Zoogz Rift

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Zoogz Rift (born July 10, 1953 in Paterson , New Jersey as Robert Pawlikowski , † March 22, 2011 ) was an American musician ( vocals , guitar ), painter and professional wrestling promoter.

biography

Musical career

The Trouser Press describes Zoogz Rift as an " iconoclastic original", as "both imaginative and stimulating as well as irritating and biting ..., a reactionary whose paranoia too often distracted from the experimental oomph and exotic charm of his music". This is explained by his main intellectual influences: artistically Salvador Dali and literarily Ayn Rand . Musically, the guitarist / singer is often compared to Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa . While he was still emulating Zappa on his early recordings, he has excelled in recent years through extremely productive work in his own artistic field. Richard Gehr writes in SPIN Magazine that by the 1985 album Interim Resurgence , Rift had undergone a complete transformation from “Zappa salivary” to its very own “conceptual continuity” (Zappa idiom for “own, coherent concept”). He released his first album Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course (dedicated to Don Van Vliet ) in 1979 on Snout Records. This is where the long-term collaboration with Richie Häss , John Trubee (also a member of Ugly Janitors of America ) and the slide guitarist Scott Colby began . He worked with the SST Records label until the album Torment (1989) , after which he switched to Trigon and the German label Musical Tragedies . The Keyboard Magazine described in a special issue Experimental Music Rifts Album Iceland of Living Puke (1986) (including with Henry Kaiser ) as "Moments Of outstanding free-form rock, surrounded by meticulously obscene interruptions". His last official album Born in the Wrong Universe (2001) was produced by Arthur Barrow , who also played keyboards and sitar.

Wrestling career

From 1985 Zoogz Rift hinted at his plans to get into professional wrestling . He was booked by the UWF ( Universal Wrestling Federation ) in 1993 , but gave up his doctorate in March 1994 to return in May 1995 and become Vice President of the UWF alongside Herb Abrams . After Abrams' death in 1996, the UWF was dissolved and Rift was left without a job. He started hosting an online wrestling show (Puke-A-Mania) that rated weekly WWE and TNA promotions, while Zoogz Rift gave insight into wrestling topics. During his tirades on the show, he vigorously promoted the former WWF superstar Warlord and expressed his fascination for a possible training with the then 60-year-old Vince McMahon to turn him into a professional wrestler. He claimed that due to his extensive wrestling experience, he could train anyone with the technique of the golden crab , as reported in episode # 3 of Puke-A-Mania.

death

Zoogz Rift died on March 22, 2011 at the age of 57 from severe complications of diabetes that he had battled for well over a decade.

Discography

Studio albums
  • With No Apparent Reason (1976)
  • Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course (1979)
  • Amputees in Limbo (1982)
  • Music Sucks (1982)
  • Can You Smell My Genitals From Where You're Standing? (1983)
  • None of Your Damn Business! (1983)
  • The Diseased Confessions of Moamo Milkman (1984)
  • Ipecac (1984)
  • Interim Resurgence (1985)
  • Island of Living Puke (1986)
  • Water (1987)
  • Water II: At Safe Distance (1987)
  • Son of Puke (1987)
  • Nonentity (Water III: Fan Black Dada) (1988)
  • Murdering Hell's Happy Cretins (1988)
  • Torment (1989)
  • War Zone (1990)
  • Nutritionally Sound (1991)
  • Villagers (1992)
  • 5 Billion Pinheads Can't Be Wrong (1996)
  • School of the Criminally Insane (1999)
  • Born in the Wrong Universe (2001)
Compilations
  • Kiss My Bleeding Dork (1984)
  • Looser Than Clams ... A Historical Retrospective (1986)
  • This Is the Music Your Parents Warned You About, Vol. 1 (1995)
  • This Is the Music Your Parents Warned You About, Vol. 2 (1995)
  • This Is the Music Your Parents Warned You About, Vol. 3 (1996)
  • Sunken Treasures: The Very Best of Zoogz Rift (2000)
  • Demons Are Stabbing Me With Pitchforks (2000)
  • Dada Is Surrealism With a Sinister Agenda (2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zoogz Rift , Allmusic . Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ Richard Gehr, Ira Robbins: Zoogz Rift . In: Trouser Press . Trouser Press LLC. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ Richard Gehr: Spins . In: SPIN Magazine (ed.): Spin . 1, No. 8, New York, December 1985, p. 27. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  4. ↑ Zoogz Rift , Allmusic . Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  5. ^ Dominic, editor Milano: Resources . In: Keyboard , January 1987, p. 85. 
  6. ^ Zoogz Rift , Discogs . Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  7. ↑ Aaron Rift, NoDQ.com
  8. ^ Puke-A-Mania # 3
  9. ↑ Zoogz Rift RIP Dangerous Minds., March 22, 2012, accessed September 3, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Rift, Zoogz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pawlikowski, Robert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, painter, and wrestling promoter
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Paterson , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 2011