You know, I don't have a lot of fear as some do about being sent to live at a retirement home one day (probably one day next week, judging by the frequency of my memory lapses). I imagine sitting around the common areas with a lot of other similarly medicated oldsters, eating applesauce and listening to marginally talented but earnest musicians playing toe tappin' (if neuralgia allows) music like today's album by the Mom and Dads. Before I get called to my sponge bath by some beefy guy named Horst.
The Mom and Dads hailed from Spokane Washington and inexplicably recorded nine albums during the 1970s, which really seems like the least likely era for them to have recorded. I suspect many of their fans were Middle Americans who liked to keep the blinders on against the reality exploding around their blue-tinted hair--which is surely why I found four M and D albums in one Goodwill bin in a small town just south of Indianapolis.
They seem to favor tunes that have no bridge--or at least they seem to only play the recognizable part of the melody again and again. And again and again and again. Like a profoundly damaged individual thunking his head against the wall, because it's oddly comforting. Thunk. Thunk. Thunk.
Anytime:
The photo of the Mom and Dads came from here.
Get the album here.
3 comments:
A reverse polygamy family making the Dads brother-husbands?
You can come visit us at our "retirement farm" in Oakland, if you like. Gunshots, chickens, albums moldering in the garage; could be fun!!!
Thanks for the info. I thought these guys were Canadians. I guess Spokane was too hep for them and they had to move to Calgary. We useta get Moms & Dads LPs by the gross at the charity I worked for. Tons would come in but nary a one would go out - nobody would buy this stuff. Interesting that they were on GNP Crescendo at the same time as Sky Saxon & The Seeds. They shoulda got together to record a jam session on "Mr Farmer" - it woulda sold big on both sides of the border.
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