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Big Bambu

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Between release of this album and now, Cheech Marin became a bona fide actor and co-starred with Don Johnson on "Nash Bridges". I can just hear Pedro de Pacas' sidekick Man; "Pedro becomes a pig? Bummer, man!" This album was my follow-up purchase to their first album after hearing the duo's Holiday hit "Santa Claus and His Old Lady" the previous year. I bought their earlier album looking for that track, and to this date, no C&C album has featured it. You have to get Dr. Demento's "Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time", but that's another story. This album grabs you from the first track "Sister Mary Elephant", and I was reminded of it this past Sunday in church, where four baptisms were held. The predictable noise level caused by siblings present forced the Father to practically bellow his sermon, despite the p.a. system, and I commented to my choir director that the padre could have used the help of The Screaming Nun; "Good morning, class...Class....SHUUUUTUUUUUUP!!!" You will also get a foretaste of Marin's versatility in the next album "Los Cochinos", when Marin uses a great Quebecois accent to interview Chong in the part of a crab louse "Buster da body crab" in one sketch on that release. A lot of the humor in C&C's work is sophomoric to say the least, aimed at the Animal House demographic whose sons watch Comedy Central's Carlos Mencia today, but the content of these men's humor obscures the fact that they are brilliant.

I'm constantly amazed at the cleverness, originality, and vocal skills of these guys. It's true they're often gross, profane, and do no-brainer humor, but they're also funny as hell, and their capturing of human stereotypes is outstanding. Canadians, Mexicans, Germans, whites, blacks, DJs, coaches, Christians, panhandlers, homosexuals, and even dogs--no one escapes their imitations! Their use of stereo and sound effects to evoke a visual scene is also great. It's also fun nostalgia from the early '70s, those wild days of hippies and drugs. I just wish their albums contained more tracks, like some of their live material and songs that came out in those days. The routines on this album used to be favorite dialogs for high school students to mimic.

Funny how you can hear something as a kid and it was funny and then you play it as an adult and it is still as funny now as it was then. I remember Sister Mary Elephant the best as my kids principal was her revisited. Couldnt stop laughing through her whole presentation. Gotta get it it is cheech and chong at their best but that is just my opinion. Trust me you will Laugh and Laugh. as they say Laughter is the best medicine.

Cheech and Chong are perhaps THE most underrated comedy duo of all time. Although in their movies, the drug routine was bound to get old to new audiences, their audio tapes are far and away their best material. It's clever, entertaining and one doesn't have to do drugs to appreciate it.

I bought this record upon its original release (circa 71-72) at the tender age of 12, it was my parents reward for having cursed me with my first pair of glasses.

Mom hated it....dad *loved* it...and he was a 20 yr Army Vet (translated-POT IS DEADLY mentality).

I challenge even William Bennett not to laugh at this.

Had the original on vinyl, it came with an awsome piece of paper and anyone who was around then knows what I mean. Still funny through all the years will give you a lifetime of laughs. Adult humor at it's finest. But no Paper?

Listening to this Big Bamboo again after three+ decades brought back all the memories of the Cheech and Chong era and the good times I had. I had lent it to someone and never heard it again all of these years and it's still funny, especially without the scratches. If you were a fan get this CD and enjoy!

You don't have to be a stoner to laugh at this one. You just need to sit back and enjoy the skits that the boys came up with. The were a sensation that stands the test of time. And there's not a waste of space at all on this one. I am in the process of getting all of these guys stuff again. I had them all on album back when and it's great to be able to laugh at this vintage 70's humour again.

If I had not memorized this CD when it was an album I might not be sure I was here for the seventies and eighties! The humor is timeless and the timing is brilliant! Worth listening to even sober!

What can be said about Cheech and Chong.They were one of the best comedy teams of the 70's, and this album was one of their best! Between SISTER MARY ELEPHANT and the TELEVISION MEDLY,I still laugh at those old 30 year old jokes. personally I think "LET'S MAKE A DOPE DEAL" rates up there with Abbott and Costello's "Whose on First."