I think it's just when I've read about the 'weirdo' punk acts that came out of California at that time, the Screamers always gets mentioned before or over Nervous Gender and I could never understand why, I suppose it has a lot to do with Tomata du Plenty's stage performance which always comes off as a little too cartoonish for what I look for in a front person, guess it just grates against my aesthetics. You did ask !
Now what I did think was the interesting twist in all this is that Tomata du Plenty .....
'Few in L.A.’s original punk scene were aware that Du Plenty’s adroitness at theater came from an earlier time. At the zenith of San Francisco’s Flower Power movement he visited the Haight-Ashbury district of the city in 1968 as a twenty-year-old and became a member of the psychedelic drag queen troupe,
The Cockettes. Founded by the transplanted New Yorker
George Harris (1949-1982), the ensemble was extremely influential, helping to usher in not just the modern Gay Liberation movement, but Glam Rock as well. In 1969 Du Plenty moved to Seattle, Washington, where he founded a similar street performance group, Ze Whiz Kidz.
A rare film clip from 1971 shows Du Plenty and his ensemble (including Melba Toast, who was to become Tommy Gear in the Screamers), performing at Seattle’s University District Street Fair. This direct connection to the underground countercultural movement of the late 1960s cannot be discounted.'
this info came from this blog..
http://art-for-a-change.com/blog/2014/05/who-was-tomata-du-plenty.html
