Again, I'm sorry if Plaster has had the experiences she describes but they were in no way typical of how Robert and John treated young women. I don't think John could have been a misogynist either as I can't imagine how that would have fit in with the strong and loving relationship he had with Pat. Some women who knew him when they were young fans describe him as an "older brother" type of guy. And Bonzo, yes, he did engage in certain sorts of destructive behavior when he was drinking heavily but I never heard any tales of him hurting a young woman/girl fan. Cynthia Plaster Caster Albritton, an avid music fan who became infamous in the ’60s and ’70s for her plaster casts of rock stars’ erect penises, has died after a long illness. Every other woman I've met who spent any amount of time with Robert (even during his "hell raising" years with LZ) describes him so differently - the complete opposite of how the Plaster Caster depicts him. She is the first and only woman who (at least as far as I've read) has called Robert a misogynist.
I'm very sorry to read about the Plaster Caster's experiences with the band. They were really famous: It had gone to their heads. Just the ones that were involved: John Bonham, Richard Cole and Robert Plant. But it was the most horrible experience I ever had. I can't go into more detail because I am saving it for my book, my autobiography. But I did have a horrible experience with Led Zeppelin. I think that rumor came from Hammer of the Gods, and that's not true. Cynthia Albritton, más conocida como Cynthia Plaster Caster, a finales de los sesenta y durante la década siguiente no fue una groupie cualquiera.
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Livewire: But was that incident with Zeppelin what made you throw in the groupie towel, at least for awhile?Ĭynthia: Let's just say that it made me much more cautious about going into strange men's hotel rooms.Ĭarli - I read the passage in Pamela Des Barnes' book I'm With the Band about how one of the casters was in a tub full of baked beans with a Led Zeppelin member. Cynthia Albritton (right), aka Cynthia Plaster Caster, and super-groupie and author Pamela Des Barres in front of the movie poster for The Banger Sisters at the film’s premiere in 2002 in. Could you explain what happened?Ĭynthia: Yeah, but you know what? I'm kind of reserving that for my book. Livewire: I read that before you temporarily quit your profession as penis caster / groupie in the '70s that you had a violent hotel room experience with Led Zeppelin. Not all of the band, it was mostly John, Robert, and their road manager Richard. Rather than embrace groupies, they raped and pillaged their way across America.
What was the incident that occurred in a hotel room with Led Zeppelin? She launched a long-shot, unsuccessful bid for Chicago mayor in 2010 under the “Hard Party” banner.10. In 2000 she exhibited her plasterpieces at a SoHo gallery, followed by another showing in 2017 at the MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. And while the hirsute avant garde guitarist/composer did not submit himself for casting, he paid for Albritton to move to Los Angeles, where she began making her unique sculptures.Ĭaster was the subject of the 2001 doc Plaster Caster, and was famously memorialized herself in the Kiss song “Plaster Caster” from the group’s 1977 Love Gun album (sample lyric: “The plaster’s gettin’ harder/ And my love is perfection/ A token of my love/ For her collection”). Soon after she found a patron in gonzo rocker Frank Zappa, who was not interested in sitting for one of her unique sessions. The budding artist and rock fan decided to try memorializing erect male phalluses using a dental-molding substance, with Hendrix agreeing to be her first subject.
She later branched out into casting female body parts as well, making breast casts of members of Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Peaches, members of L7 and the Demolition Doll Rods and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, among others.Īlbritton, born on in Chicago, hit upon her unique artistic lane in college when a professor asked the class to cast a solid object the could retain its shape. Doja Cat Call Out Noah Schnapp For Blowing Up Her 'Stranger Things' Spot: 'When You're That Young…
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