Something Weird Spook Show Spectacular A Go-Go
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£26.00
SPECTRAL STOMPERS AND GRAVEYARD GROOVES!
• The unholy follow up to the wildly successful Something Weird Greatest Hits!
• The wildest spook show trailers from the SW vault on LP or CD both with a bonus DVD!
• Cut by Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive) and pressed on colored vinyl at Third Man!
Something Weird has exhumed a crypt full of classic Spook Show
promos and radio spots monstrously mashed together with fiendish rare
surf and garage rock instrumentals. Includes a delightfully deranged DVD
featuring Monsters Crash the Pajama Party and more bone-chilling
freakouts of fright! LP includes a zine style liner note insert!
From
the 1930s until the 1970s a popular form of entertainment, quaintly
called, The Ghost (or Spook) Show, enthralled America. Traveling
magicians and illusionists went on the road and added horror elements to
their regular (often predictable) stage acts. This appealed to
youngsters eager for cheap thrills and chills. The advertising campaigns
promised to “scare the yell” out of those “brave” enough to attend, and
performances took place mostly at midnight in movie theatres that were
decorated with outrageous lobby displays publicizing the shocking and
scary things about to be seen - ghosts, ghouls, monsters, gorillas, mad
doctors, and some things “so terrifying” that they couldn’t even be
mentioned. During the course of the night, classic horror movies were
shown, and there were contests with corny gimmicks and silly prizes.
How
does Something Weird fit in? Well, during 2001 SWV compiled what was to
become one of their most popular and beloved DVDs, Monsters Crash the
Pajama Party Spook Show Spectacular. It featured over three hours of
rare Ghost Show shorts and trailers, radio spot audio, galleries of
memorabilia, and commentaries with legendary living Ghostmasters. The
folks at SWV were huge Spook Show fans and collected anything related to
the subject including original 35mm film trailers as well as radio
spots on promotional 45s and magnetic tape. So this was a dream project
for them, and something near and dear to their bloody hearts.
Since
its release, audio bits from the MCTPPSSS have popped up on radio
stations and music compilations. People love them. So it just seemed
logical that Something Weird do a Spook Show album. And like our old
pal, Jim “The Mad Doctor” Ridenour, we’ve always believed that horror
and rock ‘n roll go hand in hand, so what better way than to combine
some rarely heard, fiendish surf and garage rock instrumentals with the
trailer & radio spot audio and incidental music from the DVD? Now
all groovy ghouls and goblins can time travel and have a Spook Show A
Go-Go Party! (Just add your own ghosts and gorilla suits...)
| Format | |
| Format type | LP & DVD |
| Music | |
| Artist | Various |
| Year | 2020 |
| Label | Modern Harmonic |
| Music_video_1 | iPJbiIWiVww |
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