Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!

[substitute]

I'm a Nazi! I'm a Satanist! I'm a pirate! I'm a vampire! I'm a...

http://www.boydrice.com/

Musical innovator? Sure. Ahead of his time? Definitely. Culturally prescient? Uh-huh.

Annoying? Ohhh yeahhh. As an attention-getting device, "is he or isn't he a Nazi" almost beats G.G. Allin's "is he or isn't he going to kill me on stage". This way to der Egress! Also, hail Satan, etc.

But he did sort of invent modern electronic noise music.

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[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

I recall picking up Re/Search Pranks many years ago, and finding the Boyd Rice interview the most inspiring part of the book. The guy's a brilliant prankster, in a sociopathic sort of way.

indeed

[substitute.livejournal.com]

I think he's modeled himself on Aleister Crowley, another entertaining rogue with a flair for publicity.

Re: indeed

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Also GG Allin ate people's shit on stage. I mean, literally, not in the sense of acknowledging their disapprobrium, though there was that too.