In 1970, Robin Remailly and Dave Reisch joined the band, which relocated to Boston and then Oregon, adding Ted Deane, Roger North, and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter. In 1968, the band performed 'You've Got the Right String but the Wrong Yo Yo' on the TV series Laugh-In, with appearances by the park-bench oldtimers played by Ruth Buzzi and Arte Johnson. Their fourth album, The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders, recorded in 1968, included 'Bird Song' (essentially Ray Price's 'You Done Me Wrong' with altered lyrics), which was featured in Dennis Hopper's film Easy Rider. Weber wrote the cult classic 'Boobs a Lot' for the Fugs, which the Rounders later recorded on the album Good Taste Is Timeless.Īfter leaving the Fugs, the Rounders re-formed with Sam Shepard and Lee Crabtree to record their third album, Indian War Whoop, and appeared in Shepard's play Forensic. Their 1965 recordings with the Fugs are on the albums The Village Fugs, Virgin Fugs, and Fugs 4, Rounders Score. Shortly after the release of their second album, The Holy Modal Rounders 2, in 1965, they joined Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg in the Fugs for a short time. Their first album, The Holy Modal Rounders, released in 1964, contained their version of ' Hesitation Blues', the lyrics of which included the first use of the term psychedelic (here pronounced 'psycho-delic') in popular music. Stampfel and Weber were introduced to each other by Greenwich Village figure Antonia, who also wrote or co-wrote many of their songs. When we got to Holy Modal Rounders, everyone decided by accumulation that we were the Holy Modal Rounders. We kept putting out different names and wait until someone starts calling us that then. Then when we were stoned on pot and someone else, Steve Close maybe, said Holy Modal Rounders by mistake.

He was Teddy Boy Forever and I was Wild Blue Yonder. He was Rinky-Dink Steve the Tin Horn and I was Fast Lightning Cumquat. First it was the Total Quintessence Stomach Pumpers. Stampfel explained the origin of the name in the webzine Perfect Sound Forever: For a time the group also included the playwright and actor Sam Shepard. Their unique blend of folk music revival and psychedelia gave them a cult-like following from the late 1960s into the 1970s. The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who began performing together on the Lower East Side of New York City in the early 1960s. Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders

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