The Druds

The Druds was a short-lived 1963 avant-garde noise music band founded by Andy Warhol,[1] that featured prominent members of the New York proto-conceptual art and minimal art community. The band's noise rock sound has been compared to that of Henry Flynt and/or The Primitives, the band that featured the first collaboration of Lou Reed and John Cale, who would soon form The Velvet Underground.[2]

## Band members[edit]

Minimalist sculptor Walter De Maria played drums, painter Larry Poons played guitar, and minimal composer La Monte Young played the saxophone (but finding it ridiculous, quit after the second rehearsal);[3] artist and poet Patty Mucha (then Patty Oldenburg, as she was married to sculptor Claes Oldenburg) was the lead singer.[4] Jasper Johns wrote neodada lyrics as did Warhol who also occasionally sang.[5] Warhol wrote the songs The Alphabet Song, Movie Stars, Hollywood and Coca-Cola.[6][7][4] Happening artist Gloria Graves[8] and Lucas Samaras also sang with the group.[9]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol:  A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
2. ^ [1] Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Workat the Frist Center for the Visual Arts by Robert Stalker
3. ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol:  A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
4. ^ a b Russeth, Andrew (2012-01-16). "Six Feet of the 1960s and '70s: Patty Mucha—Once Mrs. Oldenburg—on Her Archives and New Memoir | Gallerist NY". GalleristNY. Archived from the original on 2012-01-23. Retrieved 2022-04-26.
5. ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol:  A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
6. ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol:  A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
7. ^ [2] Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Workat the Frist Center for the Visual Arts by Robert Stalker
8. ^ Blake Gopnik, Warhol:  A Life as Art London: Allen Lane. March 5, 2020. ISBN 978-0-241-00338-1 p. 297
9. ^ [3] FROM WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT The Velvet Underground DAY BY DAY

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Artworks|

* 129 Die in Jet! (1962)
* Campbell's Soup Cans (1962)
* Coca-Cola (3) (1962)
* Coca-Cola (4) (1962)
* Marilyn Diptych (1962)
* Men in Her Life (1962)
* 3 Coke Bottles (1962)
* Gold Marilyn Monroe (1962)
* Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962)
* Eight Elvises (1963)
* Colored Mona Lisa (1963)
* Ethel Scull 36 Times (1963)
* Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963)
* Green Car Crash (1963)
* Triple Elvis (1963)
* Suicide (Purple Jumping Man) (1963)
* Thirteen Most Wanted Men (1964)
* Shot Marilyns (1964)
* Race Riot (1964)
* Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966)
* Cow Wallpaper (1966)
* Big Electric Chair (1967)
* Marilyn Monroe portfolio (1967)
* Campbell's Soup Cans II (1969)
* Vote McGovern (1972)
* Athletes (1977)
* Shadows (1978-79)
* Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)
* Crosses (1981)
* Jean-Michel Basquiat  (1982)
* Magazine and History (1983)
* Speed Skater (1983)
* Orange Prince (1984)
* Olympics (1984)
* Taxi, 45th/Broadway (1984-85)
* The Last Supper (1984-1986)
* Zenith (1985)
* Portrait of Seymour H. Knox (1985)
* Reigning Queens (1985)
* Camouflage Self-Portrait (1986)
* Cars (1986)

Films|

* Kiss (1963)
* Eat (1963)
* Blow Job (1964)
* Sleep (1964)
* Screen Tests (1964–1966)
* Batman Dracula (1964)
* Soap Opera (1964)
* Couch (1964)
* Taylor Mead's Ass (1964)
* Henry Geldzahler (1964)
* Harlot (1964)
* Empire (1965)
* Vinyl (1965)
* Horse (1965)
* Space (1965)
* Camp (1965)
* Poor Little Rich Girl (1965)
* Beauty No. 1 (1965)
* Beauty No. 2 (1965)
* More Milk, Yvette (1965)
* The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
* My Hustler (1965)
* Kitchen (1966)
* Eating Too Fast (1966)
* The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966)
* Salvador Dalí (1966)
* Chelsea Girls (1966)
* Since (1966)
* The Andy Warhol Story (1966)
* I, a Man (1967)
* Bike Boy (1967)
* Four Stars**** (1967)
* Imitation of Christ (1967)
* Tub Girls (1967)
* The Nude Restaurant (1967)
* Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
* San Diego Surf (1968)
* Flesh (1968)
* Blue Movie (1969)
* Trash (1969)
* Women in Revolt (1970)
* Heat (1972)
* L'Amour (1973)
* Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
* Bad (1977)
* You Are the One (1985)

Books|

* 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954)
* a, A Novel (1968)
* Blue Movie (1970)
* The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)
* Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980)
* The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989)

Other|

* Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes (TV series)
* Andy Warhol's Pork (play)
* Interview (magazine)
* "15 minutes of fame"
* "Misfit" (music video)

Milieu|

* The Factory
* The Velvet Underground
* Warhol Superstars
* Studio 54
* New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre
* 55th Street Playhouse

Museums|

* The Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh)
* Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art (Medzilaborce)

Depictions|

* "Andy Warhol" (1971 song)
* Dos Cabezas (1982 painting)
* Andy Mouse (1986 screenprints)
* Basquiat (1996 film)
* I Shot Andy Warhol (1996 film)
* Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006 documentary)
* Factory Girl (2006 film)
* The Andy Warhol Diaries (2022 docuseries)

Family|

* Julia Warhola (mother)
* John Warhola (brother)
* James Warhola (nephew)

Related|

* Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board
* Golden Age of Porn
* Moon Museum
* The Druds
* The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol (1971)
* Absolut Warhola  (2001 film)
* Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off) (2016 documentary)
* Songs for Drella (1990 album)
* Andy Warhol Bridge
* Warhol (biography)

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