Background and Education
Schenkel was born in January 1947 in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania and attended the Philadelphia College of Art but left after one semester and set out to build a career in the world of art. As an unemployed artist he was introduced to Frank Zappa in 1967 by Sandy Hurvitz.
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