Track List:
1) Vampire Man 2) Drums And Guns 3) My
Little Brother 4) Frankie-Stein 5) That Judge 6)
Censored Man 7) Count Dracula 8) Lucifer 9) Streets Of
Transylvania 10) Rockin’ Werewolf 11) Inside Story Of
Flamenco 12) Tip Toe Through The Wolf Bane 13)
Censored Dooley
Total
Time: 40:45
OK, so here we have one of the weirdest and most bizarre
albums ever recorded. Pretty much unsurpassed in its
level of incredible strangeness, this ultra-rare album
from the early sixties (1964) California coffee- house
circuit is like no other. Robbie is a folksinger of the
frantic variety with a fetish for monsters. This
inspired some of the most bizarre songs ever committed
to vinyl. It was at The Wale Back in LA one heady night
in 1964, that Robbie's solo act was captured for
posterity by engineer Reice Hamel, now renowned as a
pioneer of live recording techniques. The patrons lapped
up Robbie's act although some of the more faint-hearted
may have experienced a frisson of terror as he prowled
amongst them, sweat dripping from his beard, laughing
maniacally, during his atmospheric 'Dracula' number.
With his long red hair and matching beard, Robbie was a
striking performer with a manic stage presence, acting
out his songs as much as singing them. His set consisted
of his original songs and uniquely reworked versions of
folk standards, played on a beat-up twelve-string
guitar. Robbie would later join The Brain Train in 1967
and his wife Barbara “Sandi” Robison would become the
lead vocalist for The Peanut Butter Conspiracy (PBC) .
Featuring liner notes from Alan Brackett of The PBC and
UK collector extraordinaire Gray Newell.
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