![]() ![]() O'Brien: "When you were living in Los Angeles your apartment was burglarized and your ‘precious babies’ were almost stolen. He told us that he was into what we were doing, and The Plaster Casters of Chicago were born! He wanted to interview us for a pop and culture piece he was doing for Life magazine. Eric had a friend who knew Frank Zappa, so he was there, and he wanted to know what we were doing. So, we went over to his hotel room, and no one was really interested in posing for me. Eric had said to stop by his hotel room the following day. O'Brien: "How did you meet Frank Zappa? I heard that Eric Clapton told him about you?"Ĭynthia: "Frank Zappa? Yeah, I tried to talk Eric into posing with me. We declined to be enshrined, so to speak".Ĭynthia, still very much active today, says of these events in her Web blog and an online interview with Christine O'Brien: She took her mouth off the guy's dick, and then the other one slammed the mold onto it. One of them mixed the plaster stuff to make a mold, and the other gave the guy a blow job. They had all these statues of the dicks of people like Jimi Hendrix. ![]() Zappa: " Eric Clapton introduced me to the Plaster-Casters. Playboy: ".There were other characters – such as Cynthia Plaster-Caster. Zappa says of the Casters in an interview in Playboy, May 2, 1993: Cynthia Plaster, as she is now known, and her 'plater', Dianne, are able to immortalize musicians in a unique and refreshing, if somewhat controversial, manner". In January 1969 Rolling Stone ran a 'groupie issue', with photos by Baron Wolman featuring The Plaster Casters Of Chicago, described as "two teen-age art students who recently studied the art of body casting and took their newly learned technique to new highs…or lows, as the case may be. The key operator was Cynthia Plaster-Caster (real name Cynthia Albritton), aided by her musician-stimulating accomplice- a role initially occupied by her high-school art student friend known as ' Pest', then by Dianne Plaster-Caster who retired from Casterdom and was replaced by a succession of assistants. The Plaster Casters Of Chicago, as this duo came to be known, effected their access to meeting rock stars by taking plaster casts of their erect manhood for souvenirs. ![]() None more so than a pair of groupies he had met in Chicago whom he introduced to the LA music scene in furtherance of their 'groupie-art'. As his work edged toward the 70's his particular foresight and comment on the Human Condition coalesced the downright bizarre with the social norm of California, elevating the most unlikely characters in the world of music into indelible public consciousness. As the 'Swinging Sixties' came to a close on both sides of the Atlantic the constantly evolving personalities in the 'Freak Scene' of Los Angeles provided Zappa with a wealth of inspiration for his controversial projects. ![]()
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