Just got done listening to an interview with R. Crumb on NPR. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4627180 Go and listen if you are intersested in the ole Underground comic scene!
Me, Thanks for the link-good to know "Mr Sixties" is keepin on truckin. I'm thinking I should probably be ordering some of R's music CDs-No I WILL be doing this. R and I share some rather offbeat musical tastes. Thanks for getting me off my keister on this one. tundrahopper4
Mary and Ole, I really do believe people will be looking at R's stuff when we are all gone-he really captured "a spirit of the times" here and there. I rediscovered Crumb back in the early nineties and his recent stuff is also excellent. Tundrahopper4
I found a book called The Complete Robert Crumb at the bookstore a couple of days ago. I didn't buy it, but I really liked what I saw. Maybe I should go back and buy it???
Acid Queen, Got my copy yesterday and it's good stuff. Along with the comix-some old some new-there is a Crumb autobiography. It seems many of R's charactors were inspired by some trips on a certain well known mind scrambler. What a surprise huh? It's interesting that Crumb says that all that was certainly good for him but that he could not recommend it for anybody else. Then there are some photos of R over in Europe with his new beard and he looks like he has acculturated over there quite well. Then there is a music CD and if I like Crumb's music a tenth as much as I have liked his artwork I will be buying a lot more. Um tut sut, Tundrahopper4 Newo, Yeah I still have my collection going back to when I was 17. I get it out every once and a while for some hearty laughs. Tundrahopper4
I like R. Crumbs work....I love the documentary "Crumb" too, as well as the movie "American Splendor" which has "him" in it for a while. He's been in France for a long time now.
According to that new book, after seeing "American Splendor", his wife Aline said that if he had been anything like that she would never have married him.
Mary, I was especially delighted to see some new comix jams between R and his wife Aline in the new handbook-she is a brainy "Gracie" to R's "George Burns". Their collaborations go back to '72 a and are in my opinion the best things ever penned. R was once musing that he should have done time in the Marine Corps or something as his experience with this world was quite limited and that he had become perhaps overly introspective. Robert! You did not miss much at all! At any rate, a friend of mine is mailing me some dirty comics from the fifties and I am thinking that perhaps I should mail them off to R.Crumb in Southern France. He says he got a lot of his inspirations from the lowgrade image streams of the fifties and maybe he has not seen some of these. Perhaps he has.... I don't think my stodgy old antique broker would appreciate these particular pieces of Americana whatsoever haha, Tundrahopper4
Hi all, I guess I am wowed by the R. Crumb music sampler that came with the "R.Crumb Handbook" and am planning on buying some more. It's old timey stuff for sure, heavily accoustic, and with... well a rather strange spin on it as any of you who know Crumb might guess (the "Wisconsin Wiggle" with what sounds like a bent saw blade twanging in the background?!). Crumb is getting into French music (I am rather dismayed that Europe stole this great artist from us) and is working with this French musical group "Les Primatifs du Futur" which is also an excellent accoustic group that does cafe sounding accordian based tunes. Then there are some numbers by "The Crumb Family" which I am guessing might include Jesse Crumb and... who else? Aline plays as well as Robert... and perhaps now Sofie is doing music? It's all really, really good stuff. http://www.music-finder.net/band_8574_1.php Just full o' surprises this Crumb charactor! TH4
PS. Some more Crumb links; http://rcrumb.net/familygallery.html http://www.crumbproducts.com/ http://www.sonyclassics.com/crumb/misc/notes.html http://mitglied.lycos.de/crumbcomics/family_backcover.htm
Hi all, Well I just ordered the "Hot Women Singers" and a "R Crumb and his Cheapsuit Serenaders" CDs and the former was $$$$. I guess it is a collection of old 78s and I guess I trust R's tastes enough to purchase it without any idea of what or who. Should be good. That sampler had a Serenaders tune about "My Girl's Pussey" which I assume when it was wrote meant Kitty Cat. The Cheapsuiters hit like quite something else. That weird Crumb sense of humor fairly oozes from these old tunes. TH4
What sucks about Crumb's life (well one I care to reference here) is that his "keep on truckin" image was copied and mass-produced. The IRS came knocking on his door wanting money for the profit of off the posters, shirts, mud flaps, etc. HE had nothing to do with it and had to fight the govt. over it. That should be a warning to new and current artists. I feel bad for Bill Watterson - the creator of calvin & hobbs. So many people have ripped off his character (Calvin) and plastered him all over their car windows with him pissing on something. It's utterly rediculous and I would be pissed if I was him.
Unk, So was R targetted by the IRS because of his association with the counterculture? Almost certainly. It sounds like he's doing well since the move to France in the early '90s but then again... there is no political faction there that hates all peoples who were in any way associated with what happened on the streets of San Francisco back in '67. The Crumbs are A BIG HIT in Europe by the way. I ordered that "Hot Women" CD on Amazon when I finally could find a used one that was available and it came from Germany. I haven't listened to it yet as I am saving it for a special occaission. TH4
