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.
3 comments:
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.
I 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.
Trey
still have the (scratchy) vinyl
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