THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS--
The Holy Modal Rounders were an American folk music duo from the Lower East Side of New York City which started in the early 1960s, consisting of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber. Their unique blend of folk music revival and psychedelia gave them a cult-like following from the late 1960s into the 1970s. For a time the band also featured prolific and famous playwright and actor, Sam Shepard.
Stampfel explained the origin of their name in the webzine Perfect Sound Forever:
We kept changing the name. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Then the Temporal Worth High Steppers. Then The Mother****er Creek Babyrapers. That was just a joke name. He was Rinky-Dink Steve the Tin Horn and I was Fast Lightning Cumquat. He was Teddy Boy Forever and I was Wild Blue Yonder. It kept changing names. Then it was the Total Modal Rounders. Then when we were stoned on pot and someone else, Steve Close maybe, said Holy Modal Rounders by mistake. We kept putting out different names and wait until someone starts calling us that then. When we got to Holy Modal Rounders, everyone decided by accumulation [sic] that we were the Holy Modal Rounders. That's the practical way to get named.[1] -wiki
...hardly a more subversive duo of crazies ever!!!
If You Want To Be A Bird (with that nice Easy Rider vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW42PzDy ... re=related
Bad Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmhoSUQd ... re=related
Soldier's Joy/Cocaine Blues/Sky Divers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRNexqpUcfk"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music".
-Aldous Huxley
