She was known as an artist and self-described recovering groupie who earned fame for creating plaster casts of well-known persons.
Cynthia was born Cynthia Albritton on May 24, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. On the contrary, with a total of 48 masterpieces, she made a name for herself in the rock music scene, and her male casts were even exhibited in the SoHo neighbourhood of New York City in 2000, as well as at the MoMA PS1 in Queens seven years later. The great artist passed away on April 21, 2022, but Cynthia Plaster Caster’s cause of death has not been announced at this time. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading PLASTER CASTERS The girls who made plaster casts of rock stars' private parts.
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Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. However, the exhibition never made it to fruition as most rock stars who volunteered to get their penis moulded wanted to bring it back home instead of leaving it for everyone to gawp at-but that didn’t mean Cynthia didn’t achieve anything. Plaster Caster 2001 1 h 30 m IMDb RATING 6.1 /10 119 YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:15 1 Video 1 Photo Documentary Comedy An intimate documentary portrait of the legendary artist and groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster, famous for plaster casting the erect penises of rock stars. Sander's Classic Rock Readers Book 2) - Kindle edition by Sander, Ellen. Some of which were Dead Kennedy’s Jello Biafra, Chris Connelly, Wayne Kramer and Jon Langford.įunnily enough, Frank Zappa also got in touch with the artist to exhibit Cynthia’s pieces. Albritton achieved celebrity status for her work: She created molds of some of the world’s biggest stars, including Jimi. The Chicago-born artist died Thursday at 74.
Many music managers, as well as rock stars, started asking for her to make a mould of their own, after Jimi Hendrix had his done. (John Connors) CHICAGO Cynthia 'Plaster Caster' Albritton, one of the most flamboyant figures of the backstage rock world in the 1960s and 1970s, who. CHICAGO Cynthia Albritton, aka Cynthia Plaster Caster, created a one-of-a-kind career and earned herself national fame by making plaster molds of rock stars’ private parts. Unlike Aynsley Dunbar from Journey, Hendrix was pretty laid back about it all. Looking back at the different men who agreed to it, Albritton says Hendrix was one of her favourites, simply because he didn’t make a big deal out of it, taking it all in his stride.
She’d been practising multiple times on her friends’ private parts, so she knew exactly what to do to get the perfect shape. The work of Albritton, who made the plaster casts using a dental mould-making substance called alginate, was immortalised in the Kiss song Plaster Caster on their 1977 album Love Gun, and via a 2001 documentary of the same name that chronicled her artistic legacy.Īlbritton passed away on April 21 this year, aged 74 years, after battling a long illness.In 1968, when he was in Chicago, Hendrix became the first artist to agree to her moulds. The experiences were equally exciting and weird and different from each other." Because they're my sweet babies and I am their mama and I'm very democratic with all my babies. But I couldn't say whether or not he's my most exciting. I had tried it on a few civilians first to be ready for Jimi. "We were the groupies that got to the hotel first and we were the only groupies in Jimi Hendrix's room. Cynthia Plaster Caster Albritton wasnt any old groupie bed-hopping her way through the rock star excess of the 60s and 70s. He was my first real rock star that dipped his dick and it was unbelievable" she explained. In conversation with Rock Scene magazine ten years ago, she reflected on the result of the casting and on which mould, out of all the rockstars that modelled for her, was her favourite. A G A G Baby's getting anxious, the hour's getting late F G D The night is almost over, she can't wait A G A G Oh, things are complicating, my love is in her hands F G D G D And there's no more waiting, she understands G D G D The plaster's gettin' harder and my love is perfection F G A A token of my love for her collection, her collection D G D G Plaster caster, grab a hold of me faster F C G.
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