from the Hacienda Bridge / Hardy Fox & Charles Bobuck newsletter, September 1, 2017, #23 Perhaps surprisingly, Snakfinger played a bass drum with his foot on The Residents' 13th Anniversary tour.
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philip lithman / snakefinger
Performed and recorded with The Residents.
Snakefinger also contributed his version of a Residents composition to "The Residents Unmasked", a Residents tribute compilation.
Belgian band A Group recorded a Snakefinger composition on their Volume 3 album.
In his March 2017 newsletter, Hardy Fox says :
Much like The Residents, the
Delta Nudes never existed. It was a loose assortment of people who got together and made noise, and never bothered with a name.
The name was added only recently out of needing a convenient way to designate the time period.
But found in that group were the people who were to become The Residents, the man who would later become Snakefinger, and a handful of other
regulars :
from the Hacienda Bridge / Hardy Fox & Charles Bobuck newsletter, September 1, 2017, #23 Perhaps surprisingly, Snakfinger played a bass drum with his foot on The Residents' 13th Anniversary tour.
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discography
| the residents: baby sex (1971, unreleased) |
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willi & the red hot peppers: kings of the robot rhythm (1972, lp, ??, revelation) |
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| chilli
willi & the red hot peppers: bongos over balham (1974, lp, ??, mooncrest) |
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| the residents: satisfaction (1976, 7", usa, ralph) |
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| the residents: fingerprince (1977, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| snakefinger:
the spot (1978, 7", usa, ralph) |
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| the residents: duck stab / buster & glen (1978, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| the residents: eskimo (1979, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| snakefinger:
chewing hides the sound (1979, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| the residents: diskomo (1980, ep, usa, ralph) |
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| the residents: the commercial album (1980, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| snakefinger: the man in the dark sedan / womb to worm (1980, 7", france, cel 6214) |
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| snakefinger:
greener postures (1980, lp, usa, ralph) - re-released with bonus tracks in 2016 |
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| the residents: the tunes of two cities (1982, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| snakefinger:
manuel of errors (1982, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| the residents: residue of the residents (1983, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| the residents: title in limbo (1983, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| snakefinger:
against the grain (1983, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| snakefinger's
history of the blues:
live in europe (1984, lp, uk, rough trade) - re-released on cd with bonus tracks in 2013 / feat. eric drew feldman |
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| the residents: stars & hank forever: the
american composer series (1986, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| the club foot orchestra: wild beasts (1986, lp, usa, ralph) |
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| snakefinger:
snakefinger's vestal virgins: live in chicago (1986, 7", usa, ralph) - released on cd on the tec tones label in 1996 |
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| snakefinger: i gave myself to you (1986, 7", australia, aim fan 005) |
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| snakefinger:
night of desirable objects (1987, lp, usa, ralph) - released on cd on the tec tones label in 1993 |
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| the residents: the thirteenth anniversary show (1987, lp, ??, ??) |
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| snakefinger:
a collection (1988, cd, usa, east side digital) |
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| snakefinger: philip charles lithman aka snakefinger (1993, cd, usa, uweb) |
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| various
artists: the residents
unmasked! (1995, 3k7, usa, ecto tapes) - all compositions by the residents |
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| chilli
willi & the red hot peppers: i'll be home (1996, cd, ??, proper records) = a rarities compilation |
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| snakefinger's
vestal virgins: live at
the vic, friday june 20th, 1986 (1998, cdr, usa, esoteric music group) - feat. eric drew feldman, incl. compositions by snakefinger/residents |
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| a group: volume 3
(2) (2000, cd, bel, via records belgium viakra 6920022) - incl. compositions by snakefinger, raymond scott |
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snakefinger: live in melbourne (2015, 2lp, usa, secret records) - re-issued in 2019 |
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| snakefinger:
chewing hides the sound (2016, cd, austria, klanggalerie gg220) - featuring the residents / = reissue of the 1979 album |
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| snakefinger:
greener postures (2016, cd, austria, klanggalerie gg225) - featuring the residents / re-release of the 1980 album |
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| snakefinger: manual of errors (2017, cd, austria, klanggalerie gg239) - featuring the residents / = reissue with bonus material |
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snakefinger's vestal virgins: night of desirable objects (2018, cd, austria, klanggalerie gg258) = reissue with bonus material / feat. eric drew feldman |
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various
artists: secret records compilation 2019 1/2 (2019, cd, usa, secret records) - feat. the residents, hardy fox |
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random notes
July 2010, Flemish magazine Gonzo Circus did a special on Snakefinger.
The article included links to the interview Snakefinger and Hardy Fox did with Oscar Smith on 1987/06/05 on a dutch local radio station (regio Amsterdam).
http://www.gonzocircus.com/7357/nagedachten-snakefinger
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