"Stampfel and Weber were introduced to each other by Greenwich Village figure Antonia, who also wrote or co-wrote many of their songs.
Their first album, The Holy Modal Rounders, released in 1964, contained their version of "Hesitation Blues", the lyrics of which included the first use of the term psychedelic (here pronounced "psycho-delic") in popular music."
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"The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who began performing together on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1960s.
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 group also included the playwright and actor Sam Shepard.
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Flaming Lips setlist from the Pine Street Theater, Portland Oregon.
Chip Walker got it after working security for the show.
Year to be ascertained....1996-7.
I don't know if Chip had met the Flaming Lips before, but I had. They are fellow Okies, and Nathan, from Mauschovonian Love Beat of Stillwater played on an album, Priest Driven Ambulance.
Hung out with the Flaming Lips a little in the parking lot after they played the Grand Emporium in Kansas City. They didn't smoke weed, apparently. They played that show SO LOUD they made jokes about inducing labor in a pregnant woman there.
Saw the Lips many times; The Bottleneck, Lawrence Ks
But my childhood friend Russel Averett sic says they played his wedding in OKC in the late 1980s.
Notes, Motes.---flb
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"Their fourth album, The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders, recorded in 1968, included "Bird Song" (essentially Ray Price's "You Done Me Wrong" with altered lyrics), which was featured in Dennis Hopper's film Easy Rider.
In 1968, the band performed "You've Got the Right String but the Wrong Yo Yo" on the TV series Laugh-In, with appearances by the park-bench oldtimers played by Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson."
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