{"id":803654,"date":"2020-01-30T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=945810"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:09:58","slug":"watch-the-residents-perform-god-in-three-persons-live-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-the-residents-perform-god-in-three-persons-live-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Residents Perform \u2018God in Three Persons\u2019 Live for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/theresidents.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last weekend, avant-garde rock collective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-residents\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-residents\" data-tag=\"the-residents\">the Residents<\/a> staged their 1988 concept album, <i>God in Three Persons<\/i>, live for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The performance found the band teaming with visual artist John Sanborn and director Travis Chamberlain, and now videos from the show have surfaced online (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/the-residents-brought-god-in-3-persons-to-moma-pics-video-playing-lpr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brooklyn Vegan<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>God in Three Persons<\/i>, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.residents.com\/historical\/?page=godinthreepersons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Residents\u2019 website<\/a> details, tells the story of a slick talent manager named Mr. X who discovers a pair of Siamese twins with special healing powers and takes them on the road as \u201choly healers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mr. X eventually starts to lust after the \u201cfemale\u201d twin, but discovers both twins are actually gender fluid and, not to mention, far savvier than they let on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In order to reassert his control, Mr. X \u201cplots a vicious rape\u201d and splits the twins apart, and the story\/album ends with him realizing that his feelings for the twins \u201cwere not being imposed on him by [them], but came from within himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-NoeBxvSO-s?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Fan-shot videos from the MoMA performance (and a review of a Bay Area preview in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/oakland\/confounding-expectations-for-more-than-50-years\/Content?oid=28565964\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>East Bay Express<\/em><\/a>) offer a glimpse into how the Residents finally brought this show to life. On stage were the Residents, characteristically clad in masks, joined by singer and keyboard player Laurie Amant. There were two actors, one playing Mr. X, who narrates the show, and another essentially playing a shadow of Mr. X, who provides a physical\/dance accompaniment to the spoken narrative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The final element was Sanborn\u2019s multi-layered video projections, which mixed psychedelic animation and featured footage of the twins, portrayed by the performance artist Jiz Lee. (Additional videos can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3xODFvA6pLkJi5hz-MLjsw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube page<\/a> L Ron Jesus.)<\/p>\n<p><!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I2-2z0UsJ_k?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Later this spring, the Residents will embark on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.residents.com\/tourdates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dog Stab! tour<\/a>, which kicks off April 16th at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland and wraps with three nights at the Chapel in San Francisco, May 14th through 16th. The band has continued to tour and perform in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-residents-hardy-fox-dead-749872\/\">October 2018 death<\/a> of Hardy Fox, a founding member and the Residents\u2019 main composer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-residents-god-in-three-persons-performance-video-live-945810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, avant-garde rock collective the Residents staged their 1988 concept album, God in Three Persons, live for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The performance found the band teaming with visual artist John Sanborn and director Travis Chamberlain, and now videos from the show have surfaced online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 04:46:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}