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Spontaneous Combustion

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Spontaneous Combustion, a bluegrass-rock group comprised of four white men from Kansas City, Missouri, who sit and stand playing their instruments, in front of a brick wall with drapes over it. A yellow flame is coming out of the end of the fiddler's bow, the pocket of the mandolin players, the headstock of the banjo and double bass, and about the feet of the mandolin player. The flames are the only color in the black and white photograph. A fire extinguisher sits on the floor by a banjo. The double bass endpin sits in a tennis shoe. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Spontaneous Combustion. Bookings: Marvin (816) 444-2594, Leo (816) 531-1845. Correspondence: 3637 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Mo. 64111."
Date Published
1986
1990
Subjects
Bluegrass musicians
Rock musicians
Bands (Music)
Men, White
Time Periods
1981-1990
Notes

No date; likely late 1980s

Damaged.

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_grand-emporium_photo-1686.tif
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Color photographs
Group portraits
Publicity photographs
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
Rights
Copyright Undetermined
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections at specialcollections@umkc.edu for more information.
Rights
Copyright Undetermined
All collection images may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent use and/or distribution in print or electronically. Please contact LaBudde Special Collections at specialcollections@umkc.edu for more information.

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