I bought this record from a 99 cent bin at a record shop. I had no idea what it was until I went home and googled it. It’s a fun thing to have in my collection
If you've ever listened to Beatles Get Back outtakes or Dylan's The Great White Wonder (really the first bootleg LP ever issued) then this evokes that early rock bootleg jamming in the studio feel.
It is something similar to the bootleg "A Toot and a Snore in '74", in this case it was an authentic meeting between John, Paul Stevie Wonder and Harry Nilson... it would be interesting to take a trip about it,
@@Andres-lt7hp “A Toot and a Snore “ is the name of the bootleg and the name of a song. You can find the information in Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Toot_and_a_Snore_in_%2774
You should do a review of the band "Klaatu". The album is called "3:47 EST". When it was released in 1976, people thought it was a new mysterious Beatles record. The album had no pictures of the band, no names or credits. It became a huge conspiracy and it's a pretty interesting story.
Rolling Stone staff: I hate supergroups. They’re just attention-grabbing gimmicks with no fundamental value. Also RS staff: Hey, let’s release a gimmicky attention-grabbing article with no fundamental value.
This album came out when I was in college, and a few of my more credulous friends thought it was authentic. These were, of course, days when credulity ran rampant among us (as in the "Paul is Dead" nonsense), I guess the only song that stuck with me was "More or Less Hudson's Bay Again" which I thought was a clever parody of Dylan's style on Highway 61 revisited. And the liner notes on the album were hilarious--especially the bit about "Nookie" being the girlfriend of Nanook of the North, who stopped by the sessions purportedly on the shores of Hudson's Bay. But as the Dylan parody makes clear, they were "Not Overlooking Hudson's Bay!"
I read Glyn Johns book a few years back where he tells a story about almost helping to form a group that would have combined Bob Dylan, the stones and the Beatles. “The 72-year-old (Glyn Johns) recalls an encounter with Dylan at a New York airport in his new book Sound Man when the singer-songwriter asked if he could gauge the two bands’ potential interest in such a project. Johns had worked with both The Beatles and Stones on various records.” “[Dylan] asked me about The Beatles album I had just finished and was very complimentary about my work with The Stones over the years. In turn, I babbled about how much we had all been influenced by his work,” writes John. He said he had this idea to make a record with The Beatles and the Stones. And he asked me if I would find out whether the others would be interested. I was completely bowled over. Can you imagine the three greatest influences on popular music in the previous decade making an album together?” Rolling Stone estimates the chance meeting happened in the summer of 1969. Johns’ subsequent proposal, however, was met with varrying degrees of enthusiasm: “Keith [Richards] and George [Harrison] thought it was fantastic. But they would since they were both huge Dylan fans. Ringo [Starr], Charlie [Watts] and Bill [Wyman] were amicable to the idea as long as everyone else was interested. John [Lennon] didn’t say a flat no, but he wasn’t that interested. Paul [McCartney] and Mick [Jagger] both said absolutely not.” “I had it all figured out,” Johns continues. “We would pool the best material from Mick and Keith, Paul and John, Bob and George, and then select the best rhythm section from the two bands to suit whichever songs we were cutting. Paul and Mick were probably, right, however I would have given anything to have given it a go.”
Cool insight, I have a promo copy of this record album played it one and that was it. I was around in 1969 but did not buy it retail. Never thought Blind faith was a supergroup, just musicians making a band and a great album it was
First time I'd ever heard about this album and I've been listening to rock music since 1972. Interesting. Times were so good they could afford a throwaway like this record.
I remember reading the review in RS and wanting to hear the album. When it finally came out, I bought it knowing the joke but I still loved the LP. I still listen to it as it now takes me back to my late teen years.
I'm actually in the middle......I found a cassette of this album at a fleamarket when I was in my late teens (around 1986). Being a cassette it didn't have all the sleeve info the album did. I had no idea that it was supposed to be a supergroup until years later with the invention of the internet. I thought it was just a bunch of drunk guys having fun doin Dylan impressions and the like. Either way I consider it the best fleamarjet purchase in my life. I got it for a buck and it's still up there with some of my favorite music to listen to. Peace
if you're looking for another album in the same style as this one check out The Lemmings from national Lampoon. It had Chris Guest, Chevy Chase, John Belushi and some others. It was sort of a parody of Woodstock but along the lines of everyone offing themselves as the concert went on.
Thank you for this cool episode! 🤗 I love your series/channal!! special if your selected topic is around the beatles. 😁 (everything to do with them) If you not already done, could you make a story about the rutles? In any case: "you have catch me on the flip-side!" Greetings from Vienna, Austria - George
What the hell??! A Cow Palace reference on a fake album made by a fake super group that includes several Beatles, amazing. I practically live in the shadow of this still standing events venue, located in Daly City (directly south of San Francisco), and a regular location The Beatles visited in several of their U.S. tours.
The Back Story was in the Inner sleeve area where a printed pieces of paper told how the record came about. I had as many as a DOZEN Copies and still have one (someplace, I hope.) I personally love the Album and think the music and production were awesome. In many ways it's the best Rock Humor Record ever made, beating National Lampoon's records which were always fun to own. .... I never ever knew another person with the album in their collection, but I had a lot records that did badly in the market, but are sometimes considered the greatest recordings (i.e. Captain Beefheart / Trout Mask Replica which I owned Dozens of Copies over the years) .... I don't think the Mask Mauraders are as important, but it's a CLASSIC that was forgotten about almost as soon as the Album's release.
I would see it in thrift stores and bargain bins all the time in the 90s and after seeing it mentioned in one of the RE/SEARCH 'Incredibly Strange Music" books I paid a whole dollar for a copy. Agreed the best thing about it is the Jagger impression on 'Nookie'
I can't think of a joke band but have you done a review of Klaatu? the Band that was sold as the Beatles reconstituted in the mid 70's ... would love to hear your review of " 3:47 EST" or "Hope"
I just pick it up Tonight In the dollar bin section at amoeba.. berkeley ca...zappa esque! I got the only copy That had benn there for a couple of years at least!
I wqas around when this first came out. Not sure how I became aware of it, but knew it was a joke from the beginning. I did pickup a copy back then and have it on discnow just for nostalgia. I still think its a pretty good joke.
To this day, any time I play Nookie for anybody not familiar with the album or story behind it, they actually think it's The Rolling Stones. The singer does a rather convincing Mick Jagger upon casual listening. A closer listen, though, indicates that it's just an imitator. Of course these are the same rubes who thinks Lies is an actual Beatles song, and A Public Execution is a Bob Dylan song. (For those keeping score, Lies is by The Knickerbockers, and A Public Execution is by Mouse and The Traps. If you really want to have some fun, though, play She's So Fine for somebody who's not familiar with Jimi Hendrix. Lots of people actually think it's The Who)
IMHO, about 95% of what you say is Very Interesting. One of the BIGGEST Mistakes in your story is how Rolling Stones was it had a BIG BIG Subscription base equal to say Playboy for that time (1969.) It's very true they got big quick, but they were not that big yet and most of their display rack issues were limited to 'Head Shops,' because 'Rolling Stones Mag.' was still considered a 'Lefty Mag.' .... So a lot of what you say after you said that I figure is based on supposition to your version of facts. *Getting to the Point:* I think the guys at Rolling Stone were amazed, had the support of the Mag to do more and the GREEDY RECORD COMPANY wanted to own it. .... The Greedy Record company thought man loook hooooww welll this Project has done with almost no cost and I bet this will do great so lets PRINT UP a bunch of copies because it's all PROFIT... We Own It, they say. So that's my version using some of your information ;)
Wasn't there a second 1975 Masked Marauders LP? Yellowish cover? I swear I saw it years ago in a dollar bin when I didn't have any money for it. I do have the first one.
Woah man this just like totally blows my mind you know it’s just so far out there it can never come back man and they say we only use 10% of our brains man and this just really totally proves that and it’s really groovy and I dig it man but I didn’t dig being lied to you know it’s just not cool
As far as a "joke band" is concerned, 2 characters from the T.V. sitcom, "Laverne and Shirley" released an album titled, "Lenny & Squiggy Present Lenny and the Squigtones". Arguably one might suggest "The Blues Brothers" from Saturday Night Live and another may add SCTV's "Bob and Doug McKenzie"; however, the latter only had 2 songs on their album while the rest were skits like Cheech and Chong did on 2 of their LPs.
@@marzcapone9939 Guest even played in the Squigtones under the pseudonym of Nigel Tufnel, the name he would adopt for Spinal Tap. There's even liner notes on the Lenny & Squiggy LP about how Tufnel invented the collapsible wine glass & then I later saw a RUclips video made much lower, which showed Nigel with his collapsible wine glass invention.
that article is hilarious and i can't believe anyone took it seriously. Oh Happy Day from Li'l Abner? Genius. and those liner notes! Leading experts now estimate that the music business is currently 90% hype and 10% bullshit. The Masked Marauders have gone beyond that. Their music needs no hype. so it's 100% bullshit. lol
Boy oh boy where do I even begin on this album? Really? $15,000 Warner Bros wasted on this piece of junk? Wouldn’t surprise me if these guys were all drugged up during these sessions.
I’ve heard this putrid piece, and believe me, there are scratched polka and Mitch Miller albums that are better. Got rid of it within a week of finding it.
Lyrics a brilliant parody of Dylan from his, uh, what was that song's name again, oh: "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" on Bringing It All Back Home LP period. Just heard one of the Marauders do "More Or Less Hudson's Bay Again" at Harold (Adler)'s Art House Gallery in Berkeley last night. Funny, though: when singing it he sounded just like Neil Young, not Tom Thumb, I mean Bob Dylan's blues. (Dylan fans'll know what I'm riffing about.) Anyway, love these guys! Parodies are really good, not like most efforts at recreating famous rock voices which are mostly overdone and thus fake-sounding fakes.
Greil Marcus, always wrong, and wrong again this time. What kind of a tin-eared jag-off would think that CSN, Blind Faith, Humble Pie, etc. were "junk" being sold by clever marketing? You know what real junk sold by clever marketing is? Greil Marcus' career.
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Imagine a supergroup with Dylan and Harrison. That would be so cool. Maybe even throw Tom Petty in there, and the guy who produced some of his albums.
Can’t tell if you know them or not, but here you go ruclips.net/user/TravelingWilburysOfficial
@@Mandrake591 Lynne's the only artist involved that I care about
@@Pr0jectFM I like ELO on their own, I just didn't like what Lynne did with George Harrison, Macca, Starr, etcetera......just my opinion.
@@Mandrake591 I agree.
yeah they are called the travelling wilburys lol
I bought this record from a 99 cent bin at a record shop. I had no idea what it was until I went home and googled it. It’s a fun thing to have in my collection
Wish man that for real? .. nah man I believe you that’s just so far out and perfect you know and it was so cheap man and like really totally groovy
"Dylan doing a superb imitation of early Donovan" should have been a dead giveaway!
🤣 I know, really? But then he was probably kicking himself that he didn't think of it himself first.
Dang, I first heard of this album thanks to he “This Exists” web series a long time ago. God I miss that show
same I miss Sam and wish he would bring thr show back either with a new host or him
Interesante, ignoraba su existencia, sin embargo se escucha con claridad que no son ellos.
the show is still around just with a diffrent name
If you've ever listened to Beatles Get Back outtakes or Dylan's The Great White Wonder (really the first bootleg LP ever issued) then this evokes that early rock bootleg jamming in the studio feel.
I love your historical episodes. This is pretty interesting.
It is something similar to the bootleg "A Toot and a Snore in '74", in this case it was an authentic meeting between John, Paul Stevie Wonder and Harry Nilson... it would be interesting to take a trip about it,
Its the name of a song? Searching for ir but can’t find it, under the name of who was published?
@@Andres-lt7hp “A Toot and a Snore “ is the name of the bootleg and the name of a song. You can find the information in Wikipedia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Toot_and_a_Snore_in_%2774
You should do a review of the band "Klaatu". The album is called "3:47 EST". When it was released in 1976, people thought it was a new mysterious Beatles record. The album had no pictures of the band, no names or credits. It became a huge conspiracy and it's a pretty interesting story.
The fact that they all did play together at some point throughout their careers makes this mock band even more funny. I always loved the attempt!
Rolling Stone staff: I hate supergroups. They’re just attention-grabbing gimmicks with no fundamental value.
Also RS staff: Hey, let’s release a gimmicky attention-grabbing article with no fundamental value.
And didn’t tell anybody it was a joke until the album was out and sold a few thousand copy’s
I'd never heard of this before - cool story, cool video!
4 days ago?
@@TheChucklesTM patreon
Mans went back in time to watch the video
@@TheChucklesTM Patreon subscribers get to watch the videos before they go public.
@@tremoloman makes sense, ty
1:32 but we all know they would sound like “The Traveling Wilburys” who are the greatest supergroup of all time
I feel like you've sold me a briefcase in my dreams before.
This album came out when I was in college, and a few of my more credulous friends thought it was authentic. These were, of course, days when credulity ran rampant among us (as in the "Paul is Dead" nonsense), I guess the only song that stuck with me was "More or Less Hudson's Bay Again" which I thought was a clever parody of Dylan's style on Highway 61 revisited. And the liner notes on the album were hilarious--especially the bit about "Nookie" being the girlfriend of Nanook of the North, who stopped by the sessions purportedly on the shores of Hudson's Bay. But as the Dylan parody makes clear, they were "Not Overlooking Hudson's Bay!"
I read Glyn Johns book a few years back where he tells a story about almost helping to form a group that would have combined Bob Dylan, the stones and the Beatles.
“The 72-year-old (Glyn Johns) recalls an encounter with Dylan at a New York airport in his new book Sound Man when the singer-songwriter asked if he could gauge the two bands’ potential interest in such a project. Johns had worked with both The Beatles and Stones on various records.”
“[Dylan] asked me about The Beatles album I had just finished and was very complimentary about my work with The Stones over the years. In turn, I babbled about how much we had all been influenced by his work,” writes John.
He said he had this idea to make a record with The Beatles and the Stones. And he asked me if I would find out whether the others would be interested. I was completely bowled over. Can you imagine the three greatest influences on popular music in the previous decade making an album together?”
Rolling Stone estimates the chance meeting happened in the summer of 1969. Johns’ subsequent proposal, however, was met with varrying degrees of enthusiasm: “Keith [Richards] and George [Harrison] thought it was fantastic. But they would since they were both huge Dylan fans. Ringo [Starr], Charlie [Watts] and Bill [Wyman] were amicable to the idea as long as everyone else was interested. John [Lennon] didn’t say a flat no, but he wasn’t that interested. Paul [McCartney] and Mick [Jagger] both said absolutely not.”
“I had it all figured out,” Johns continues. “We would pool the best material from Mick and Keith, Paul and John, Bob and George, and then select the best rhythm section from the two bands to suit whichever songs we were cutting. Paul and Mick were probably, right, however I would have given anything to have given it a go.”
You have the most unique and enjoyable set. Love the 50's and 60's backdrops, and the record player is the icing on the cake. Great channel
Of course I get a Bob Dylan vinyl advert with this video.
Love this video Geek.
To be fair, the Jagger vocal on Book of Love does sound a lot like the Stones' version of "My Girl".
Cool insight, I have a promo copy of this record album played it one and that was it.
I was around in 1969 but did not buy it retail.
Never thought Blind faith was a supergroup, just musicians making a band and a great album it was
First time I'd ever heard about this album and I've been listening to rock music since 1972. Interesting. Times were so good they could afford a throwaway like this record.
Found this for a dollar today. And even though I've been watching ya for awhile now. I never knew you did a video on them.
11:00 🤣🤣🤣 "Paul Simon going thru puberty"! I thought Tom & Jerry covered that already
I remember reading the review in RS and wanting to hear the album. When it finally came out, I bought it knowing the joke but I still loved the LP. I still listen to it as it now takes me back to my late teen years.
I'm actually in the middle......I found a cassette of this album at a fleamarket when I was in my late teens (around 1986). Being a cassette it didn't have all the sleeve info the album did. I had no idea that it was supposed to be a supergroup until years later with the invention of the internet. I thought it was just a bunch of drunk guys having fun doin Dylan impressions and the like. Either way I consider it the best fleamarjet purchase in my life. I got it for a buck and it's still up there with some of my favorite music to listen to.
Peace
Sounds like an interesting story! Crazy that some people believed this!
And don’t start me on the idiots that still think Paul is dead
16:14 what about “The Rutles”
I guess Greil Marcus didn't care for Derek & The Dominos or The Traveling Wilburys either
I bought the Masked Marauders "bootleg" LP, in October, 1969, a few weeks before Abbey Road came out. My copy came with a plain white sleeve, with the words "the Masked Marauders" stamped on the cover, and a plain label with typed song titles. It clearly wasn't Dylan, John, Paul, George, and Mick, but the songs were in the vein of those artists. I paid a whopping $2.79 ($22.87, today) for it, didn't feel cheated at all. I knew going in it was a scam, but it was good fun, and the "Paul is Dead" scam was running around the same time (I still have the Berkeley Barb with the cover announcing Paul's "death").
As for Greil Marcus (usually pronounced (Grile", in the day), he was frequently off. Here is an excerpt from his review of Let It Bleed:
"Let It Bleed is the last album from the Rolling Stones we’ll see before the sixties, already gone really, become the seventies; it has the crummiest cover art since Flowers and a credit sheet that looks like it was designed by a government printing office. The tones of the music are at once dark and perfectly clear, the words are slurred and often buried. The Stones as a band, and Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Merry Clayton, Nanette Newman, Doris Troy, Madeline Bell, and the London Bach Choir as singers sometimes carry the songs far past their lyrics. There’s a glimpse of a story-not much more."
-- Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone, 12/27/69
I didn't agree with Greil much, then or now. Let It Bleed is arguably the Stone's finest LP, and the centerpiece of their best work, the incomparable suite from 1965 to 1971 of Aftermath, TSMR, Between the Buttons, Beggars Banquet, LIB, and Sticky Fingers (I was never a fan of Exile on Main Street, finding it too similar to the excesses of GHS, and IORnR), basic rock 'n' roll meant to be played at volume, expressing teenage angst and rage (even if Mick and Keith were in their 30s, at the end). Marcus loved Arthur, the Kinks first concept album (if one ignores Face to Face, their 1966 masterpiece about the trials of being a wealthy pop star in decline, built around the hit Sunny Afternoon), saying it was "less ambitious and ... more musical than Tommy".
As a long-term Kinks fan, TRIED hard to like Arthur, but ultimately couldn't. He didn't like Blind Faith (three great songs on Side One of the album, plus a credible cover of a Buddy Holly song, not bad, Side Two was a dud), or CSN/Y (the 1st LP, plus Deja Vu, and the concert triple, 1974, speak for themselves). He did like the Slits, one of the few (mostly "reviewers") who did. I have the 1st Slits LP, but I found it unlistenable. Different music for different tastes, the essence of rock 'n' roll, everybody under one big tent.
I always thought of Greil as someone who thought rock'n'roll was betrayed by the Beatles and the British Invasion (there were a number of these) crowding out Doo-Wop, the Four Seasons, and Rockabilly. I disagreed, believing the three years before the Beatles' arrival on the music scene to be a hotbed of the worst of Top 40 thinking and the Tin Pan Alley version "rock and roll" (the Brill Building was part of TPA, not particularly independent, or ground-breaking). One had to be there, to fully understand it. There were good songs, but they were the outliers, and "albums" were simply opportunities to sell singles for more money.
Like a lot "of reviewers", Greil Marcus took his own opinions a tad seriously. He thought the Masked Marauders scam was what the record-buying public deserved, a slap in the face to readers. I bought the record to have, because it was the topic of conversation that week, and a collectible, either way. Looking at your cover, I wondered if mine wasn't truly a "bootleg". Mine was a plain white cover, with The Masked Marauders ink-stamped slightly off-level in the upper corner. I also bought LiveR than You'll Ever Be, the early-1970 bootleg of the Stones '69 tour, and later, the Bob Dylan Ten of Swords bootleg, both white-cover ink-stamps, cuz they were part of the record. I got what I was expecting, in both cases, not great sonics, but the immediacy of live-without-sweetening-acoustics.
There were things happening daily, among the artists of the era (Arthur Lee and Jimi Hendrix at Thee Experience, for a week -- they weren't there every day, and they were never advertised, just happenings), but the information about them was largely word-of-mouth, local fanzines (LA Free Press, BAM, and Play!), and AM-Top 40 radio, already on a death spiral caused by FM radio's relaxed approach. Bootlegs offered a glimpse into some of these. Greil Marcus tapped into that interest with a deep fake, on the heels of the McCartney Is Dead scam, followed through with an album made by local SF artists of the time, probably made a small pile of money, never regretted any of it. "Caveat emptor", the dodge used by conmen of every time and place. It's become such a business constant, it's used by ex-Presidents, televangelists, Fox (it's NOT the) News, and billionaire "investors" daily, if not hourly.
At the time, Rolling Stone magazine was only two years old, there were no national reviewers, per se, no programs about what was out, but commentators in every market, every medium-sized newspaper and up, some of whom were quoted. The entertainment behemoth we know today was still in its infancy. The Beatles stopped touring because of miserable quality of facilities, many of which had no "performer dressing room", only "team locker rooms", and sound equipment from the Stone Age. George was severely shocked when he plugged his guitar in, in Cleveland '65, I think, and the promoter responded by threatening the sue the boys if they didn't go on, anyway. Life on the road in the sixties was less than idyllic. It was no picnic, by any description.
BTW, the Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band provided the back-up for Greil and Langdon Winner's album. Martin Mull was a member. Good fun was had by all.
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Vinyl Rewind should do a video about Klaatu, a rumour of The Beatles reunited in the 1970s.
It has a few.
The Onion should remake it. Their retro satire in Our Dumb Century was outstanding.
Not sure if this was one of the subtle hints in the original satirical review, but there was no such thing as the "Hudson Bay Colony."
It's amazing what the public will believe!
if you're looking for another album in the same style as this one check out The Lemmings from national Lampoon. It had Chris Guest, Chevy Chase, John Belushi and some others. It was sort of a parody of Woodstock but along the lines of everyone offing themselves as the concert went on.
You should do a video on wish you were here. Or the final cut.
Thank you for this cool episode! 🤗 I love your series/channal!! special if your selected topic is around the beatles. 😁 (everything to do with them)
If you not already done, could you make a story about the rutles?
In any case: "you have catch me on the flip-side!"
Greetings from Vienna, Austria - George
What the hell??! A Cow Palace reference on a fake album made by a fake super group that includes several Beatles, amazing. I practically live in the shadow of this still standing events venue, located in Daly City (directly south of San Francisco), and a regular location The Beatles visited in several of their U.S. tours.
How does one dislike a vid that gives you underground info. Also I am sure 95% didnt even know this happened.
I fell for it and I still have it. Listened to it maybe once.
The Back Story was in the Inner sleeve area where a printed pieces of paper told how the record came about. I had as many as a DOZEN Copies and still have one (someplace, I hope.) I personally love the Album and think the music and production were awesome. In many ways it's the best Rock Humor Record ever made, beating National Lampoon's records which were always fun to own.
.... I never ever knew another person with the album in their collection, but I had a lot records that did badly in the market, but are sometimes considered the greatest recordings (i.e. Captain Beefheart / Trout Mask Replica which I owned Dozens of Copies over the years)
.... I don't think the Mask Mauraders are as important, but it's a CLASSIC that was forgotten about almost as soon as the Album's release.
I would see it in thrift stores and bargain bins all the time in the 90s and after seeing it mentioned in one of the RE/SEARCH 'Incredibly Strange Music" books I paid a whole dollar for a copy. Agreed the best thing about it is the Jagger impression on 'Nookie'
Too funny, yet another great video, thanks man!
Aww... I was really looking forward to that "Kick Out the Jams" cover
I got a used copy of this album back in the 80's. I still have it and haven't played it since then. I found it rather a yawn as an album.
I was 15 years old when this was released and was buying about an album per week, but have no recollection of it whatsoever.
The urban legend was The Residents made the album. There's definitely some similarities.
I should have a look at the review, I have all the RS mags of that period.
I found this album in really good condition in a box of my grandpa’s recorda
I can't think of a joke band but have you done a review of Klaatu? the Band that was sold as the Beatles reconstituted in the mid 70's ... would love to hear your review of " 3:47 EST" or "Hope"
Love this channel so underrated
I just pick it up Tonight In the dollar bin section at amoeba.. berkeley ca...zappa esque! I got the only copy That had benn there for a couple of years at least!
Their music is so underrated....
I dunno...that drum solo is pretty hilarious.
Imagine trying to pull that joke off today now you get canceled for making a joke look like that
Ehhh Strange and Unusual tales! my favorite episodes!
I wqas around when this first came out. Not sure how I became aware of it, but knew it was a joke from the beginning. I did pickup a copy back then and have it on discnow just for nostalgia. I still think its a pretty good joke.
if this WAS real it would be a crime not to give mccartney any vocals 😵
To this day, any time I play Nookie for anybody not familiar with the album or story behind it, they actually think it's The Rolling Stones. The singer does a rather convincing Mick Jagger upon casual listening. A closer listen, though, indicates that it's just an imitator. Of course these are the same rubes who thinks Lies is an actual Beatles song, and A Public Execution is a Bob Dylan song. (For those keeping score, Lies is by The Knickerbockers, and A Public Execution is by Mouse and The Traps. If you really want to have some fun, though, play She's So Fine for somebody who's not familiar with Jimi Hendrix. Lots of people actually think it's The Who)
“Cow Pie”… hilarious!
You can get a good to very good condition copy of it on eBay for 10/15 bucks with out the corner cut off or a whole drilled in it
"Stuck in the middle" : I see what you did there.
More Or Less Scenic Hudson's Bay is my fave. If you don't get the joke.....what really is so scenic? LOL
I had this on 8 track and it sure fooled me and everone who heard it..still got it somewhere..
Have the original, 1969. Really great music, and what a cool prank.
Could you take a look at the 2020 release of Some Girls on vinyl?
It's the first Traveling Wilburys!!!
Never heard of this. Very interesting.
Cow Pie was actually pretty nice.
IMHO, about 95% of what you say is Very Interesting. One of the BIGGEST Mistakes in your story is how Rolling Stones was it had a BIG BIG Subscription base equal to say Playboy for that time (1969.) It's very true they got big quick, but they were not that big yet and most of their display rack issues were limited to 'Head Shops,' because 'Rolling Stones Mag.' was still considered a 'Lefty Mag.'
.... So a lot of what you say after you said that I figure is based on supposition to your version of facts. *Getting to the Point:* I think the guys at Rolling Stone were amazed, had the support of the Mag to do more and the GREEDY RECORD COMPANY wanted to own it.
.... The Greedy Record company thought man loook hooooww welll this Project has done with almost no cost and I bet this will do great so lets PRINT UP a bunch of copies because it's all PROFIT... We Own It, they say.
So that's my version using some of your information ;)
I seen footage of this sessions.
Probably "The WonderBand"? 🤔❤⚡
Nice Sansui speakers.
great video
TIL that Langdon Winner, a now-renowned philosopher of technology, was the pianist for this album. what
This bring up the potential story/myth/truth(?) that Paul McCartney or Mick Jagger were in the Residents for a while.
What...is this actually the Residents in disguise again?
The dirty macs John Lennon ,Eric Clapton ,Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell
Not really a prank but the band Klaatu pretended to be the Beatles reunited under a new name to build hype for their album
That would really be cool honestly.
wait where’s ringo
Wasn't there a second 1975 Masked Marauders LP? Yellowish cover? I swear I saw it years ago in a dollar bin when I didn't have any money for it. I do have the first one.
Never mind. I was mixing up Klaatu and Masked Marauders' Masked Marauders Radio on Spotify.
Woah man this just like totally blows my mind you know it’s just so far out there it can never come back man and they say we only use 10% of our brains man and this just really totally proves that and it’s really groovy and I dig it man but I didn’t dig being lied to you know it’s just not cool
This is cool
My Albums vinyl paper label in the center is white with the Diety/Reprise info design.
Yours must be a latter reprint.
I just pickup this album up I rated it
3 Stars out of 5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐
The best supergroup will always be Emerson, Lake, and Palmer in my opinion
I didn’t know ELP were a supergroup for the longest time, till i watched Prog Rock Britannia. You’re right, they are the best supergroup.
As far as a "joke band" is concerned, 2 characters from the T.V. sitcom, "Laverne and Shirley" released an album titled, "Lenny & Squiggy Present Lenny and the Squigtones". Arguably one might suggest "The Blues Brothers" from Saturday Night Live and another may add SCTV's "Bob and Doug McKenzie"; however, the latter only had 2 songs on their album while the rest were skits like Cheech and Chong did on 2 of their LPs.
Christopher Guest was part of the Squigtones, and then Spinal Tap with Michael McKean.
@@marzcapone9939 Classic, turn it to ELEVEN!🤘
@@marzcapone9939 Guest even played in the Squigtones under the pseudonym of Nigel Tufnel, the name he would adopt for Spinal Tap. There's even liner notes on the Lenny & Squiggy LP about how Tufnel invented the collapsible wine glass & then I later saw a RUclips video made much lower, which showed Nigel with his collapsible wine glass invention.
that article is hilarious and i can't believe anyone took it seriously. Oh Happy Day from Li'l Abner? Genius.
and those liner notes! Leading experts now estimate that the music business is currently 90% hype and 10% bullshit. The Masked Marauders have gone beyond that. Their music needs no hype.
so it's 100% bullshit. lol
Boy oh boy where do I even begin on this album? Really? $15,000 Warner Bros wasted on this piece of junk? Wouldn’t surprise me if these guys were all drugged up during these sessions.
That drum solo says yes. Yes they were. And if they weren't, that's a real shame.
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Maybe they wanted to make a very bad record like the Shaggs, which released Philosophy of the World on the same year.
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Hey there
I have a White label promo of this lp for DJ use. Included is the review and tell you the truth, it sucks, thx!
UNUSAL
I’ve heard this putrid piece, and believe me, there are scratched polka and Mitch Miller albums that are better. Got rid of it within a week of finding it.
Lyrics a brilliant parody of Dylan from his, uh, what was that song's name again, oh: "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" on Bringing It All Back Home LP period. Just heard one of the Marauders do "More Or Less Hudson's Bay Again" at Harold (Adler)'s Art House Gallery in Berkeley last night. Funny, though: when singing it he sounded just like Neil Young, not Tom Thumb, I mean Bob Dylan's blues. (Dylan fans'll know what I'm riffing about.) Anyway, love these guys! Parodies are really good, not like most efforts at recreating famous rock voices which are mostly overdone and thus fake-sounding fakes.
Classic rolling stone making stuff up lol
Greil Marcus, always wrong, and wrong again this time. What kind of a tin-eared jag-off would think that CSN, Blind Faith, Humble Pie, etc. were "junk" being sold by clever marketing? You know what real junk sold by clever marketing is? Greil Marcus' career.
I don't think these two funnytellers could deliver a decent LP out of nowhere.
First 👍❤️
Did I help inspire you to make this video? 😉