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to Shep Gordon , who immediately became their manager . The next day the band went back to Frank Zappa and told him that Shep was now their manager and Shep made a deal with Frank ’ s record label .
Frank said the charm of their band was that of being a garage band . They tuned up their instruments and told the band that whatever music they got together by the time he got back , that was to be their album . When Frank came back at 5:15 and picked up the recording , that music became “ Pretties For You ”. Lester Banks reviewed the album but did not like it — he thought it was a tragic waste of plastic .
The band was hated in LA in the early days , so they left LA , living out of suitcases on the road . Shep got them a gig at the Saugatuck Pop Festival in Detroit for $ 2000 . The band performed after Iggy Pop and the Stooges , and having to be the following act , could not overpower them , so they had to use theatrics , which no one was doing at the time . The band got a standing ovation and they said it felt like coming home . Detroit was open to what they had to offer .
Shep helped put together The Toronto Rock Revival and had the band open up right before John Lennon . The stadium was packed , and they knew they had to do something spectacular . At the end of the show , the idea was to open up three feather pillows with a C02 cartridge to make it look like snow . For some reason , there was a chicken backstage and Alice threw it into the crowd . The audience tore it into pieces and threw it back on stage with its bloody head and feathers . They killed a chicken in front of 70 000 hippies . The crowd fell silent . They had become the most notorious band at that moment and suddenly everyone wanted to know
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