Lance Loud photographed in his apartment on Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood, California on Oct. 11, 1991.
In the past twenty months, two gigantic films have celebrated the lives of Freddie Mercury and Elton John, musical icons who wrestled with creativity, fame, family, addiction and sexual identity.The everyday heroics of Lance Loud -- who came out of the closet not only to his family, but to national television in the '70s onthe first major U.S. reality series -- are fairly well documented, but his noteworthy musical career deserves a little more attention.
So far, it's a pretty familiar tale: An everyday suburb, an everyday garage, and a few slightly obscure records. But then came the TV cameras.was a 12-episode documentary series that presented a completely unscripted portrait of an upper middle-class family of seven in Santa Barbara. It might sound run-of-the-mill now, but nothing of the sort had ever been attempted on American television, and it was a sensation.
The Mumps never released an album during their lifetime, but their theatrical, accomplished music can be heard on the excellent 25-track compilationAlthough they played with the punch and dexterity of early Television or Voidoids, the Mumps applied this skeletal muscularity to hyper-articulate pop songs that rang with the mod cool of the Hollies or Kinks, while also containing a healthy dose of melodrama borrowed from the '60s girl groups.
Kristian Hoffman agrees that the Mumps position in the legendary downtown scene – especially their visibility at the dawn of CBGB's – has been overlooked. "Most of the people who were part of the music scene in Manhattan at that time were there because they were outcasts for one reason the other," recalls Paul Zone of the Fast , another gay veteran of the 1970s NYC punk and glam scene. "Often, being gay was the least of their problems. Everybody had something that was making them be an outcast. Being gay wasn't the worst of it, and it wasn't the best of it.
The Mumps career drew to a close at the very end of the 1970s. Shortly thereafter, Kristian Hoffman played a major role in developing the recording and performance career of another gay musical icon, Klaus Nomi, and he has gone on to consistently release his own music and work with many significant artists, including Ann Magnuson, Lydia Lunch, Rufus Wainwright and Dave Davies.
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