The Holy Modal Rounders

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The Holy Modal Rounders were an American folk band led by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, which formed as an acoustic duo in New York's Lower East Side in the early 1960s . Their psychedelic folk , mostly developed under the influence of drugs, did not meet the mass taste, 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 ; † February 7, 2020 in Mount Clare , West Virginia ; guitar, vocals) know each other in New York in 1963. They performed under different names (such as "The Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers", "The Temporal Worth High Steppers" or "The Motherfucker Creek Babyrapers") before they released their first album in 1964, The Holy Modal Rounders . Your version of the hesitation blues is said to be the first piece of music in which the term "psychedelic" (in the form "psycho-delic") is used.

In 1965, shortly after the release of their second album The Holy Modal Rounders 2, the two Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg joined in to launch the fugues . Stampfel and Weber can be heard on some of the Fugs albums.

Initially a duo, the Rounders later played in changing line-ups. At times members were u. a. Sam Shepard (drummer, playwright, actor) and Jeff Baxter (guitarist, later with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers ).

The title Bird Song from the Rounders' fourth album, The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1968), was best known for the 1969 film Easy Rider .

After the album Goin 'Nowhere Fast (1980), the band moved to Portland , Oregon , while Stampfel stayed in New York. The Rounders existed for almost two decades without a stomp. During this time, they were also on the road in Scandinavia for a longer period.

In 1999, Stampfel and Weber got back together and recorded the album Too Much Fun . In 2006 the documentary The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose was released .

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)
  • Bird Song (2004)
  • Steve Weber and the Holy Modal Rounders, BC (2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Peter Stapfel, Perfect Sound Forever, 1996 (see web links).
  2. ↑ Allmusic (see web links): “The Holy Modal Rounders were almost the very definition of a cult act.”
  3. ↑ Stephen P. Weber. In: davisfuneralhomewv.com, Davis Funeral Home and Onsite Crematory, accessed March 7, 2020. -
    Obituary in the New York Times, March 6, 2020.