The Complete Deity Recordings

The Complete Deity Recordings Artist: The Masked Marauders
Label: Rhino Handmade
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 603497774623
EAN: 0603497774623
ASIN: B0000DJYP7


Release Date: 2003-11-04

The Complete Deity Recordings


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Tracks:

  1. I Can't Get No Nookie
  2. Duke of Earl
  3. Cow Pie
  4. I Am the Japanese Sandman (Rang Tang Ding Dong)
  5. Book of Love
  6. Later
  7. More or Less Hudson's Bay Again
  8. Season of the Witch
  9. Saturday Night at the Cow Palace
  10. Cow Pie [Mono Single Version][*]
  11. I Can't Get No Nookie [Mono Single Version][*]

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  1. Super Session
  2. Modern Times (Deluxe Edition With Bonus DVD)

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars The almost true story of The Masked Marauders.......2005-06-02

All too often an in-joke or obvious tongue-in-cheek reference is taken by the public as a straight story. A notorious example of this phenomenon occurred in 1969, when a joke review of a non-existent album featuring some of rock's biggest stars was printed in Rolling Stone magazine and prompted the release of a satirical imitation, which people then mistook for the real thing!

The saga began when rock critic Greil Marcus (under the pseudonym of "T.M. Christian"), prompted by a recent Rolling Stone article about sales of a double bootleg album of unreleased Bob Dylan material ("Great White Wonder," often cited as the first bootleg record) wrote a fictitious review of another "bootleg" album entitled "The Masked Marauders" for the 18 October 1969 issue of Rolling Stone. The name "Masked Marauders" was supposedly a flimsy deception employed by Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and others, all of whom had gotten together and recorded a "supergroup" album (allegedly produced by Al Kooper) that could not be released under their real names because they were all under contract to different record companies. Even though the "review" contained plenty of clues to indicate it was nothing more than a bit of humorous fun (e.g., the session was said to have been recorded "in a small town near the site of the original Hudson Bay Colony in Canada" and featured Paul McCartney singing "Mammy," Mick Jagger warbling "I Can't Get No Nookie," and Bob Dylan imitating Donovan), more than a few readers didn't get the put-on and went looking for the album at their local record stores.

As demand for the mythical record grew, Marcus and fellow Rolling Stone critic/editor Langdon Winner took the gag a step further by recruiting a group of Berkeley musicians (since claimed to have been the personnel who comprised The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band) to record a group of songs matching those described in the review (right down to imitating the voices of the famous singers putatively involved); the tape received local radio airplay and was eventually bought by Warner Bros. music, who issued it as an album on their Reprise label. (The LP actually appeared as a Deity/Reprise record, since the faux review had listed it as a Deity release, and a single -- I Can't Get No Nookie b/w Cow Pie -- was issued as Deity 0870.)

4 out of 5 stars In A World Of "Sham", This Is The Genuine Article!.......2003-11-15

An album that caused much curiosity as well as controversy when it was released late in 1969. The entire concept and mystique of The Masked Marauders (many would call it a hoax) was the brainchild of a then-staff writer at Rolling Stone magazine. From the beginning, the writer only intended it to be a joke, and pushed it to the extreme by printing a phony article about the band in Rolling Stone, as well as touting the upcoming release of the album. The joke obviously worked from the writer's point of view, but apparently, the record-buying public didn't get it.

The Masked Marauders were rumored to consist of Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan, all of whom supposedly performed on the record anonymously and without photos to preserve the "secrecy" (hence the group's name). This caused the rumor mill to churn, and public anticipation of the album was so high that people lined up in droves at record shops to buy it on the day it was released. But as it turned out, the Masked Marauders were indeed not the "supergroup" everyone thought them to be, but actually a group of struggling studio musicians calling themselves "The Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band". Confused? Don't feel bad, everyone else was, too!

The album's hilarious liner notes alone showed that it totally reeked of farce, with the aforementioned Rolling Stone writer composing them under the pseudonym "T.M. Christian". For those of you who don't understand what that means, "T.M. Christian" is a play on words for a Peter Sellers movie from that same period called "The Magic Christian", which also featured Ringo Starr. That probably explains why Ringo didn't have time to appear on the Masked Marauders album (tongue firmly in cheek there!) The best bits of the liner notes are, and I quote: "leading experts now estimate that the music industry is 90% hype and 10% bulls**t"; and "in a world of sham, the Masked Marauders, bless their hearts, are the genuine article" (are you getting the picture now?)

Now if all of THAT wasn't enough to send you into hysterics, here's the lowdown on the music: many of the songs on the album are every bit as tongue-in-cheek and performed the same way. For example, the lead track "I Can't Get No Nookie" comes complete with a nearly dead-on vocal impersonation of Mick Jagger, and the classic "Duke Of Earl" is given another hilariously accurate impersonation, this time of Bob Dylan. Also included is a 10 minute-plus version of Donovan's "Season Of The Witch". This could qualify as the only "serious" track on the album, and it's actually performed quite well; one of the best versions I've heard next to the one on the album "Super Session" by Mike Bloomfield, Stephen Stills & Al Kooper (yes, they were a REAL group!)

Music Album:

  1. Great Mitch Miller ~ Mitch Miller
  2. The Romantics ~ The Romantics
  3. The Future of War ~ Atari Teenage Riot
  4. Innocence ~ Renaissance
  5. Gowan ~ Gowan
  6. Everything You Need ~ Slightly Stoopid
  7. Auralgasms: Bliss of Life ~ Various Artists
  8. Aria ~ Asia
  9. Kokomemedada ~ Komeda
  10. Downloading the Repertoire ~ Jack Mudurian

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Descarga in New York ~ John Ben%C3%ADtez Trio

Jazz Loft Sessions ~ Various Artists

Rejuvenate ~ Ralph Moore

Monkey-Pockie-Boo ~ Sonny Sharrock

Best Of Glenn Miller Orchestra, Vol. 2 ~ Glenn Miller

The Scenic Route ~ Kamikaze Ground Crew

Clareou ~ Netinho

Untitled ~ Sambomaster

Die Grombacher '97 ~ Die Grombacher

Guitar Extra Dry ~ Grand Papa Diabate