Performers - Part 92

Sergey Shnurov

Sergey Shnurov is a Russian rock musician, born in 1973.  In 1997, he created the band called Leningrad.  The band was known for its profane lyrics and scandalous behavior.  Above, Shnurov in the Leningrad band.

An excerpt from a Leningrad concert in Nuremberg, Germany in 2002.  The band had 14 members, all of whom performed naked.  The band had a rich sound, including trumpet, trombone, tuba, saxophone and keyboard as well as the usual guitars, bass, and drums.

Shnurov is the lead vocalist whom the video focuses in on.

Shnurov at the keyboard.

Shnurov pissing from a stage.

A slightly older Shnurov.  In case you're thinking he's not very well endowed ...

We end with this photo of Shnurov.  Remember that some people are growers, not showers.

Performers - Part 91

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Performers - Part 90

Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an athlete, actor, singer and political rights activist in the first half of the 20th century.  In 1915 he won a scholarship to Rutgers University, the third black student to ever attend Rutgers.  He played on the Rutgers football team (above) and was named All American in 1917 and 1918.

He then went on to law school at Columbia, playing professional football while earning his law degree.  After graduation, he became an actor in the Harlem Renaissance movement, performing in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones and All God's Chillun Got Wings.

While all this was going on, he found time to pose for Nikolas Muray in 1926 for a series of photos called Nude Studies.  Robeson had no problem showing off his athletic body.

Another from Nude Studies.

And another.

In 1925 he posed for a statue by Antonio Salemme called Negro Spiritual.  This is a plaster cast of the statue.  The original was shipped to France to be cast in bronze but was destroyed in World War II.

In 1936 he sang "Ol' Man River" in the movie Show Boat, in which he starred, above.

His liberal political activism led to persecution in the McCarthy era after World War II.  Today he is honored for his views on civil rights as well as his artistic accomplishments.

Performers - Part 89

Christopher Meloni

Christopher Meloni, born in 1961, is an American actor who, among other roles, played the murderer Chris Keller in the HBO prison drama Oz from 1998 to 2003.  All of today's photos and videos are from Oz.

In Oz, he has a gay affair with inmate Tobias Beecher, played by Lee Tergesen.  Above, they share a shower, with Meloni in the background and Tergesen in the foreground.

A shower with another inmate.  Meloni is at right.

And he gives us a frontal view.  This series was on HBO, so it did not have to be as prudish as network TV.

They showed things that would never appear on network TV, like Meloni pissing into a bucket.

We end with the concluding episode of series 5 of Oz, where Meloni, after being convicted of another murder, talks to Sister Pete.  He strips (above) and says that all his life his penis has led him where it wanted to go.  Now that he wants to share his love with someone, he can't.  He is then moved to Death Row.

Performers - Part 88

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were a comedy team in the early 1950s, featuring singer Dean Martin and nutty comic Jerry Lewis.  They started as a nightclub act but then did some TV appearances and made a number of movies together.

Some nude photos have surfaced of them at the Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs in 1952.  Above, Dean (at left) and Jerry (next to him) in a sauna or steam room.  The man at right is Mack Gray, Dean's assistant and close friend.

The rest of the photos were taken in a shower room.  Here are Jerry and Dean, semi-modest.

Here they are with Dean not modest at all, aside from someone's inept attempt to censor the photo.

Finally, Dean and Jerry, with Dean again totally exposed.  Although it looks like Jerry is jerking off, he's probably holding his hand like that as a joke.

Performers - Part 87

 Zachary Stains in
Ercole su'l Termodonte

Vivaldi wrote the opera Ercole su'l Termodonte (Hercules on Thermodon) in 1723.  It's about one of the labors of Hercules in which he has to fight a tribe of Amazon women.  The opera was revived in 2006 at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.  See the opening of the opera above.

The music is rather repetitious (there's a reason this opera hadn't been revived in almost 300 years), but keep watching, because after around 20 seconds, Hercules appears, played by American tenor Zachary Stains wearing the legendary lion skin of the lion that Hercules killed, and almost nothing else.

The set, featuring large marble broken phalluses, has been called the gayest thing ever.

Hercules' lion skin does not cover his nudity, and Stains does not try to hide it.

In fact, later, he doffs the lion skin entirely for a while.

Here's the aria in which he gets completely naked.  Before that, we see him kissing another guy.  What's up with that?  The other guy is his male companion Theseus, whose part was written for a female voice but originally played in 1723 by a castrato (a castrated male singer with a high voice) because a papal edict forbade women to sing in Rome.  In the 2006 revival, Theseus was played by a woman in a male costume.

It's interesting that the Church viewed the idea of a woman singing as so awful that it needed to be banned, but the Church had no problem with the idea of castrating a boy to preserve his high voice.

In any case, Hercules kisses Theseus, which seems rather gay, and then proceeds to take off what little clothes he has on.  Enjoy.

Performers - Part 86

Antioquia

Antioquia was a band that started in Antioquia, Colombia, then moved to San Francisco and Oakland, California.  They were most active from about 2008 to 2012.  Above, an official band photo taken on Feb. 18, 2008 at Kirby Cove with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.  The band members are, from left: Craig Miller, Paul Martin, Maddy Streicek and Adley Penner.

Another photo from the Feb. 18, 2008 photo shoot, with a peekaboo view of Adley Penner.

And another photo from the same photo shoot.

The official band photo made it into this poster for the band playing on Oct. 7, 2008.

We end with another photo shoot on June 26, 2009.  This one is called "interpretive swimming", whatever that is.

Performers - Part 85

Jesse Rutherford

Jesse Rutherford, born in 1991, is an American singer, songwriter and former actor.  He is the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band The Neighborhood.  This photo was taken early in his career, before he was covered with tattoos.

A rear view with only one tattoo.

A later shot, with his chest and arms covered with tattoos.

A butt shot.

We end with a video clip of him pissing, which he obviously arranged and approved.

Performers - Part 84

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Performers - Part 83

 Patrick (Paddy) Costello

Dillinger Four is a punk rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1994.  One of the band members, Paddy Costello, occasionally strips naked onstage.  Above, playing at The Fest music festival in Gainesville, Florida in 2005.

Here he is again at The Fest in 2006.

At the Insubordination Fest punk rock music festival in Baltimore, Maryland in 2009.

Another view of him at the 2009 Insubordination Fest.

At the Now That's Class music bar in Cleveland, Ohio in 2009, a fan seems to be stuffing a piece of paper into his butt.

We end with this undated photo.  Paddy is certainly not a muscle god; in fact, he's a bit on the chubby side, but he's unashamed and he doesn't care.  His tattoo says "How much art can you take?"