Many years ago (around 1980) I was a young lad in a Band known as Crystal Mythos. (The name of the band was derived from an Ink Drawing I did of Great Cthulhu with Crystal Eyes.) This Band was a crazy three piece unit doing our own progressive thing – somewhat of a blend of King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rush, Black Sabbath and ELP – quite the unusual sound for Miami in 1980!
We were quite crazy, I must say. We practiced out of a warehouse in West Miami, and I was notorious for building Cannons and Flash-pots (featured in other areas of this Blog). Being a huge fan of Horror and Sci-fi Movies, I built myself a “Space Monkey” outfit. This was made of Black Shag Carpet, a Latex Mask with custom fit lenses that glowed red when hit by car lights, Claws from the movie, The Fly – and the occasional Smoke Bomb that I would fit into the mouthpiece of the mask. We would drive in our roadie’s van to different locations in Miami (usually, the more Spanish area of Hialeah) and we would do “Hit-and-Run” visits to apartment complexes just after darkness, in which I would dress up in the “Space Monkey” outfit, jump out of the van after we were parked around the corner, and jump out from behind bushes, scaring those who dared to look. During one of these events, a woman who was washing a pot on her front porch, dropped the pan with a loud crash and screamed so loud that just about all the doors to the different apartments opened at the same time to see something really bizarre run around the corner behind the bushes… At any rate, I take great pride in knowing that I most likely helped to start the Chupacabra Craze in Miami ;)
No Iguanas were actually harmed...
No Iguanas were actually harmed...
That must have been fun!
ReplyDeleteOh, how fun!
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