Mr. Quintron
photographed by Tony Campbell
Mr. Quintron
photographed by Tony Campbell

 
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QUINTRON
spectacle / visual artist / musician / inventor | originally from Mobile, AL and St. Louis, MO | moved to New Orleans ? | Currently living in New Orleans

See Also: The Spellcaster's Lodge / Miss Pussycat / Pussycat Caverns

Links: Quintron and Miss Pussycat / Drum Buddy Island

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Press:

ON THE Q-TIP
By Tom Loughran
(written for the unpublished Fake magazine; Spring 1998)

In the unwritten annals of rock and roll history, there's a listing under the letter Q. It reads: "Quintron, Mr. - concert and nightclub organist, 9th Ward, New Orleans(see also Miss Pussycat)." It goes on to describe his "crazy organ music," his wife's "bizarre puppet shows," and his roots in the underground music scene. That's all good of course, but as his last album title reminds us, "Satan Is Dead - Do The Stomp." Which is just another way of saying you should be dancing. Because when Quintron gets behind that mass of keyboards, beatboxes and homemade musical inventions, and when Miss Pussycat puts on her cat ears, high heels and maracas, and when that whole crazy thing is up and running, with beats beating, leslie speakers spinning and organ notes filling the air like some hipster "Ride of the Valkyrie," and when he starts kicking "The 9th Ward Breakdown," singing about crazy girls and bug raids, humming into that crazy gizmo in his mouth, and scratching up a storm on the Drum Buddy, when all that hits your ears like a backwoods rock and roll revival, you will be dancing. You'll be dancing, Mr. Quintron will be dancing, Miss Pussycat will be dancing, and if your friends come, they'll be dancing too. Any Questions?