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New York Waste F*** you too Issue 2016
The Glorious Revolution is the culmi- nation of Jack/Karen Curious' journey in life. One hell of a song writer, this stuff will get all the little hairs on your spine tingling...
JACK KAREN
formerly KAREN CURIOUS
music, lyrics, guitar
I'm an open proud transgender moving from the chick rocker position my whole life to an out of the closet transguy Rock-n-Roller. It's super ex- citing and my voice is changing I'm seriously like 14 as a boy right now so it should be an in- teresting new twist for sure.
I moved to NYC from Los Angeles the second time around with a band called Candy Ass. It was pretty fun until it wasn't. I also played in
Fire Gods with Sean Pierce, Allegra and Pete... we were FG4 (Fire Gods 4) that was a blast... I stayed in NYC after Candy Ass dicked me and started my own band New Profes- sionals. I recorded my sin- gle Nothin' Pretty with Barb Morrison and her partner at a home studio if I remember right... then made a video with Katrina Del Mar, even Lola Rock- nRolla was on camera crew for that too! I always planned to move back to LA but tragedy hit my life approximately 13 years ago while I was recording the first New Professionals record produced by Scott Gilman... my brother
Derek was brutally murdered and my life kind of took a nose dive for a lot of years. I kept writing songs and kept playing even though I didn't really understand why I was still walking the earth.
Early on in my life I started playing guitar when I was ten years old and became the lead singer in a rock band called SPECTRE when I was 12 years old. I have been in bands my en- tire life pretty much and don't see it really changing any time ever. Writing and playing music helps me keep my sanity in this life, that is for sure. I love NYC. I miss a lot of the rock scene but nothing stays the same so life must be about reinvention otherwise you just become a bore looking in your rearview mirror missing out on all you have to offer now and moving forward.
One person that influenced my life heavily in music was Kathy Valentine from The Go- Go's.... I played with her when I was 21 years old in Hollywood and she taught me that my talent was a gift never to be taken for granted
and showed me so many things, she's probably not even aware of the depth of her influence. I have always been grateful and never forget where I came from.
The Glorious Revolution started about 5 or 6 years ago as a band I was finally not trying to "make it" in. I spent my whole life trying to be heard by the masses then I just realized, "they'll hear me when they hear me or they won't" I just let go of all of my ideas and timelines.... I even tried to quit playing for awhile, then I re- alized music is in you or it's not and if it's in you it still happens whether you want it to or not. So I am just writing and performing when everyone can get the same time available and having a good time doing it without the pres- sures of winning a grammy one day. It would be nice and quite an achievement that I would personally cherish but Im done killing myself to make shit happen.
I love playing with Amalia, she's so brilliant! Kenny and Hitomi are a super strong and dy- namic rhythm section, we had this amazing gui- tarist Josh who I still love dearly... Maybe he'll be back maybe he won't... that's one big differ- ence in me now is that I understand how people come and go... sometimes they come back and sometimes they don't, either way, Im always grateful for the times we had and the music we made... even in the darkest hours of my music history, the making of music has always been something I have been proud of even if the peo- ple I made it with are no longer in my life. Music is bigger than we are but sometimes it can only come through us when we have rad chemistry... kind of like how we were born... our parents were the only two people would could have brought us through otherwise we wouldn't exist... whether they are still together or not.
Everything that is meant to be will be and there's nothing I can do to stop it from happen- ing or to make it happen... That is all. like my friend Meghan from Bambi Killers says, "everyone, just be yourself".
Killer Bass, KENNY CINTRON
Hairstylist by light of day, bad ass bassist by the light of dark, stylish and cool as shit Kenny “Hot Pockets” Cintron, (Detox Darlings, The Sanguin- istas,) “my favorite guitar amp combo is playing bass through a GK800rb with hartke 2x15. I get my sound by turning down the gain turning bass to 9, mid to about 3, treble at 1.
Darth Vader is my hero in fiction, Uma Thurman in Kill Bill is my heroine. My best moment of the day is early, when I wake up.
Photos: Lucky Lawler ©2016