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The Holy Modal Rounders - Peter Stampfel & Steve Webber

 

 

 

April 15, 2001 - The Holy Modal Rounders played at the Tonic club on Norfolk street in New York, continuing their new reunion. They are one of my all time favorite groups. I first saw them play at the Gaslight club on Bleeker Street in 1964. They are a real inspiration for a great many people, singing lively songs like, "Euphoria",and "Boobs-a-lot", about Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll, They blended Folk music with raunchy rock, and later expanded into the Fugs. They might not look it, but for me they were the first Punk Rockers.

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Bob Gruen is one of the most well known and respected photographers in Rock and Roll. By the mid '70s he was already regarded as one of the foremost documenters of the scene working with major attractions such as John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Tina Turner, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Kiss etc., and also covering the emerging New Wave and Punk bands including The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Clash, Sex Pistols, Ramones & Blondie.