Do the CockWalkRock Life with Whitestarr
Do the CockWalkRock Life with Whitestarr by Roxanne McDonald
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I’d like to go to great, stretched-out lengths to avoid turning this piece into a long, stretched-out dissertation on Cisco Adler’s unmentionables, but not sure how long I can hold out. |
The idea WAS to add Cisco and the other Whitestarr band members to the Rock Relationships archive. The plan was to casually look at the dynamics of the band as it aspires to become famous—the interpersonal pressures, the grating gripes, the subsequent physical fights that foreshadow a flash-in-the-pan sort of fame.
Let’s see if I can get something salvageable now that I have partaken of two episodes of “The Rock Life” and a quick curiosity-sating peek at some pics that are all over the net.
Okay, so, Whitestarr members, Cisco, Orbi, Rainbow, Damone, and Dancing Potato Tony have been together for years. [Orbi says something about having been in this band for eight years, so I’m going on that for starters—despite how sites like StarPulse.com cite the band-formation date as 2000.]
Their relationship as a collective is oddly defined. In one sense, there is a camaraderie and syncopation that is fascinating to witness, while in another sense the levels of interaction go way beyond the male banter dynamic and into “Shut the fuck up” and the pointing out of others’ flaws disrespect phenom.
I think it was Cisco who, as the bandmates were bringin in their shit to live with him while they work on making their next album, said that it was like they started out a group of dogs and ended up like a pack of wild wolves….
He leads the jam in front of manager Carl Stubner, for example, and does this odd stop/cut/stop/cut thing before they can even get one song off the floor. Then, he sings, “Now I’m drivin down the road/You just fucked up right there….” No, those aren’t all lyrics. The latter half is Cisco admonishing Rainbow mid-song.
Okay, so they don’t have a Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid thing.