Gallery
FKB Photos that weren't included in Jester Prince
Oregon Country Fair, Chumleighland stage, 1976
l to r, Roberto Morganti, Molly "Molly Guena" Mason, Howard "Ivan Karamazov" Patterson, Peggy "Spike Wilder" Wendel, Maida Belove (?), Paul "Dmitri Karamazov" Magid, Randy "Alyosha Karamazov" Nelson, Tim "Fyodor Karamazov" Furst
reprinted from Fair Family News
The Apple Trick, at a San Francisco street fair, 1976
l to r, Howard Patterson, Paul Magid
We just graduated from UC Santa Cruz and moved to San Francisco with Randy and Tim. We're juggling two apples and an Italian throwing hatchet, while eating the apples. Hatchet is in the air far left, Apple 1 mid-air left of center, Apple 2 in Paul's hand.
reprinted from San Francisco Chronicle
"The Question Game", from Rosencrantz and Guildentstern are Dead by Sir Tom Stoppard,
while juggling, on the Path at Oregon Country Fair, maybe 1975
Publicity photo at Kezar Stadium, right next to our apartment in San Francisco, 1976
l to r, Randy Nelson, Howard Patterson, Paul Magid, holding some of the hardware we juggled
Like early Beatles, we thought we needed to dress alike onstage: berets, scarves, vests
A ridiculous industrial, in Florida, for Adidas
They gave us a bag full of weird shoes that kept us shod for years
At the Santa Cruz Spring Fair, 1978
l to r, Howard on Euphonium, Randy on Alto Horn, Paul on clarinet, playing "Over the Waves"
We're accompanying Tim, who is manipulating cigar boxes center stage
A lot of costume evolution in the last two years – we're wearing Stupid Hats instead of berets, but are still wearing Navy pants instead of the trademark Stupid Pants that we'll soon adopt. Renaissance Fair shirts.
I've grown a beard and gotten contacts, and we all realized we were good enough as performers that we could stop cutting our hair to try to be less unacceptable to the general population
At Dudley Riggs' ETC, Minneapolis, Minnesota, our first regular theatre gig, 1978
Hair is longer, Stupid Hats and Stupid Pants, vintage tailcoats from Ragstock.
l to r, Howard Patterson, Paul Magid. Dudley's is where we first got to do a full evening stage show "with all the bells and whistles," moving things around and messing with the variables night after night until we really had it at full power. We were still playing the Renaissance Festival during the day, driving an hour into town to do the show, then driving back that night
After our first Karamazov exploration of the Mysterious East Coast, Seiza and I drove Rebo's Volvo station wagon Wohlberg west across the country. Stopping in Louisiana, Seiza snapped this polaroid portrait, which I've always thought would be a fantastic album cover.
The swamp is on fire!
Drawing from the Wall Street Journal's front page article about the "New Vaudeville movement." December 6, 1985 top row l to r, Paul Magid, Howard Patterson. bottom row l to r, Randy Nelson, Tim Furst, Sam Williams
At some point in the early or mid '80s, we stopped the bus somewhere in North America and our stage manager, Peter Dansky, took some portraits in front of a brick wall. New Alchemy Institute was a big part of my inspiration to go into The Show Business, as the most available route for finding the funding to follow their lead and found a civilization.
Judging from Randy's relaxing perm, it was not long after a run of Comedy of Errors,
in which we attempted to match his long straight hair to his "twin" Sam Williams' fuzz fest.
Paul Magid
Sam Williams
One of my favorite photos ever. From the Lincoln Center run of Comedy of Errors, the wonderful New York Times review. Those faces!
Sarah Krulwich's photo is truly world class. Not identified in the caption are bottom row, l to r, Danny Mankin and Karla Burns.