Ralph took me to a lot of interesting shows when I was a teenager. We saw Hasil Adkins's one man band, and I was fascinated to see this crazed hillbilly perform for a bunch of kids with crazy colored mohawks. Here he is doing She Said around that same time, the song popularized by The Cramps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZe2hy7Rbk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZe2hy7Rbk
The best aesthetic lesson came from some other show, I forget the music but I'll never forget the visual. There was a woman with long drak curly hair in a turquoise tanktop and a patterned orangey skirt, socks with sandals but somehow super chic. I had always matched colors and had a very narrow minded view of palettes. Nothing here matched but she was perfectly beautiful, an eclectic palette much richer than anything I'd seen before. I was about fifteen or sixteen, and it was an eye opening artistic revelation from one of many funky nights out with Ralph Doyle.
