the best 100% true fact in the history of the universe

sunn wolf

During the late 60s, Steve Reich and Philip Glass started and ran their own furniture removal company.

this happened.

this 100% happened.

i fucking love this planet.

Imipolex G

Did they make recordings of it?

Obā-san

Low-Rate Movers, the greatest concentration of musical talent ever seen in the furniture removal business

sunn wolf

Imipölex G said:

Did they make recordings of it?

i dont think so and in a way im glad they didnt as i do not want anything to spoil the perfect mental image i have of this

Salix Babylonika

hahaha what

Obā-san

Richard Serra (a really cool sculptor) had a moving company and he hired likeminded artists who were out of work

Section42L

While this fact is indeed incredible, there's still one more fact about Philip Glass that amazes me even more:

"It’s a living: Despite smash success of 1976 performances of “Einstein on the Beach” at the Metropolitan Opera, Glass and co-creator Robert Wilson were left with a $90,000 debt after spending $900,000 to create the work. Glass returned to his day gig of driving a cab. One day a sharply dressed woman got in and noticed the name on the registration: “Young man,” she said. “Do you realize you have the same name as a very famous composer?”"

Sredni Vashtar

I actually knew all of this, but I'd basically forgotten it until you all reminded me. So thank you all.

Loosely related: Conceptual artist Walter De Maria was a member of the touring line-up for Lou Reed's novelty group The Primitives back in the early '60s. Filling rooms with feet of earth, drumming in small clubs—same difference.