In 2001, The Residents released their ambitious Icky Flix project on DVD and CD, the DVD featuring their classic music videos with the option of a brand new soundtrack.
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In 1984, The Residents discovered that the state of video technology had advanced to the point where they could salvage their old 1/2" Vileness Fats work and transfer it to VHS.
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Vileness Fats dominated The Residents' lives for the four years that it was in production.
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Vileness Fats is an unfinished film project of avant-garde band The Residents, filmed primarily from 1972 to 1976.
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Without a film company in control of the project, The Residents were free to exercise their artistic expression, something they felt was very important.
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The Residents had just moved into a studio at 20 Sycamore Street, San Francisco, which featured a completely open ground floor, perfect, it seemed, for a sound stage.
Fats Domino | Fats Waller | Fats Navarro | Vileness Fats | Minnesota Fats | Hollywood Fats | Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino | Fats Everett | Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen |
Recorded as a break from their film project Vileness Fats, the album was home produced and recorded throughout 1973 with help from fellow musician Snakefinger and based around N. Senada's "Theory of Phonetic Organization".