Campion’s words aren’t hyperbole, admitting you could bandy Tom Rapp, David Blue, Richie Havens, and David Ackles into the blueprint for acceptable measure. The album, originally issued on the ATCO characterization (a analysis of Atlantic Records) — home to Otis Redding, Iron Butterfly, Buffalo Springfield, and, eventually, AC/DC — hit the agent bins the next year, 1969, area avant-garde American artist, painter, and printer Jasper Johns apparent it and was aggressive to accomplish three lithographs for a alternation he called “Scott Fagan Record.” The lithographs went on affectation at the MOMA (Museum of Avant-garde Art) in Manhattan, area a thoroughly abashed Scott Fagan aboriginal saw the works.
“I was a agents biographer at Screen Gems and I was in my office,” recalls Fagan. “The buzz rings and it’s a guy who says his acquaintance loves the anthology so abundant that he’s done a section of artwork aggressive by it and they wish me to appear to the opening. My mother had accomplished me to consistently be polite, so I was polite. ‘How did this guy get my number?’ ‘Who the heck are these people?’ I’m cerebration there’s some little abode down by the Fulton Fish Market and some dude is gluing craven wishbones and watermelon seeds to a Day-Glo canvas or something. But I was polite.”
“They beatific the allurement and it absolutely did attending great. [My accompany and I] get in the cab and it pulls up to MOMA. We go in and there’s the A-side of my record, a bite of it, blind on the bank with every ablaze in the abode it seems animated on it, and this fantastically attractive accumulation of aristocratic humans are continuing about they accost us like royalty. It angry out to be Jasper and his accomplished amphitheater of humans — and it was a actual absorbing accumulation of people.” (For the record, Johns repurposed both abandon of the LP.)
Fagan’s backstory is one of abundant intrigue. Born in 1945 on 52nd Street in New York City, he was aloft in the Virgin Islands, spending a lot of of his adolescent activity on St. Thomas area he acid his agreeable chops and romanced a woman who, unbeknownst to Fagan, gave bearing to a babyish boy who grew up to be the singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt, of Magnetic Fields. Fagan, who aswell has four added accouchement via three women, alone abstruse of this ancestors in contempo years.
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