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Robbie The Werewolf - 1964 - Live at the Waleback
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ROBBIE THE WEREWOLF: Live at the Waleback (no label US 1964)
This
is one of the rarest beatnik and monster-related lps. It was featured
in the book "Incredibly Strange Music” (which is a guidepost to any
collection like this). This is a small press, local record of a beat
poet reciting in full werewolf get up at club in California in the
early sixties.
Tracks : 1 Vampire Man 2 Drums And Guns 3 My Little Brother 4 Frankie Stein 5 That Judge 6 Censored Man 7 Count Dracula 8 Lucifer 9 Streets Of Transylvania 10 Rockin' Werewolf 11 Inside Story Of Flamenco 12 Tip-toe Through The Wolfbane 13 Censored Dooley
Live
jawdropper bohemian folk comic "real person" with monster concept.
Strummed guitar lunatic tunes about Frankenstein, the joys of
werewolfdom, and Count Dracula. A cover to die for with serial photos
of lycanthropic transformation. [RM]
--- Remarkable early
private press LP that manages to be a folk LP and a parody of a folk LP
at the same time. Half of it is monster-fan piss-takes on standards
such as "Tom Dooley", "Tip toe through the tulips", other half is
Robbie originals of varying quality, hitting an unforgettable apex with
the echo-laden Count Dracula track, which warns us to "...watch out for
those vampires, some of them are QUEER". Also daring for the time
marijuana and sex jokes, and a general bohemian counterculture feel to
it all. Some of his in-between song jokes aren't all that funny, but
the Santa Monica crowd had had enough red wine & weed to cheer and
laugh at pretty much everything, creating a nice vibe. Unique artefact,
made even more compelling by the fact that this guy later turned up in
big time band Clear Light. [PL]
I LOVED IT..... VERY FUNNY VERY HIP AND VERY UNIQUE..... VERY RECOMMENDED
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