As a experimental filmmaker, Rush Limbaugh
accosted
Pink's work as a symbol of anti-establishment propaganda.
In 1987 Pink's words of peace were broadcast worldwide
from the Soviet Union on the
Moscow radio networks. Now
as leader of The Imperial Orgy, Pink has united his many
sides into a single kaleidoscopic force.
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Click to hear
broadcast excerpt.
Born to working class parents in a small steel-mill town
in Pennsylvania, Pink's journey through life is a dizzying
barrage of strange events. Both Parents were depression-era children
who dropped out of school during the eighth grade to help
support their families.
His father, known as Red, was said to "see omens."
Often smelling or seeing roses floating before his eyes
as a friend or relative died. In his youth Red is said to have turned on
the kitchen faucet as it was struck by lightning, causing
flames to shoot out instead of water. A few hours later,
in the same room, his niece was scalded to death when
his sister accidentally spilled boiling water on the infant.
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Pink's great, great grandmother was purchased from the
Apache indian tribe for eighty-five cents. Stories were
told of how her husband would awaken during the full moon
to see her performing ritualistic dances in the moonlight.
Of Pink's maternal grandfather it was whispered that he had
"a brain disease." In his later years he would hold
long conversations with Jesus Christ. It seems he saw
the deity walk right into the living room and take a seat
on the couch so they might converse.
Pink was born a blue baby. Born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania,
a decaying industrial village hidden in a secluded valley
of the Appalachian mountains.
Although given an award for "All American
City" in the 1970's, it was a town torn between righteous
religious extremism and rampant drug and alcohol addictions,
high unemployment, and random violence. On the surface
it was an idyllic rural paradise, but lurking below
was a nihilism that infected many within the community,
causing them to take part in self-destructive behavior.
During his youth Pink was a social misfit who felt at
odds with his environment and oppressed by the conservative
values of the community. Pink became a
musician when he was seven years old and by
the age of thirteen was a weekend regular performing
in country and western bars and firehouse pubs in the region.
During his high school years he became the drummer for a punk
rock band called Friction
that became an outlet for his politically radical views and
social frustrations. Although the band never reached beyond
the level of regional cult status, to their fans they were
a voice which stood against the boredom of consevative mainstream
culture, 80's big hair bands, and the hopelessness and decedance
of working class existence.
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By age eighteen Pink was living in a twilight world of sex and drugs,
often mixing quaaludes and tequila before staggering onto the
stage to perform. Just as it seemed he was following the path of
self-destruction that was so common among the youth in his hometown,
he was seized by a shattering religious vision that transformed his
life and sent him into a Thoreau-esque hermitage deep in the Appalachian
foothills.
Surrounded only by trees, a mountain stream that ran through his front yard,
and a few chickens for eggs, Pink spent the next two years in study and
quiet contemplation. With jobs non-existent, during that time he lived in extreme poverty, often reduced to stealing food for survival, and living without phone,
television, hot water, and with only a small wood-stove for heat.
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After two years the tide turned when Pink won ten-thousand dollars in a
government lottery. Within a short time he used the money to invest and
accumulate a business, a home, rental properties, and an extravagant collection of
Eastern artwork. But when most men might settle into a more traditional
lifestyle, Pink turned in another direction.
Feeling that his materialistic and mundane existence had become
meaningless to him, he threw away all of his material possessions
and severed personal ties in order to gain artistic and emotional
freedom.
In the midst of this, he was the focus of a vengeful conspiracy
among the sheriff's department and members of the local police
force in retaliation for a harassment charge filed by a state
senator on Pink's behalf. Soon afterward he was warned by the
state Attorney General's office that his phone was illegally
tapped by an unknown source.
Only days later he was taken into kangaroo court, thrown into
jail on invisible charges, and once inside, other inmates were urged
to beat him at the sheriff's request. Luckily the inmates
recognized Pink from his punk rock days and warned him of
the sheriff's intentions.
After being forced to flee his hometown to escape the wrath
of the local authorities, his next two years were spent
living on the edge. While studying film at the Penn State
University his life became a hectic whirlwind of
disastrous love affairs and dangerous forays into the
dark nights with the lost souls of America's underculture.
From being held at knife point in a New Orleans' projects,
car-jacked by one of New York City's 14th Street
transvestites, to finding solace among small time drug
dealers, homeless vagrants, and cheap prostitutes, as he
watched friends be destroyed by drugs and suicide, and
lovers one by one collapse into mental breakdown while
trying to survive amid his chaotic lifestyle.
In 1994 as The Imperial Orgy began to experience their
first rush of local success, Pink's life spiraled out
of control. Homeless and living in the back of an old
car, physically worn and mentally disintegrating, he
collapsed into what he refers to as a 'spiritual death.'
By the time Pink arrived in New York City he was at his lowest point.
With no money for rent, he slept on the basement floor of a friend's Staten
Island home. His belongings, now reduced to a few old crates with tattered
books and CDs, were scattered around him.
One morning as he lay on the floor a book suddenly fell from
one of the crates. The book, "The Politics Of Experience,"
by R.D. Lang expressed an unconventional theory that some
forms of mental breakdown were actually a spiritual passage
from one stage of consciousness to another. A passage that
took him from spiritual death or rebirth.
This spiritual death is explored in The White Rose sections of the mandela maze.
The experience of spiritual death and rebirth as a process in seeking spiritual enlightenment
is common to Eastern and tribal religions. The website journey you are about to begin will
offer an opportunity to inspire this same experience within you. But you will only get as much out
of it as you put into it.
Caeser Pink currently resides in the Williamsburg
area of Brooklyn, N.Y. His music is an emotionally
raw and poignantly honest expression of his
thoughts and experiences. The intensity of
his stage presence lends an unpredictable
edge to The Imperial Orgy's live performances.
The energy and ideas behind his vision propel
The Imperial Orgy.
In January of 2001 Pink was ordained a minister
in The Universal Light church. In 2006 Pink published a book of poetry and lyrics
titled The Orgy Hymnal.
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