photos from the time of that event.
Clown Band performed with Molehill Orkestrah and Flam Chen, among others, at a benefit for Radio Electra, a pirate radio station at the Burning Man festival, in April of 2003. After the show, a conflict ensued between Windpipe and Lama Bombpruf, one of the ringleaders of the fire troupe Flam Chen. Lama ended up shooting Windpipe in the throat, but being a very durable Clown, Windpipe recovered rapidly from his wounds and moved to San Francisco for a whole week before returning to the desert to begin his mayhem anew.
In December, 2003, a pair of Clowns took a road trip to Los Angeles to visit the Robert Berman Gallery, which featured a frighteningly delicious show of 1,000 Clown paintings. This celebration of bad art derived from flea markets and yard sales was inspiring and terrifying. We had Mistress Karin on hand to keep us from misbehaving and ending up in jail. After the gallery visit, we took a stroll up Venice Beach and scared away a couple of mimes.
Clown Band, along with about twenty other Clowns including members of Tucson Puppet Works and local fire troupe Flam Chen, went live on cable TV with a raucous, surreal show that featured all sorts of really wrong skits along with some very fine musick. After the show, one Clown brought out a keg and all the Clowns got wasted drunk in a dark alley downtown. Anybody who happened accidentally upon that scene probably had trouble convincing his psychiatrist that it ever really happened...
Clown Band opened for the Extra Action Marching Band, an amazing band of freaks from the Bay area who were trying to make some money to get home after their surprise assault on the streets of Bisbee on New Year's Eve. Just when we Clowns thought we might recover from our antics on New Year's, we were subjected to some extra action yet again. It was even better than a cream pie in the face.
On New Year's Eve 2003, an even larger assembly of Clowns converged on Bisbee and took over not only the streets, but several homes and storefronts as well. Hi-breed the Clown provided luxurious Clown accommodations in the Hi-house, overlooking the ghost-infested town of Bisbee in all its spooky glory.
Clown Band took to the streets, then to the stage, during the infamous and famous Bisbee mayhem celebrating the New Year in 2002. We were joined by the fabulous Extra Action Marching Band of Oakland, CA, along with a host of other freaks and lots of people playing with fire.
The very first Clown Band show erupted spontaneously in the middle of the Fall bar Crawl. Roughly twenty Clowns converged in the night. Some of us played eerie music, straight from our red hearts and red noses. Some of us chased audience members around with electric carving knives. Others ran around hitting giant balloons with hammers. A pair of antique Clown puppets with big knives danced about trying to cut each other's strings. The show went on till 3 a.m. and became legendary in Tucson.
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