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life_of_agony 07-30-2011 07:17 AM

Life Of Agony/Keith Caputo
 
Are any of you lovely people fans of Life Of Agony or Keith Caputo's solo work? In my opinion, Caputo should be massive. He is one of the best vocalists I have ever heard, both in his heavier work with Life Of Agony and his solo stuff. The guy is quite tormented...he lost both this parents to heroin and his lyrics are very personal and heartfelt. He is such an emotive vocalist - you can feel his pain in his lyrics. And as an interesting tidbit, Caputo has just announced that he is transgender and will be living life as a woman. I don't care either way...he (or she) is the greatest vocalist I have ever heard. Check it...would be interested to hear your views:

Life Of Agony:
My Mind Is Dangerous: Weeds: Desire: Love To Let You Down: Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds cover: This Time: Through And Through:
Keith Caputo solo:
Selfish: Mother: Why (Annie Lennox cover): In December: Got Monsters: Crawling: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper Cover):
Enjoy!

UKjovi 07-30-2011 10:07 AM

Thanks for posting this. I've seen the name but never bothered to listen to their music and just listened, really like it!

life_of_agony 07-30-2011 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by UKjovi (Post 1068784)
Thanks for posting this. I've seen the name but never bothered to listen to their music and just listened, really like it!

I'm glad you like it. You know those artists that you love so much that you wish everyone knew about them because they are so damn awesome? That's what Caputo/Life Of Agony are to me.

dcj28 07-31-2011 11:11 PM

I,ll have a look at these later in the week, JT,s playing up tonight so i,d never get back on if I switch to YT. All I know by KC is the duet with Within Temptation (What Have You Done) and its a great song imo so look forward to listening to your recommendations thanks.

life_of_agony 08-01-2011 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by dcj28 (Post 1069246)
I,ll have a look at these later in the week, JT,s playing up tonight so i,d never get back on if I switch to YT. All I know by KC is the duet with Within Temptation (What Have You Done) and its a great song imo so look forward to listening to your recommendations thanks.

Yeah, the Within Temptation track is killer. I will be interested to hear your thoughts on LOA/Caputo once you have had a chance to listen.

life_of_agony 08-16-2011 10:04 AM

Here is an article about Caputo and him now living life as a woman.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=160718

LIFE OF AGONY Singer: 'I'm Not Living Life As A Man Anymore'

LIFE OF AGONY's Keith Caputo has revealed that he is "transitioning" into life as a woman and has begun to refer to himself as "her" on his official web site, KeithCaputo.com. The singer, who has adopted the name "Keith Mina Caputo", wrote on his Twitter account, "Male to female transsexuals like me are the women who give up male privilege for femininity! Threaten the patriarchy!" He also responded to a question from a fan about the demise of LIFE OF AGONY by writing, "LIFE OF AGONY has already gone into isolation and it's got nothing to do with me transitioning [to a woman]."

In a June 5, 2011 interview with "DeadDave's Internet Radio Show" (stream audio below), Caputo stated, "I live a completely, totally different lifestyle. I'm a completely different human being, as you guys probably know. I have a very different path in life. I'm not living life as a man anymore and stuff. So, yeah, my life is completely different, but music will always be… music is definitely my driving force."

Caputo previously used cross-dressing images of himself in the artwork for his 2008 album "A Fondness For Hometown Scars" and dedicated the CD to androgynous people.

In a July 11 tweet, Caputo said, "my cuzins even get on me for being transgender, callin me the dumbest names, but it's all in good fun they'll really kill 4 me." The vocalist also re-tweeted a story from Metal Insider claiming the singer was due to get a sex change. He replied with the message, "Thx for being sweet & respectful..Deeply appreciate it. FYI, I'm keeping my penis!"

During his appearance on "DeadDave's Internet Radio Show", Caputo spoke about LIFE OF AGONY's future plans, stating, "We realize that LIFE OF AGONY has become an extremely nostalgic act and the music that used to not be dated, in our eyes, is dated, and the whole situation is dated. It's a nostalgia, and we don't want to take advantage of that nostalgia anymore, nor do we wanna take advantage of the fans. We've got three shows this year and it's probably gonna be the last shows that we do for a very long time. In fact, we just may call it quits. Because we feel like we set out to do what we needed to collectively. We're very honest people, we love each other dearly, but we just can't get it on; we can't turn each other on in the studio. We hit a brick wall together, and it ain't cool. So there's probably not gonna be a new [LIFE OF AGONY] album, nor a new single… So people better start getting used to [the 2005 album] 'Broken Valley', because that's probably the last piece of music that they'll hear from the band."

steel_horse75 08-17-2011 09:38 AM

I had the album Ugly (i think it was called) it came in a ltd edition tin.

But I lost it. Ill check his solo work out on Spotify today.

life_of_agony 08-17-2011 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by steel_horse75 (Post 1071625)
I had the album Ugly (i think it was called) it came in a ltd edition tin.

But I lost it. Ill check his solo work out on Spotify today.

Ugly is an awesome, awesome album. I'm sure you'll dig his solo stuff and the other LOA records if you haven't checked them already.

rocknation 08-22-2011 06:34 AM

BIG two thumbs up from here! As a music journalist, I would have picked their Soul Searching Sun as my album of the year if Keith hadn't left!

P.S. Where's Lost At 22?

life_of_agony 08-23-2011 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by rocknation (Post 1072049)
BIG two thumbs up from here! As a music journalist, I would have picked their Soul Searching Sun as my album of the year if Keith hadn't left!

P.S. Where's Lost At 22?

I was shattered when Caputo left...Soul Searching Sun should have made them huuuge.
I didn't want to overload the tracks above, but yeah,
Lost At 22...classic.

Captain Walrus 08-27-2011 11:32 PM

I've got Broken Valley, and it's a decent album, quite obviously influenced by Velvet Revolver though. Love To Let You Down is a fantastic song, there's a few other really good ones on there, but I can't remember what they're called off the top of my head, I haven't listened to it for a few years. Been meaning to listen to their earlier stuff for year but never really got around to it so far.

Bit bemused that Keith Caputo is choosing to live as a woman though!

life_of_agony 08-28-2011 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Captain Walrus (Post 1072391)
I've got Broken Valley, and it's a decent album, quite obviously influenced by Velvet Revolver though. Love To Let You Down is a fantastic song, there's a few other really good ones on there, but I can't remember what they're called off the top of my head, I haven't listened to it for a few years. Been meaning to listen to their earlier stuff for year but never really got around to it so far.

Bit bemused that Keith Caputo is choosing to live as a woman though!

Broken Valley was awesome, but probably their weakest album overall I reckon. Check their earlier stuff....sensational.

Roxannah 09-04-2011 08:45 PM

since you and i seem to have similar taste in music (apart from Crue :D), i trust your judgement this is killer stuff and i'm giving these guys a go. i just need to be guided so i don't pick their worse album, which i mostly likely would otherwise :) what should i listen to first?

life_of_agony 09-04-2011 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1073093)
since you and i seem to have similar taste in music (apart from Crue :D), i trust your judgement this is killer stuff and i'm giving these guys a go. i just need to be guided so i don't pick their worse album, which i mostly likely would otherwise :) what should i listen to first?

You won't be dissapointed...I hope! Probably try "Soul Searching Sun" first, it would be their most melodic album. All their stuff is killer though, they started out quite a bit heavier and were part of the hardcore scene with their debut "River Runs Red", but got progressively more melodic from there. If you want to look at Caputo solo, then his first album, "Died Laughing" is a good starting point. Let me know what you think!

Roxannah 09-06-2011 10:46 PM

thanks for the suggestions, i think i'll try the band albums first. i will let you know what i think. Soul Searching Sun it is then :)

life_of_agony 09-06-2011 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1073226)
thanks for the suggestions, i think i'll try the band albums first. i will let you know what i think. Soul Searching Sun it is then :)

Awesome. I look forward to hearing your opinions!

Roxannah 09-11-2011 11:35 PM

so i have listened to Soul Searching Sun a few times now and i don't know if you agree with me but my first impression was it is really grungy. it took me a bit by surprise as i was expecting something slightly heavier and not so grunge influenced. i pretended to like grunge when it was big, but honestly i never really did like it. so i struggled a bit especially with the start of the album with Hope, which is actually a good song but not my cup of tea, and Gently Sentimental, which i feel is the grungiest track off of the album and thus my least favourite.

on the plus side, i really like Weeds, Tangerine, Lead You Astray and my favourite My Mind Is Dangerous. i think the album got better from
Tangerine onwards.

you mentioned something like the band going a different direction with SSS so i was curious and checked out the first few songs off the other two albums. although considerably heavier than most things i'm used to, i found them more enjoyable and much less foreign to my melodic rock trained ears :) going by the songs i listened to, i reckon Ugly could be my favourite of the lot, although i have yet to listen to it properly. i'm happy i checked SSS out though, i really think there's potential there to be a grower :)

life_of_agony 09-12-2011 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1073623)
so i have listened to Soul Searching Sun a few times now and i don't know if you agree with me but my first impression was it is really grungy. it took me a bit by surprise as i was expecting something slightly heavier and not so grunge influenced. i pretended to like grunge when it was big, but honestly i never really did like it. so i struggled a bit especially with the start of the album with Hope, which is actually a good song but not my cup of tea, and Gently Sentimental, which i feel is the grungiest track off of the album and thus my least favourite.

on the plus side, i really like Weeds, Tangerine, Lead You Astray and my favourite My Mind Is Dangerous. i think the album got better from
Tangerine onwards.

you mentioned something like the band going a different direction with SSS so i was curious and checked out the first few songs off the other two albums. although considerably heavier than most things i'm used to, i found them more enjoyable and much less foreign to my melodic rock trained ears :) going by the songs i listened to, i reckon Ugly could be my favourite of the lot, although i have yet to listen to it properly. i'm happy i checked SSS out though, i really think there's potential there to be a grower :)

Glad that you had a listen. It really is a grower as an album, you need to give it a bit of time, but once you do you might find yourself hooked. SSS was definitely their least heavy album. The tracks you listed above are pretty much my faves as well, especially "My Mind Is Dangerous" - Caputo's vocals are brilliant on that track. Desire, Angry Tree and Heroin Dreams are brilliant as well.

"Ugly" is probably my favourite Life Of Agony album overall, however I think Caputo's vocals really start to shine on SSS. I don't know if you are someone who gets into the lyrics of songs much, but check out the lyrics to tracks on Ugly such as "Let's Pretend" and "How It Would Be". Caputo's mother died of a heroin overdose when he was one and a lot of his lyrics relate to that. His father passed away from a heroin overdose a few years back as well, so he has had quite a tormented upbringing.

Have a listen to the below and check out the lyrics...so heartfelt. There is a heavier version on "Ugly", but I think the definitive version is an acoustic version on Keith Caputo's "Died Laughing Pure" album (acoustic renditions of his first solo album, with a couple of other tracks and a brilliant version of Annie Lennox's "Why?"). Unfortunately, I cannot find the version I have anywhere on You Tube....the below version is nowhere near as good but gives you an idea.


His solo stuff is a lot more mellow than the LOA stuff, but it just gets me in a way that no other artist does. Some of his tracks just give me the chills.

Roxannah 09-17-2011 05:23 PM

Angry Tree yesss, i forgot that one, really liked it.

i like doing a bit of a background check on the bands i'm listening to so i have a better understanding of them. besides of what you wrote here, i also read Keith's bio on his page and also checked the band on Wiki. he's had such a sad life story, i would imagine it gives him plenty to write about. Let's Pretend contains some really intense lyrics indeed. especially when you know the story behind them. i checked the album version and his vocals make the song sound like a lament. it did make me feel sad.

i admit i paid little attention to the lyrical part in SSS. i generally concentrate more on it once i know the musical part of the songs better. i still want to give SSS a couple more listens before i move on to the previous 2 albums.

life_of_agony 09-21-2011 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1073901)
Angry Tree yesss, i forgot that one, really liked it.

i like doing a bit of a background check on the bands i'm listening to so i have a better understanding of them. besides of what you wrote here, i also read Keith's bio on his page and also checked the band on Wiki. he's had such a sad life story, i would imagine it gives him plenty to write about. Let's Pretend contains some really intense lyrics indeed. especially when you know the story behind them. i checked the album version and his vocals make the song sound like a lament. it did make me feel sad.

i admit i paid little attention to the lyrical part in SSS. i generally concentrate more on it once i know the musical part of the songs better. i still want to give SSS a couple more listens before i move on to the previous 2 albums.

I'm glad you are giving it a decent listen. If you like them/him half as much as me you'll still friggin' love 'em!

Roxannah 10-05-2011 09:26 PM

first off i have to admit i'm not a "hardcore" girl, so it took me a while to get into River Runs Red. now that i've listened to it more than i care to admit, i have to say it's a great album. not because i have played it so many times i got used to it, but because i genuinely think it's very good. despite still not being my kind of thing, i can see the musical value in it, even though i'm not too crazy about Keith's vocals on this one.

my favourite song off the album is Method of Groove. i also like Bad Seed, River Runs Red, My Eyes and The Staind Remains. This Time still remains somewhere between the great songs and the meh songs, i'm still not sure about that one. any of the others i mentioned would be very welcomed in a playlist of mine.

while SSS and RRR are totally out of my comfort zone (somewhere i like to be when i'm exploring new music), from what i could tell so far, Ugly is similar to stuff i like (Tool, A Perfect Circle). i listened to a couple of songs off Ugly and this will be my favourite for sure (that's why i left it for the end) :)

life_of_agony 10-06-2011 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1075116)
first off i have to admit i'm not a "hardcore" girl, so it took me a while to get into River Runs Red. now that i've listened to it more than i care to admit, i have to say it's a great album. not because i have played it so many times i got used to it, but because i genuinely think it's very good. despite still not being my kind of thing, i can see the musical value in it, even though i'm not too crazy about Keith's vocals on this one.

my favourite song off the album is Method of Groove. i also like Bad Seed, River Runs Red, My Eyes and The Staind Remains. This Time still remains somewhere between the great songs and the meh songs, i'm still not sure about that one. any of the others i mentioned would be very welcomed in a playlist of mine.

while SSS and RRR are totally out of my comfort zone (somewhere i like to be when i'm exploring new music), from what i could tell so far, Ugly is similar to stuff i like (Tool, A Perfect Circle). i listened to a couple of songs off Ugly and this will be my favourite for sure (that's why i left it for the end) :)


I really love that you are giving all the albums a chance, and glad to hear that you are enjoying them. I think you'll really dig "Ugly" - there are so many tracks on that album that are so deep lyrically. Also, has a really cool rendition of Don't You (Forget About Me) to close it out.

Have you had a chance to listen to their last album, "Broken Valley" as yet? Very Velvet Revolver-esque. Probably my least favourite album by them, but in saying that I still absolutely love it...as far as I am concerned LOA could do no wrong.

I am really interested to hear your views on his solo stuff once you have checked out all of the LOA work. Totally, totally different...
She has just released a new album with a new band called The Neptune Darlings which is very good also.

Thanks for reporting back, 'cos I am very interested to hear your views!

Roxannah 10-07-2011 02:10 AM

oh i forgot all about Broken Valley, no i haven't listened to it yet. i'll give it a spin after Ugly. i paid more attention to the lyrics on this one, my, isn't that negative stuff. what do you think of Friday? it's so well done i actually felt i was watching it all happen.

it seems the band change styles with each album they release, how did their fanbase react to that?

life_of_agony 10-09-2011 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1075167)
oh i forgot all about Broken Valley, no i haven't listened to it yet. i'll give it a spin after Ugly. i paid more attention to the lyrics on this one, my, isn't that negative stuff. what do you think of Friday? it's so well done i actually felt i was watching it all happen.

it seems the band change styles with each album they release, how did their fanbase react to that?

I struggle listening to Friday, the bit where you hear the wrists open up is kinda hard listening...

There are heaps of LOA fans who only like them for River Runs Red and hated the direction they took on their other albums. Personally, I always loved the progression - as much as I love RRR and that was the album that got me into them, I love everything that they did since equally. And I love how Keith Caputo's voice progressed throughout the releases. I have total man love for this band!

life_of_agony 10-25-2011 08:25 AM

Interesting new interview about Keith Caputo's "transition" to Mina Caputo:
Part 1:

gony and Ecstasy
A heavy metal rocker comes out as transgender.
By Diane Anderson-Minshall


There may be other transgender heavy metal musicians — Cretin singer Marissa Martinez in the U.S., From Metal to Maternal stage star Jade Starr in Australia — but none as high profile as Mina Caputo. Once known as Keith Caputo, the front-person for the popular rock band Life of Agony, Mina Caputo shocked heavy metal fans when bloggers and magazines around the globe picked up on her transition this summer. Many (with the exception of Kerrang!) got the facts wrong and they were, says Caputo, a little late.

“I came out technically three years ago. I kind of thought it was funny,” she says of the flood of attention she got this summer, especially “in the metal world, which I came from when I was like 19. I was in a very hard-edged, male pseudo angry kind of punk rock metal kind of band. We were very different at the time. Most people know me from that I guess, but I’ve also been doing solo albums for 10 years.”

The irony of being the first high profile heavy metal musician to come out isn’t lost on Caputo, who has been making very non-metal music in the last decade. Her latest video, for “Got Monsters,” is Niko Bikialo’s 11-minute docu-opus in which Caputo and an alter-ego struggling with identity. “We didn’t want to make it a cliché coming out story,” she says. “I really didn’t want to be all dolled up and give the wrong impression or put transsexuals in the wrong light… because its really not about style of dress or how much makeup you’re wearing. It’s state of spirit and being, I believe.”

The actress in “Got Monsters,” who represents Caputo’s subconscious sex (female) is unlike traditional metal music video vixens: “We loved her because she was really natural and there was pretty much nothing really girly about her. That’s what we like and that’s why we picked her.”

Caputo herself is non-traditional. She’s a transgender lesbian (her girlfriend is a makeup artist who lives in Vienna), who isn’t having bottom surgery and doesn’t mind when fans flub and call her Keith. “I’m not really big on titles. I don’t like to box anything [in].”

Growing up in Coney Island, Caputo’s life was anything but storybook. Her dad overdosed on heroin in 2002; her mother OD’d when she was still an infant. “Even though they were never around, they literally they showed me how to live my life and to create bliss out of any tragic situation which is pretty much my way.”

She knew she was different before she even hit puberty. “When I was like 8 or 9 years old I started cross dressing. I used to go through my aunt’s drawers when nobody was home and I used to steal her lingerie.” Raised by strict grandparents (“If I came home with dyed red hair, I’d get the shit kicked out of me, literally, so me coming out to my grandparents — it was never happening.”), Caputo first thought she was a gay man, experimenting with men and hanging out at transsexual bars

“I really didn’t even know the word transgender back then. I just though, OK I’m a transvestite or I’m a gay male but I love presenting myself as a woman.” Since her parents died of drug overdoses she was skittish of taking black market hormones as her other trans friends were doing at the time.

“The last thing I was going to do was starting shooting herself with something, I didn’t know what it was. So I didn’t go that route, even though I thought, ‘Oh my god, I want to be there, how do I do that, turn this male self into my true female self?’”

Becoming a rock star, says Caputo, delayed her transition. Caputo, and Life of Agony (which disbanded years ago but reunited last year for shows) have long been huge acts in Europe. In 2001, when Agony went on hiatus and Caputo launched a solo career—long before her transition—Coldplay opened for her. Even today, tickets to her sold-out shows in Copenhagen, Budapest, and London are selling for $250 each.

“I was very boxed in that metal thing,” she admits. She was going to college when the first Life of Agony album came out. “The first album I’ve ever done was released and then it pretty much exploded in Europe and I kind of had no choice but to leave school. I didn’t want to sing in a band. That wasn’t really what I set out to do. I wanted to go to Julliard. I wanted to play the classics, get good grades… and I pictured myself living more of a feminine life then at 19 when this whole alpha male world just pretty much took over. I was in hell for years.”

She says the pressure didn’t come from her bandmates, though. “Yeah it was more of a sense of responsibility and not getting labels down… the management, the band, and the fans. And I mean, we were a really, really really, really big band. We were doing concerts in Europe where 60 to 100 thousand people were showing up.”

Caputo finally quit. “I couldn’t deal anymore. Actually I quit because we came too big. Band members were becoming the cliché rock and roll, sleeping with women every night, the drugs, everything and it was just like, ‘Argh, I can’t deal, gotta go.’” She quit Life of Agony at “the pinnacle and height of our success, and yeah I needed a break. I needed a break from the label, I needed a break from everything and everyone.”

Four years later, Caputo’s first solo album came out in 2000 and as the years went on she says her true self came out. “I couldn’t hold her down anymore. I became really, very eccentric.” That led to a turbulent 2008 and a series of failed relationships with women who didn’t want a male-bodied partner who wanted mani-pedis and Brazilian waxes. Until she met her current girlfriend, Caputo says women expected her to be Keith Caputo, the rock star.

“Maybe I was some sort of status thing to them and they felt really safe… hey were with this beautiful boy and he’s famous and he writes beautiful music and he’s generous. There were a couple of girls that understood but my feminine feelings weren’t genuine [to them]… to most it was just like maybe a bed thing, a sexual fantasy kind of thing in their own mind.”

life_of_agony 10-25-2011 08:27 AM

And Part 2...

These days Caputo is still trying to explain the complexity of the bedroom — not to her girlfriend but to the media, who has been aghast that Caputo isn’t planning on having bottom surgery any time soon.

“The whole penis…I’m OK with that down there, you know. Most people don’t realize that there’s more to being a woman than just, I guess, putting on dresses and wearing makeup and your genitals. [People think] you have a male body and a penis so that makes you the man. But they can’t dig deep enough unless they really want to understand what’s going on in the subconscious mind and what I like to call subconscious sex.

“Not only is the environment changing, but people don’t realize the human being is changing, our culture is changing. I see more and more trans women and trans men and it’s just, it’s so ironic, it’s so cosmic.

“A lot of people I did come out to, friends, and family members and stuff, like people that I thought would really support me really let me down. And people that I was a little bit fearful to come out to pretty much completely had my back. I’m from a crazy Italian family so all the Italian men in my family are like stereotypical bruisers—too much testosterone, most of the men in my family have gone bald, tattooed from head to toe, vicious looking, but deep down inside they’re like flowers. I have many cousins like that that I thought would like never get it or understand and they were like, ‘We always knew something was different about you.’”

Caputo wishes people could be more sensitive to the idea of what transgender individuals go through emotionally and psychologically to “finally become this fearless entity within him or her own self.” For her, she’s at a point where “I don’t give a **** who says what or what looks I get. I’m a beautiful human being and I offer society a lot and I’m proud of who I am.”

The singer admits her first year “going through hormone therapy was murder, I thought I was going to commit suicide. It’s like I’m 34 years old going through puberty again, the whole mind changes.” Puberty in your 30s, says Caputo is odd. “Trust me, I’m like a fifteen-year-old girl. I am so goofy… one minute I’ll be really happy and giddy and laughing and joking, and an hour later I’ll be just so dispirited.”

She still feels lucky that her physical metamorphosis from angry rocker dude to, well, the fierce female musician she is today, may have been easier than some women’s. “I’m really lucky, I’m really tiny, I’m very fit. So I’m blessed. I went to the Guitar Center yesterday to shop for some guitars, and the guy’s like, ‘Hi, ma’am, how are you?’ I get all gushy inside because it’s just so nice to finally [be recognized as a woman]. And my breasts aren’t even that big, you know? But the hormones have really, really changed my body a lot. I have a great doctor. He’s amazing, he’s like my psychologist too.”

Living part time in New York City and part time in Europe, Caputo admits she’s already faced discrimination Stateside. “I’ve had run-ins on the train, ignorant people, you know, calling me ‘he-she’ or ‘he-man.’ If anyone tries to screw with me, I will not hesitate to cut somebody up like a piece of meat. I will do anything and everything to protect myself. I mean I don’t want to hurt anybody but if someone lays their hands on me, I’m going to shank somebody. My father’s been in prison his whole life, so just because I’m wearing a skirt doesn’t mean I don’t got big balls, OK? Because I will not hesitate to do anything and everything to protect myself.”

While she has the media spotlight on her, Caputo — whose new CD with the Neptune Darlings (“Chestnuts & Fireflies) is already garnering geek rock comparisons to David Bowie and Pink Floyd — is finishing up another solo album, touring Europe (as Keith M Mina and Her Sad Eyed Ladies), and trying not to let the media cacophony get her down. Fans, so far, have been behind her. Since the media picked up on her transition story, Caputo has been flooded with letters from gay fans inspired by her coming out, by former junkies now sober and clean thanks to her music, by wives of closeted transgender women who want advice. And there are plenty of date offers by male fans. Her transition is still a huge topic of discussion among rock music fans.

“I try explain to people without pushing it in people’s face too. I’m not like an activist. If someone needs my help I’d be glad to. I think it’s hysterical actually that I get these people that have been listening to me for like 20 plus years and they think they stand for something else like brutality and masculinity but meanwhile I have these guys asking me to take me to dinner.

“I’m really happy that the media really picked up on it because it was kind of like a big step three years ago, but now it seems like a full circle sort of happened and I’m happy. Newspapers all across Europe…I’m on the front page, and everybody was talking about me when I was Europe and it was like, At least get the story straight. Girlfriend is keeping their genitals and it’s not just about that.”

Though many mistake Caputo for a flamboyant gay man, she tries to explain to people that “gender has nothing to do with sexuality. And who knows what scientifically makes us transgender. Does it happen in the womb? Is it environmental? No one really knows for sure. I used to think that because my mother used to do dope, OK maybe something didn’t develop in my brain, because, when I didn’t accept myself growing up, I was like, No, I want to. Every time I had a whole girl’s wardrobe, I would go through my phases of throwing all of my clothes out. I can’t do this, I’m going to grow my beard, I’m a man. Then a month later I’m like, Oh my God, that dress is so gorgeous, I got to get it. Here I am starting up my wardrobe again.”

Now that she’s accepted herself, and found coming out had nothing but a positive impact on her music, Caputo just wants to make music her fans will like.

“I had an interesting and turbulent evolution, in every part of my life — spiritually, physically, family wise. I’ve been through crazy stuff. But it made me stronger and it made me appreciate life. I love life, I do. It’s so precious. Every moment, every waking moment is a gift, and that’s the important thing.”

Roxannah 10-31-2011 04:23 AM

:D

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/n...h79/x001-1.jpg

life_of_agony 10-31-2011 08:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1076254)

Ummm...wow!!! So, like, my name is Phil...and I am from Oz...and I love Dan Reed...so this is either a huge coincidence or you are officially the coolest chick on the planet. Ever. How? WOW!
:D

Roxannah 11-01-2011 12:35 AM

just a coincidence, obviously ;)

life_of_agony 11-01-2011 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1076291)
just a coincidence, obviously ;)

Have I told you lately that you are a mega legend and stuff?

Thanks - you are God like to me at the moment! :D

Roxannah 11-01-2011 08:36 PM

lol it was my pleasure Phil. although, mega legend and stuff seems like a good thing to be. i reckon i'll take that :D

life_of_agony 11-02-2011 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Roxannah (Post 1076321)
lol it was my pleasure Phil. although, mega legend and stuff seems like a good thing to be. i reckon i'll take that :D

Thanks once again, you are a champ :D

So much so, I am even using smilies heaps. I never use smilies. But I am smiling so it is fitting.

life_of_agony 05-02-2012 12:02 PM

Caputo has a new music video out for his (her?) brilliant song, Silver Candy.

The cool people will check it out and comment on how awesome it is:


life_of_agony 07-21-2013 12:41 AM

OK, I am massively excited.
Mina Caputo (formerly Keith) has a new album coming out soon "As Much Truth As One Can Bear", and has started an indiegogo campaign (if you're interested http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mi...s-one-can-bear).

Anyways, as part of the campaign you can have Caputo cover a song of your choice. So, I am going to be getting a version of my favourite vocalist of all time covering my favourite song of all time..."Wanted Dead Or Alive". I am so psyched. I was talking to her over facebook about it, she advised she was a Bon Jovi fan and used to have the same vocal coach as Jon Bon Jovi.

Can't begin to tell you how much I am excited about this.

life_of_agony 07-27-2013 01:48 AM

So, you guys must have missed what I said.
CAPUTO IS GONNA COVER BON JOVI!!!

Woooohooooo!!!!!

life_of_agony 10-19-2016 08:16 AM

So, this is happening.

It is already the best album of 2017. I am beyond psyched. LOA are back.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/vi...teaser-w444674

life_of_agony 05-21-2017 04:08 AM

You might think I am biased with my username and all that, however I am going to say that the new Life Of Agony album "A Place Where There's No More Pain" is probably the best album I have heard in the last decade. It is that good.
An amazing hard rock album that is killer from start to finish. Give it a listen. Trust me.


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