For those of you too young to remember, the Masked Marauders album was the very feeble pay-off to a joke/hoax review (the brainchild of critic Greil Marcus) that ran in Rolling Stone. Unsurprisingly, the credulous counter-culture audience believed the super-secret recording session featuring Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon et al (recorded in Hudson's Bay no less) Marcus raved about was for real, and the good capitalists at Warner/Reprise records rushed out this piece of crap to cash in.
I actually had the vinyl back in the day, and even knowing it was a joke I still found it mostly unlistenable, with the exception of the above mildly amusing Stones pastiche. Rhino did a deluxe limited CD reissue a few years ago; you can download the whole thing over here, but unless you're extremely perverse of ears, you really needn't bother.
Ya kinda had be there in the mood;> Most of the songs are funny as you first recognize the parody, but like SNL, just go on too damn long.
ReplyDeleteI still have my vinyl and haven't listened to it in 25 or more years. May have to now.
Putting it on the Deity/Reprise label was a nice touch.
Perhaps it is my post flood sense of hhumour, but this almost caused me to baptize my laptop with morning coffee. I love this.
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still have the (scratchy) vinyl
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