KORN became the soundtrack for a generation’s arrival as a snarling, thrashing, systemically-restrained freak show.” The FADER notes, “There was an unexpected opening in the pop landscape and KORN articulated a generational coming-of-angst for a claustrophobic, self-surveilled consciousness. It was a record that would pioneer a genre, while the band’s enduring success points to a larger cultural moment. "All of a sudden, as I was playing, a shoe whizzed by me," she says.KORN changed the world with the release of their self-titled debut album. Gator's, a Riviera Beach bar/concert hall now known as Daytona's, and the woman who had thrown her shoe had had a little too much to drink. "She has insulted people to the point where they've taken off shoes and thrown them at her," he says.īut Prankster says this was a one-time incident at A.L. The vulgarity that is used, it's just, unh, not acceptable. Phillip McGuckian, general manager of O'Brien's restaurant in Annapolis, says Prankster is welcome "to dine, to have drinks, to say hi. A newspaper editor in high school and a writer since age 13, Prankster says: "Music was just an extension of that."ĭespite her devotion, her music is not welcomed in some venues, including a few in her hometown. John Irving's 1989 book, "A Prayer for Owen Meany," is one of the more influential works she's read, and Irving and Dorothy Parker are two of her favorite writers.
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As influenced as she is musically by professional musicians such as the Pixies and local Annapolis punk band the Hated, Prankster considers herself "a writer first and foremost." Prankster found the name in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book chronicling their escapades, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."
"Mary Prankster" is a play on "Merry Pranksters," the group of hippies, including author Ken Kesey, who traveled around in the '60s dropping LSD, mostly in California. In "Blue Skies," she sings this line: "But I built up so much character I have an alter ego." This alter identity is what she used to call her "evil alter ego," the one that used to come out when she was drunk, and about five years ago she named it "Mary Prankster." "He had a whole persona built around that name, and no one asked him where he went to high school." "It's just like when David Bowie was Ziggy Stardust," she says. She would "rather not" reveal her real name and she'd "rather not" reveal where she went to school, because she likes the mystery. Prankster won't talk much about her private life. The CD is sold at venues such at Tower Records in Annapolis and Rockville, Ocean's 2 in Annapolis and the Sound Garden in Baltimore.
Prankster has played "Blue Skies" atop WHFS (99.1-FM) vans parked at interstate rest stops and has made appearances at the Inner Harbor, drawing "huge crowds," according to Brutus.
In the last month, she has been promoting "Blue Skies," produced by the same label that launched the now-famous Jimmy's Chicken Shack (that band has since signed with Rocket Records, Elton John's label).
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