Electric Apricot:QuestFor Festeroo (2008)

Product Summary Label: Revolver Usa UPC: 00602517625037 Release Date: 3/18/2008 Buy.com Sku: 206902383 Item#: M429WY Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Hey Are You Going To Burning Man? - Electric Apricot (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists 2. Backroads Of My Mind - Electric Apricot (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists 3. Uncle Pete's Party - Electric Apricot (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists 4. Sugar Train Blues - Electric Apricot (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists 5. Fishing Blues - Henry Thomas ~ Various Artists 6. Playing In The Band - Bob Weir ~ Various Artists 7. Time To Confess - Gov't Mule ~ Various Artists 8. Shady Grove - David Grisman/Jerry Garcia ~ Various Artists 9. Dire Wolf - Stiff Dead Cat ~ Various Artists 10. Everybody Ona Move - Michael Franti/Spearhead ~ Various Artists 11. Calling All Sand Worms - Larry LaLonde ~ Various Artists 12. Yog Sagoff (Live) - Electric Apricot (previously unreleased, live) ~ Various Artists (P) 2008 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 2008 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Recording information: Rancho Relaxo, CA (05/25/2005); Sweetwater Saloon, Mill Valley, CA (05/25/2005). Photographers: Reuben Raffael; Jay Blakesberg. Arrangers: David Grisman; Jerry Garcia. ELECTRIC APRICOT - QUEST FOR FESTEROO, the CD companion to Les Claypool's 2007 jam band mockumentary, opens fittingly enough with the cheeky, seven-minute long "Hey Are You Going To Burning Man?" From his Primus days and beyond, Claypool has always injected a keen sense of musical satire into his compositions; the four tracks from his fictional Electric Apricot gently (yet fiercely) tweak the world of the Grateful Dead and their descendents, getting inside their target's heads. The soundtrack is fleshed out by tracks by a wide variety of some of the greats of the circuit from Spearhead and Gov't Mule to Bob Weir himself. Director and star Les Claypool's mockumentary Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo is supposed to do to the jam band scene what This Is Spinal Tap did to heavy metal and A Mighty Wind did to folk, that is, satirize them. And on the soundtrack album, that's what the fictional band Electric Apricot does for the first four tracks, which push the sometimes meandering arrangements and spacy lyrics of jam band songs to their logical extreme. Then, however, 26 minutes into this 79-minute disc, things turn surprisingly serious with folk-blues standards and rock songs by the sorts of musicians nominally being made spoofed. When Grateful Dead member Bob Weir's 1972 solo recording of the Dead classic "Playing in the Band" begins, it gives the lie to the earlier jokey tunes. It's as if, mixed in with the silly songs on This Is Spinal Tap, "Stairway to Heaven" and "Smoke on the Water" were inserted, or as if "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" were found in the middle of the soundtrack to A Mighty Wind. After a few songs, one nearly forgets this is supposed to be the accompaniment to a parody movie. Electric Apricot finally makes a return appearance at the end with "Yog Sagoff," but for much of its nearly 20-minute length the track sounds more like a heavy metal or progressive rock take-off than a send-up of psychedelic rock. The soundtrack to Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo is amusing in spots, especially up front, but it also features some of the better examples of the styles it's making fun of. ~ William Ruhlmann   Technical Info Release Date : 03/18/2008 Original Release Date : 2008 Catalog ID : 001081002 Label : Hip-O Records Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00602517625037    Product Image