Fifty Foot Hose interview - 1994 Read the story behind the
interview  (The following originally appeared in Interrobang?!
#2)  Interrobang?!: How long was Fifty Foot Hose actually
together?  Cork: We were together, let's see, the end of 1966
until 1970. We stopped playing formally in '69 when everyone in
the band, with the exception of me, went into the cast of Hair.
Nancy (Blossom) was the female lead in the SF production of
Hair. (Kim) Kimsey became the drummer. Dave (Blossom) was not
only the guitarist in the band, but he got to do this total
freak out stage thing. I made a choice that I'd go to grad
school for my art work, because the idea of playing exactly the
same music for two years, six times a week-I couldn't do it.
Plus-it was also like the end of this...our crusade had been to
really try to make a new music.  I: You used a lot of cool
electronic gadgets. What sort of things did you build yourself?
Cork: We took apart Dave's Gretsch guitar and I think it was the
first synthesized guitar ever. We b