Caesar Pink & the Imperial Orgy - four legs good, two legs baaad! (Chief Logan)

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 high school he joined a punk rock band called Friction that became an outlet for his politically radical views. 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 conservative mainstream culture, 80's big hair bands, and the hopelessness and decadence of working class existence.

Pink's journey through life is a dizzying barrage of strange events. Caeser was born a "blue baby" to working class laborers in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, a small steel-mill town hidden in a secluded valley of the Appalachian mountains. Although given an award as "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.

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. 
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 commercial recording studio, a home, rental properties, and an extravagant collection of eastern artwork. But at a time when most men might settle into a more traditional lifestyle, Pink turned in another direction. 
Feeling that the 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. 
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 ill 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.
 Since arriving in New York City Pink The Imperial Orgy community has undertaken a wide variety or projects and employed a large array of mediums to communicate to a wider audience. Those projects have included street theatre, art and fashion shows, poetry and concert events, the creation of an underground TV series called The Imperial Orgy TV Show, experimental films, books and CDs, online chats, radio broadcast, blogs, and a variety of websites. 
Throughout this time The Imperial Orgy community has continued to expand with an ever-growing and ever-changing cast of talented artists, activists, spiritual seekers, sexual explorers, and social misfits. While Pink uses the talents and energy of the community to help create group works to express his message, he also provides a platform for emerging artists to express their own creativity. Often Pink inspires people to find courage and artistic focus, acting as both medium and catalyst for creative, personal, and spiritual liberation. 
In January of 2000 Pink was ordained a minister in The Universal Light church. In 2001 he embarked on a cross country road trip to see America in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. In June of 2002 he presented a giant-sized counter-culture party in New York's East Village called The Imperial Orgy Erotic Masquerade Ball. 
In 2003 Pink founded a non-profit organization called The Arete Living Arts Foundation as a means to fund the promotion and presentation of arts and artists who create works that express a unique vision or are innovative in form. The following year was spent in his economically distressed hometown where he used the non-profit organization to offer free computer classes in creative programs for video editing, web design, and graphic design. 2006 saw the release of The Imperial Orgy's Gospel Hymns For Agnostic & Atheists CD to wide critical acclaim. Followed by 2007's All God's Children CD and the publication of a book of poetry and lyrics titled The Orgy Hymnal. 
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. 

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