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Stampfel also formed the short-lived (1975–77) Unholy Modal Rounders with Kirby Pines, Charlie Messing, Jeff Berman and Paul Presti. The band released their fifth album, Good Taste is Timeless, in 1971 on Metromedia, and their sixth, Alleged in their Own Time, in 1975 on Rounder Records. Stampfel stayed in New York but would play and record with the band on occasion. In 1970, Robin Remailly and Dave Reisch joined the band, which relocated to Boston and then Oregon, adding Ted Deane, Roger North, and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter.

#Fugs 4 rounders score series#

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 duo played by Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson.

'Bird Song' was essentially Ray Price's 'You Done Me Wrong' with altered lyrics and was prominently featured in Dennis Hopper's film Easy Rider. The fourth album, The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders, recorded in 1968, included 'Bird Song'. Weber notably wrote the cult classic 'Boobs a Lot' for the Fugs, which the Rounders would later record themselves on the Good Taste is Timeless LP.Īfter leaving the Fugs, the Rounders reformed with Sam Shepard and Lee Crabtree to record their third album ( Indian War Whoop), and to appear in Shepard's play Forensic. Their 1965 recordings with the Fugs appear on the albums The Village Fugs, Virgin Fugs, and Fugs 4, Rounders Score. Shortly after their second album in 1965, The Holy Modal Rounders 2, they joined Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg in The Fugs for a short time. The Rounders' first album, The Holy Modal Rounders, was released in 1964, and their version of ' Hesitation Blues' featured the first use of the term 'psychedelic' (here pronounced as 'psycho-delic') in popular music. Stampfel and Weber were introduced to each other by Greenwich Village figure, Antonia, who also wrote or co-wrote many of their songs. When we got to Holy Modal Rounders, everyone decided by accumulation that we were the Holy Modal Rounders. We kept putting out different names and wait until someone starts calling us that then. Then when we were stoned on pot and someone else, Steve Close maybe, said Holy Modal Rounders by mistake.

He was Teddy Boy Forever and I was Wild Blue Yonder. He was Rinky-Dink Steve the Tin Horn and I was Fast Lightning Cumquat. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Stampfel explained the origin of their name in the webzine Perfect Sound Forever: We kept changing the name.