Cynthia Albritton, set of ‘Plaster Caster’, dead at 74

Cynthia Albritton, the group known for taking plaster casts of famous rock star penises, has died at the age of 74 afterwards. It said Fights “prolonged disease”.

The Chicago native found her hobby while in college. A regular attendee at the concert, she initially had difficulty introducing herself to the bands.

“I was a shy, boisterous, and awkward virgin who wanted nice British boys with long hair and tight pants to be attracted to her,” she recalls. rocky scenery magazine in 2012. “But I wasn’t seasoned or seductive, and the only way I could get the zipper off was, it had to be in a funny, funny way.”

The inspiration struck a young music lover during one of her art classes.

“When my art teacher asked me to make a plaster cast as homework for something that could hold its shape. “Something solid,” she explained. “And I heard through the grapevine that the penis had become solid, although I had yet to witness that happen.”

It didn’t take Albritton long to find her first subject.

I took it up with Mark Lindsay Paul Revere and the Invaders, who was in town that very night.” “And he was happy to help me with my homework, except that the material the art teacher asked me to use to make the negative impression was sand and water, which would not make a solid state of the rod.” But that’s fine, not important. More importantly, I lost my virginity to Mark Lindsay only as a result of talking about it.”

So he began a unique hybrid between the fan collective and experimental art that spanned decades. Albritton has become known as Cynthia “Plaster Caster”, a legend in music circles. Albritton enjoyed its reputation and rarely had trouble finding volunteers.

“Back then, during the sexual revolution, you had a social obligation to submerge your penis in something new and different,” she said. “And we had something different for diving.”

Jimi HendrixWayne Kramer from MC5And Jane Simmons from Kiss One of the most famous cast was Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks.

And if not one of her subjects, Frank Zappa She befriended Albritton and helped move her to Los Angeles in order to pursue an art exhibition. After her apartment was robbed in 1971, Albritton agreed to give the cast to Zappa’s business partner, Herb Cohen, for safekeeping. This later proved problematic, as Cohen, in a strange turn of events, refused to take it back. The speech ended up in court, with Albritton eventually having all but three of its representatives back.

There have been many tributes to Albritton over the years. In 1977, Kiss released the song “Plaster Caster” inspired by the group. The path included lines like: “Gypsum is getting harder / And my love is perfect / Token of my love / For her collection, her collection.” Jim CrossAlbritton’s song “Five Short Minutes” was also inspired by lyrics such as: “Well, like an asshole in a hurry, I took her to my room/ She threw me a plaster while I sang her a tune.”

Her collection has reportedly swelled to over 100 pieces, with filmmakers and artists adding to the mix. Later in her career, Albritton made a cast of rock star boobs, with L7’s Susie Gardner and Karen O Yes, between them.

“I don’t like to play the favourite,” Albritton once said He confessed From her famous team. “I love them all. And the experiences were all exciting and weird and different from each other.”