Would like to see that. I knew him a little bit in Tuscaloosa, always liked him and his performances and his visual art: that downhome bumpin' bumpercrop of cheerful absurdism and mix & match musical and other elements at will. The avant-garage, and RIYL "Spike Lee on the box," sipping mint juleps to the tune of sound effects records, full(?)-length "Bourbon Street," "Teenage Prayer," and some others on The Complete Basement Tapes, and Pere Ubu, man even more than band. Post-Fred's mobiles/whirligigs made me think of Ed Big Daddy Roth, whose cartooning turned into ingenious model car kits. This tells all that I'm aware of,now with a link to the doc now tagged too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverend_Fred_Lane
I may have been too negatory about some others in this scene, but that's the way I heard it at the time (did like albums involving him)
The Raudelunas Marching Vegetable Band
PS to backstory comments in there: later read that Diamonda Galas credited LaDonna Smith as an early inspiration.
― dow, Tuesday, 3 April 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link