Fayette Hauser is author of the book “The Cocokettes: Acid Drag And Sexual Anarchy”. Fayette was a founding member, and her book chronicles the wildly gender-bending 1960’s San Francisco theatrical group whose existence spawned disco star Sylvester and informed everyone from John Waters to RuPaul. Fayette’s been involved in every countercultural youth movement that’s occurred in the past fifty years- her life story is wild that this is the second of two episodes.She was a beatnik teenager in Greenwich Village, a hippie free spirit in Haight- Ashbury and in the late 1970’s was an integral part of both Manhattan’s Lower East Side punk scene and the Los Angeles punk scene, living with legendary LA band The Screamers. In this episode, hostess Pleasant Gehman swap anecdotes about the CBGB in the mid-1970’s, where Blondie and The Ramones both opened for Fayette’s underground drag theater. They discuss the early days of punk rock pioneering on The Bowery, living at the Screamers’ extremely haunted “Wilton Hilton” and their incredible live shows, plus Dangerhouse Records, Black Randy, The Germs, and Francisco sensations The Avengers...not to mention what it was like dating Dee Dee Ramone

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