RICKY MAU MAU OF THE MAU MAUS!!! apparently he's my neighbor, (but not for long since he's having a yard sale). what a blast from the past. i haven't seen him since the masque days in 1978!... (actually i thought he was dead) there was so much goth and black going on @ this yard sale, RODDY VON SELDNECK, (TOALLY GOTH) would have been in heaven!
(ricky mau mau~ present day)
the most bizarre thing is that ricky was dressed exactly the same way he did at the masque...
like it was still 1978- black tights, black ankle boots with chains & scarfs wrapped around the ankles, black tuxedo jacket, with buttons & chains, make up, (i think?) and dyed white hair.... he looked all of 90 years old.. kinda like joan rivers.
here a little back story for the youngsters~
The Mau-Mau's were started in 1978 by Rick Wilder (formerly the singer of the Berlin Brats) after returning from a trip to London in 1977.
The original short lived line-up was Greg Silva on guitar, Rod Donahue on bass, and Rick Sherman on drums. They started out playing at The Masque in Hollywood. Greg was replaced by Mike R. Livingston in 1979 after Greg moved to New York and Rod was replaced first by Oscar Harvey and then by Scott Franklin (onetime bassist in The Cramps). Rick had been chosen to be MC of the Penelope Spheeris movie The Decline of Western Civilization but was dumped after he insisted he be able to say what he really thought of every act before their clip (it was probably not going to be too complimentary).
The Mau-Mau's are probably the only one of the original bands from The Masque era that do not appear in the film- The Decline of Western Civilization. Wilder’s somewhat eccentric attitude toward the record industry and the generally extreme lifestyle of the band members contributed towards a long period of obscurity despite being well known by most in the early Los Angeles punk rock scene.
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