#plaster casters

“There was that time in July ‘67 with the Monkees. Oh, those dumb Monkees. They were in the lobby of the hotel and there was a lot of security around. Getting upstairs was going to be a problem, they thought. But the Monkees had heard about the Plaster Casters and, oh, yes, they wanted to see this, they did, and they sent down for them. ‘We approached Davy Jones and he said “yeh, it would be great, you could have duplicates made and sell them in stores.” But Davy went into the other room and got Peter Tork, brought him out with nothing on, he did, and said “Okay, here.” And there were about thirty people around, some of the Buffalo Springfield were there and oh, it was a scene. ‘Bright one over here,‘ Rennie [Cynthia Plaster Caster] flips her hand toward Lisa, ‘takes hold of his rig and and starts hand-jobbing him. They’re all sitting around waiting for me to do something. I grabbed his rig too. We both had our hands on it. Somebody got on the piano and started playing Lovely Rita Meter Maid. It was — like a movie! Then Dewey Martin of the Springfield takes off his pants and drags me over to the couch — too much! Later Rennie [Cynthia] got up and went into the kitchen. Opening the can of alginates she cut her hand severely on the metal strip. There was blood all over the place and they had to tourniquet her. Then they all got mad and went to bed. They’re so stupid. The Mon-keeees!’” - The Realist, issue no. 84, November 1968

“We were sitting outside the Monkees’ hotel. One of the roadies saw the suitcase outside and had us brought up to the room. We were going to cast Peter Tork, who was notorious for walking around naked. There he was playing the grand piano, totally naked, and Buffalo Springfield were also hanging out, except for Neil Young. I was about to open the can of dental alginates which I didn’t know how to mix, and I split my middle finger almost in half. Luckily for me, because I didn’t know what I was doing. [Micky] Dolenz personally tourniqueted my finger. So much for The Monkees.” - Cynthia Plaster Caster, Q, September 1989

“[Micky] Dolenz told me [‘60s groupies] the Plaster Casters took a bigger penis mold of Peter Tork than of Jimi Hendrix.” - Nardwuar, The Vancouver Sun, July 4, 1992

“I tried to cast Peter during the time I had discovered dental mold and I didn’t know how to use it. Just as I was opening one [of] the can[s] — it was like an old-fashioned Planters’ Peanut type can — I cut my finger on the edge and cut it so bad it wouldn’t stop bleeding, and [Micky] Dolenz had to tourniquet my middle finger. I should probably have gone to the hospital, but it all went well with the finger. No cast of Peter, though. I never really got to see what he was capable of. He really liked being naked. He was so cute — and he looked damn good!” - Cynthia Plaster Caster, rockconfidential dot com, March 2004