Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos (feat. Ed "Big Daddy" Roth!)

[Screamin' Danny Blix]

i never knew this but ol' Big Daddy Roth had himself a surf band! i found the three records they made and put em up for download on my blog Get Dorked!. i dig em a lot. hope ya like it.

ps. i'm new to these parts. nice little place ya'll got here.

[swt]

Contemporary with this was a record put out by Hawk Models to go along with the Weird-ohs and Silly Surfers plastic models, which I loved to put together as a kid in the '60s. The Weird-ohs --- Digger, Daddy, Endsville Eddie, Huey's Hut Rod, etc. --- were rip-offs of Big Daddy's characters to be sure, but they were pretty cool. The Silly Surfers were cool -- Hodad, Beach Bunny, etc. -- though they weren't as "Rothian." (They didn't have green and purple skin, fangs and bloodhot eyes, etc.)

Anywho, there was an LP with songs about the Weird-ohs on one side and the Silly Surfers on the other. Pearl Jam actually covered one of the Silly Surfer songs, "Gremmie Out of Control." I found an MP3 of "Huey's Hut Rod" on the old Napster years ago. Love to get the thing on CD.

[swt]

PS Thanks for the Gasser downloads. I'll check out the rest of your blog. And welcome to the Hideout.

[Screamin' Danny Blix]

wow i didn't know about those! i'll look for them and, if i find them, i'll put them up on my blog to download. thanks for the heads up and i hope you enjoy the blog!

[Andy Seven]

I had one on Capitol Records that had a track called "Even If It Ain't Chromed - Chrome It". It was kind of novelty record-like, if I remember. It was okay.