HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS Indian War Whoop NEW ESP-Disk 1967 psychedelic Sam Shepard!

Description: Absolutely incredible album, I think of this as one of the most unhinged, acid fried (probably) psychedelic albums I have ever heard. It certainly dosed my brain when I first heard it as a kid. This 1967 album was released on the ESP-Disk label and the group certainly took the ethos of the label (freedom for the artist to create without label interference) as an inspiration. How to describe this? It's unironic acid folk, with elements of bluegrass (in a "don't eat the blue grass" sort of way), psychedelia, audio collages, weird balladry (Michael Hurley and Steve Weber are key writers- Michael doesn't appear but his great songs do- he was kind of an adjunct member of the Rounders). Peter Stampfel is our freak MC, with vocals from Antonia, Barbara and Wendy adding to the beautiful surrealism. Includes Lee Crabtree of The Fugs, at the time. Oh, and get this, perhaps weirdest of all: the drummer is Sam Shepard, the playwright! This album is NUTS and you're going to want to fill your face with heaping handfuls of these nuts. Enjoy. More about it below. from Esp Disk site The year 1967 proved to be a strong point of the ’60s generation culture and the ever growing New York underground music scene. With the likes of David Peel & the Lower East Side, The Velvet Underground, The Godz, The Fugs, and the Holy Modal Rounders. The music is reflective of the time, and would prove to be the setting of a musical foundation for the group. Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel provided a blithe sendup of musical Americana as they mined this tradition, while introducing outrageous and zany virtuoso turns on acoustic guitar, banjo and violin. Their lyrics and vocals are uniquely their own. Their personalities were profoundly incompatible, like those of Gilbert and Sullivan. They provided the Fugs with their musical underpinnings, and they repeatedly broke up, only to reunite temporarily to record and perform for their loyal following across America. When ESP invited them to record, it was understood that they would take it as far out as they could. Peter Stampfel is outspoken in his dismay over the result, but this view is not shared by Steve Weber. - Bernard Stollman, owner of ESP-Disk' Personnel Peter Stampfel: electric fiddle, vocals  Steve Weber: guitar, vocals  Lee Crabtree: piano, organ  Sam Shepard: drums  Antonia, Barbara & Wendy: vocalsPress Quotes "...there is an unmistakable ingredient to the Holy Modal Rounder's music that seems appealing to folk lovers and trippers alike" - Andrew Kotick, Sputnick Reviews "Stampfel & Weber's speed-plus-acid train flys right off the track into the world of electricity." - Weirdo Records

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