Episode 4 - Roots of Performance - Let Me Be Frank (NSFW)<br /><br />Originally we had planned to do a documentary about Frank's life and work because we have so much footage and so many photographs. But we did not want to do a "normal" talking head style documentary. We realized that Frank had already written a biography of sorts in his book, "Art of a Shaman" so we decided to try to use that as the "script" for the video. We decided to see if we could get people who were important to Frank and had played a part in his life to each read a chapter of the book. After drafting the email and sending it out we were blown away at the immediate response and the project took off. We assigned chapters to readers using the random principle ... as Frank loved to do ... pulling a piece of paper with a chapter number written on it from a bag as we read a person's name. <br /><br />Once we had all of the recordings of the readings and added up the time, the documentary was going to be at least 3 hours long ... and it was going to take a really long time to put together. We then had a eureka on a walk one day.... we could put each chapter out on the web as we create them ... as episodes!

Several musicians are now creating "background music" for each episode. <br /><br />Way back at the beginning, when we first had the thought of even doing a documentary about Frank, we asked Vinnie Spit Santino if he would write a song for it, without any idea how we would use it ... or what we were even doing with the documentary. Vinnie wrote the amazing "Let Me Be Frank" that will be the opening song for each episode ... and the title of the series! <br /><br />"Art of A Shaman" Chapter 4 text: <a href="http://eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham4.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://eroplay.com/Cave/ArtShaman/artsham4.html</a> <br /><br />Watch more episodes at <a href="http://frankadelic.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://frankadelic.com</a> <br /><br />Reading by:<br />Annie Sprinkle<br /><br /><br />MUSIC<br />(in order of appearance)<br /><br />Opening music:<br />Piano by Frank Moore.<br />An excerpt from a live performance,<br />"Sing Along, Jam Along, Play Along, Dance Along,<br />Rub Along, Move Along with Frank Moore"<br />for Leslie Baker's Salon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada via Skype.<br />Recorded March 10, 2012.<br /><br />“Let Me Be Frank” (the song)<br />written, arranged, performed and produced by Vinnie Spit Santino<br />recorded, mixed and mastered at Vinali Creative Group, Van Nuys, CA by Vinnie Spit Santino<br /><br />Vinnie Spit Santino - lead vocals, all guitars, bass<br />Frank Moore - vocals on bridge<br />Rebecca Kyler Downs - backing vocals and all harmonies<br />Gary Ponder - drums<br />Drake Peterson - trumpet<br />Tony Rinaldi - trombone<br /><br />Chapter title animation music:<br />by Michael LaBash <br /><br />Background music:<br />by Sander Roscoe Wolff<br /><br />“Wrapping/Rocking”<br />Chanted by Michael LaBash<br />Background music:<br />excerpt from “Body Music”<br />performed by Frank Moore’s Chero Company<br />Leigh Gates, Michael LaBash, Alexi Malenky & Rourke Smith<br /><br />Background music:<br />“Happy Dance”<br />written by Jerome T. Youngman<br />performed by Mutant Press<br />from the album “Strung Out On You”<br />500 Pound Weasel Records<br /><br />Annie Sprinkle bio:<br />Background music:<br />performed by Father of Skins <br /><br />Closing credits music:<br />“Jesus Was A Punk”<br />written by John the Baker<br />performed by John the Baker with Slimy Penis Breath <br />from the album “LIVE”<br /><br />“To Be Free”<br />written and performed by Tha Archivez<br />Longhorn Entertainment<br /><br /><br />PHOTOS:<br />Jim Appleton<br />Les Barany<br />Julian Cash<br />Ken Jennings<br />Tracy Kauffman-Wood<br />Eric Kroll<br />Michael LaBash<br />Daniel Lorenze<br />Linda Mac<br />Alexi Malenky<br />Debbie Moore<br />Dave Patrick<br />Kevin Rice<br />Annie Sprinkle<br />David Steinberg<br />Mary Sullivan<br />Wolfgang<br /><br />ILLUSTRATIONS:<br />David Hochbaum<br />Lee Kay<br />Charles R. Knight [Public Domain]<br />Michael LaBash<br />Frank Moore<br />Justin Page<br />John Seabury<br /><br />ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE:<br />Dave Swan’s Dog House<br />Betty Boop: “Minnie The Moocher” by Max Fleischer [Public Domain]<br />Betty Boop: “I Heared” by Max Fleischer [Public Domain]<br />Three Stooges: “Disorder In The Court” [Public Domain]<br />Life and Passion of Christ (1903) [Public Domain]<br />Stock footage: Mitch Martinez www.mitchmartinez.com<br /><br /><br />Editing, Animation, and Title Design:<br />Michael LaBash<br /><br />Produced by<br />Linda Mac & Michael LaBash<br /><br />Directed by<br />Frank Moore<br /><br /><br />Thanks to all of the readers so far ...<br />Tha Archivez<br />Kenneth Atchley<br />Attaboy<br />Dr. Susan Block<br />Paul Couillard<br />Steve Davis<br />Stephen Emanuel<br />Paul Escriva<br /> Edna Floretta<br />Barbara Golden<br />Fred Hatt<br />John the Baker<br />Dr. Richard Kerbavaz<br />Michael LaBash<br />Lob<br />Kirk Lumpkin<br />Linda Mac<br />Alexi Malenky<br />Jake McGee<br />Kayla Moon<br />Corey Nicholl<br />Carl Off<br />Vinnie Spit Santino<br />Erika Shaver-Nelson<br />Russell Shuttleworth<br />Linda Carmella Sibio<br />Gerald Smith<br />Megan Soriano<br />Annie Sprinkle<br />David Steinberg<br />Veronica Vera<br />Martha Wilson<br /><br />And thanks to all of the musicians who have created and contributed music for this project so far …<br />K. Atchley<br />Stephen Emanuel<br />Father of Skins<br />Barbara Golden<br />Phog Masheeen<br />Vinnie Spit Santino<br />Sander Roscoe Wolff<br />Jerome T. Youngman (Mutant Press)<br /><br />Thanks to the crew at Coffee Conscious for keeping us going!<br /><br />Thanks to Vinnie Spit Santino for the title!<br /><br />Watch more episodes at <a href="http://frankadelic.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://frankadelic.com</a> <br />