| Cantankerous, retired street poet from Flushing, New York, who recorded an album at WFMU radio studios in 1997 with a strange array of session rockers (including home recording legend R. Stevie Moore, Chris Butler of the Waitresses, and Dennis Diken of the Smithereens).
His real name is Murray Wachsman, but everyone knows him as Bingo Gazingo. This eponymous CD reveals Gazingo as a dazzling wordsmith of Beefheartian proportions, whose wry lyrics reward close scrutiny on a literary level. Also like Beefheart, he recited his lyrics without listening to what the band was playing behind him, causing an arrhythmic disconnect between words and music. Titles include “Up Your Jurassic Park,” “I Love You So Fucking Much I Can’t Shit,” “Two Pack Shaker,” and “Oh Madonna (You Stole My Pants).”
Bingo has, in recent years, done some recording and touring with a wired-up electro-techno rocker called My Robot Friend (pseud. Howard Rigberg, former leader of the NYC trio Princess). They have performed in France, and throughout the U.S. Their song "You're Out of the Computer" can be found on the outsider music compilation SONGS IN THE KEY OF Z, VOL. 2. Some of Bingo's recordings can also be found on various My Robot Friend releases.
Bingo was one of five musicians profiled in a 2002 UK TV (channel 4) documentary called OUTSIDERS, by Spectre Productions. |
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