The Holy Modal Rounders

The Holy Modal Rounders were an American folk band to Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who emerged in the early 1960s in New York's Lower East Side as an acoustic duo. Your psychedelic folk, mostly developed under the influence of drugs, did not reflect the tastes of the masses, but had cult status.

Band History

Peter Stampfel ( born October 29, 1938 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, banjo, fiddle, vocals) and Steve Weber ( born June 22, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, guitar, vocals) met in 1963 in New York know. They went under various names (about " The Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers ", "The Temporal Worth High Steppers " or "The Motherfucker Creek Babyrapers ") before she published in 1964 her first album, The Holy Modal Rounders. Your version of Hesitation Blues is to be the first piece of music in which the term " psychedelic" is used ( in the form of " psycho -delic ").

1965, shortly after the release of their second album The Holy Modal Rounders 2, joined the two Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, to lift the Fugs from the baptism. Stampfel and Weber can be heard on some records of the Fugs.

Initially a duo, the Rounders later played in various formations. At times, members have included Sam Shepard ( drummer, playwright, actor) and Jeff Baxter (guitarist, and later with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers).

The title Birdsong from the fourth album of the Rounders The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1968), made ​​famous by the movie Easy Rider (1969).

After the album Goin ' Nowhere Fast (1980 ), the band moved to Portland, Oregon, during Stampfel in New York remained. Nearly two decades existed without the Rounders Stampfel. During this time, they were also longer in Scandinavia go.

1999 found Stampfel and Weber reunited and recorded the album Too Much Fun on. 2006 saw the documentary The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose.

Discography

  • The Holy Modal Rounders (1964 )
  • The Holy Modal Rounders 2 (1965 )
  • Indian War Whoop (1967 )
  • The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1968 )
  • Good Taste is Timeless ( 1971)
  • Alleged in Their Own Time ( 1975)
  • Last Round (1978 )
  • Goin ' Nowhere Fast (1981 )
  • Too Much Fun ( 1999)
  • Birdsong (2004)
  • Steve Weber and the Holy Modal Rounders, B.C. (2006)
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