Confessions of a Big Lanky Dope

Rhubarb's Revenge | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gear Fab Records
• ASIN: B00000ILV0
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #900,464 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Toothless Classic, September 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Confessions of a Big Lanky Dope (Audio CD)

I have rarely heard anything quite like "Lanky Dope", in this life, or the previous one. The instruction book for tape recorders in the 1970s should have included a copy of this record in the "do not do this!!.." department. But yet, the music, if I may call it that, is SO honest and SO in-yer-face/ happy-just-to-be-doing-it, that to these ears, it states what it means to be able to pick up an instrument, plug in and play. Pure and simple: it is joy, happiness and friendship on vinyl - now on compact disc. This album is the godfather of punk: sloppy & loud; the template for D.I.Y.: this band did it all themselves at home with 2 mics and 2 tracks; and a vision of the future: the core band is still doin' it today disguised as The Breetles.

The music is shockingly open and real and adventurously un-professional. That Rhubarb's Revenge" exists today is tribute to the vision of its creators. That it is now available worldwide on CD, well, that's the rest of the joke...

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars HISTOGRAM CURRYCOMB EN LA ANEMONE, August 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Confessions of a Big Lanky Dope (Audio CD)

Creepy hippie-haired head band, absolutely charming in its period-piece early 70s FAR OUT jamming, man. Some good covers, some even better originals. Murky tapedeck homemade stir-fry stew-fi. Strange and slightly off, you'll dig this album. Like a hole in the head. What a faded decade we made! I was there, in similar beatitude buzzings. Then play on.