Slapshot - Told You So Jack "Choke" Kelly graduated from Provincetown High School in the Class of '81 before heading off to college. He was often seen in the Emerson College cafeteria proselytizing about the virtues of abstinence from meat and sex. He formed the straight-edge hardcore act Negative F/X before leading Slapshot to hardcore infamy. He has returned over the years to haul fish and as a cook.
Elvis Perkins In Dearland - Shampoo He is the son of Psycho's Anthony Perkins and model/actress Berry Berenson but has made a name for himself as a critically acclaimed Americana artist. He spent much of his formative years on the tip of Cape Cod.
The BuLife - I AM Co-founded by Silas Luster, hip-hop artist and painter, who is the progeny of one of Provincetown's greatest art lineages. He is the son of Cynthia Packard, grandson of Anne Packard and the great-great grandson of Max Bohm.
Moulty & The Barbarians - Hey Little Bird Provincetown's Victor "Moulty" Moulton was the drummer and leader of the Barbarians. They scored with the hit Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl? after landing a role in the 1964 teen flick The T.A.M.I. Show where they shared a stage with James Brown and The Rolling Stones.
Billy Hough & The X-Loves - Touralouralay He has become a Provincetown institution for his Scream Along With Billy performances at the Gifford House and Enzo's. He also records with his siblings as the Garage Dogs.
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone Fearless leader Gordon Gano is now a summer fixture on Ptown scene. He's set to wed one of Provincetown's lovely ladies.
Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye Jill and Gabby were part of the lost summer of 1990 and went on to be a success story on the Beastie Boys label.
THE MYTHOS OF FREDDY K
(Provincetown, MA 1990) There's a kind of magnetism to this town. The raw promise of decadence, the bleached-out remains of a sixties counter culture strewn about like driftwood on the dunes, The queer-friendly atmosphere and psychic vampirism displayed unabashedly in a brief glance from within the confines of the famous Meat Rack. Celebrity names and faces, parlayed up and down Commercial Street amid the busy hum and whir of speculation: Cyndi Lauper spotted buying hardware and John Waters with his scandalous entourage of nubile Adonises flanking him like an uncharacteristically polychromatic GAP ad. Edward Gorey with his hearse-like Rolls and GORE vanity plate, Rosie O'Donnell biker gear for the dog, and a lingering spectre of Anthony Perkins fading in and out of focus, no, he isn't looking well.
At the tender age of 18 a young man can easily be led astray in an environment such as this and I found myself doing just that that summer. I was splitting my time between jobs to pay my share for a return to school in the fall, and a less traditional arrangement that enabled my illicit experimentation with various states of consciousness. continue
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