Sunday, 8 July 2012  PETE STAMPFEL & BABY GRAMPS. I've been
collecting records by the Holy Modal Rounders since the 60s.
Pete Stampfel of that group (always wonderful) has just got
together with a new partner for this CD, someone I'd never heard
of: Baby Gramps. And what a revelation. What a voice! He sounds
like a cross between Captain Beefheart and Popeye (and the noise
you get when you vibrate a 12" ruler on a school desk AND a
Mongolian mouth musician). Singing songs about monkeys with no
tails, buzzards and whales, making moonshine and ghost trains. I
just wanted to plug it.  This track isn't on this album but it
gives you an idea:     1. Great stuff. I'd never heard of him
before and have just watched a few more vids of his on youtube.
Thanks!    2. The greatest couplet in rock lyrics: from the
Fugs' New Amphetamine Shriek, written by Peter:      "There's
nine bouncing people, in one little room.     The vectors are
threading eternity's loom."