![]() I'm really happy that people want to get cast. Your work is so heavily identified with the '60s. And then it was always helpful if they were good-looking too! I've actually been sexually stimulated by the sound of a really sexy tune it would draw me to men, more than their looks sometimes. It could have something to do with the beat, which resembles a good fuck sometimes. Why are sex and rock 'n' roll so intertwined? What's wrong with being attracted to sexy men who make fabulous music and are really smart? And occasionally are fabulous in bed! And they're in total denial about being groupies, and I think that's pathetic. There's a lot of legitimate groupies they want to have sex with musicians but they have jobs related to music. I don't think you even always have sex to be called a groupie. I read one that said a groupie is a young girl who pursues musicians in order to have sex with them. There are different definitions in different dictionaries. Hell no! Well, It does have a stigma attached to it, but it really shouldn't. You don't have a problem with the word "groupie"? Not that I'm about to join Groupies Anonymous anytime soon. Even though I may not be actively a groupie at all times, I feel like I've got groupie in my blood. What is a groupie and what isn't a groupie? That is a long, involved answer. Which label is more appropriate?īoth equally. You've been described as a groupie and as an artist. Above all, she doesn't shy away from discussing her encounters with favorite rockers and their not-so-private parts. She doesn't have a boyfriend, but "there are some cutie-pies out there that I'm acquainted with," she says. Now 53, with auburn-and-blond streaked hair, Cynthia doesn't look a day over 35. She recently dusted off her phallic castings for an exhibit, which runs through July 29 at New York's Thread Waxing Space, and a new documentary titled "Plaster Caster" will be released in 2001. ![]() Her recent subjects include Momus, Jello Biafra, Jon Langford of the Mekons and Ronnie Barnett of the Muffs and she has her eye on Jarvis Cocker of Pulp. While being a groupie and plaster casting are still heavily identified with the rock excesses of the '60s, Cynthia is, in fact, still relatively active in her hobby. Later, she was the subject of the 1977 Kiss song "Plaster Caster" and Frank Zappa became her patron. Soon, she was meeting rock legends from Keith Moon to Jimi Hendrix (the largest cast in her collection). (She succeeded on another level, however, when she lost her virginity that weekend to lead singer Mark Lindsay.) She was hooked: Handing out her "Plaster Caster" calling cards was enough to set her ahead of the groupie pack.Īfter experimenting with different casting materials including wax, clay and aluminum foil, she perfected her technique with dental alginates. Cynthia didn't succeed in casting anyone that weekend, but her plaster casting supplies got her introduced to Paul Revere and the Raiders. She's just a woman with a sly sense of humor and a passion for rock 'n' roll - and men.īack in 1966, when she was a 19-year-old art college student (and frustrated virgin) in Chicago, her professor gave Cynthia a weekend assignment to make a plaster cast of "something solid." She and one of her aspiring groupie friends knew what they had to do next. She doesn't glorify what she - and her artwork - is all about. Her work is not a commentary on the sexual revolution, she says, nor a statement about the nature of celebrity. ![]() Cynthia Plaster Caster became famous in the 1960s for making plaster casts of rock stars' penises, and she's honest about what inspired her. ![]()
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