Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is primarily known, and rightly thus, as a significant playwright and acting professional. He was also — only if briefly — a rock and roll musician, and has already established some interesting organizations with major rock and roll performers. He was a drummer in the Holy Modal Rounders for his or her third recording, the crazed, cacophonous Indian Battle Whoop on ESP in 1967. Holy Modal Rounders mainstay Peter Stampfel offers recalled that Shepard isn’t around the LP’s cover shot because Shepard, like a declaration against the hippie period, had become a crewcut in the elevation of the summertime of like. ESP owner Bernard Stollman therefore wouldn’t normally put him around the sleeve, since it was the incorrect haircut for the band’s picture. Stampfel in addition has stated that at one stage, when the periods for the next (and never-completed) Holy Modal Rounders record on Elektra had been running into difficulty, he was informed the fact that record will be recorded only when Shepard constructed an LP-length musical humor piece for the music group. That task was never satisfied. Shepard got an affair with Patti Smith in the first ’70s, years before she became a documenting artist, and both co-wrote a play, Cowboy Mouth area, where Smith acted. Shepard also do some composing for Bob Dylan’s ill-fated documentary cum-fictionalized actuality film Renaldo and Clara, and co-wrote a tune with Dylan, “Brownsville Female,” on Dylan’s Knocked Out Packed album.