The Raudelunas Marching Vegetable Band

is the vienna socialist group that makes instruments, and then soup out vegetables ?

You are correct, sir. This was one of the too-cute-for anywhere-but-collegetown hijinks, circa bored-shitless late-mid-70s Tuscaloosa. I was there, and so for instance was Davey Williams, later of Curlew but at that point with his then-wife laDonna Smith not only running a DIY label "before" punk, but devoting it to what could only be called noize, or improv (kind of in there between Sonny Sharrock's "Black Woman and something much more cussedly European(in influence, if not earticluation), and they in fact did what most at most only talked about: "Oh wow what if we got Evan Harper (and other outcats) down here to jam, maaan?" Also the person who recorded as Rev. Fred Lane for Shimmy-Disc was of that scene.

Hey, Igor! The One who Really IS a Nut knows...who Don Allred is/was. As to the Marching Vegetable Band, well, THEY were chased down the street after they had been marching in the Official University of Alabama Homecoming Parade. There they were; just minding their own business...

it was the fred lane connection that brought them to my attention

still no reissue on cd, one was supposedly in the pipeline a while back?

Correction: I should have said that Rev.Fred recorded and also DIH, per that pre-Punk(in upper case,offically-acknowledged sense)DIY environs of which we are speaking across the years and websearches (like the one that just lead me back here, while running check on references to meeee). At least, Fred's first (solo LP, as far as I know), FROM THE ONE THAT CUT YOU. Don't know when RADIO CAR JEROME was recorded and for whom, but I think they were both later on one Shimmy-Disc disc. Fred AKA Timothy Reed, who did and I hope still does wonderful cartoony mobiles,genius descendants of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's tiny funny cars y other RatFinkana.(Speaking of the other musos in that scene, the above-mentioned LaDonna was also mentioned twice in a recent villagevoice.com, and not be me--she's an underground legend! Though not my own cup of underground.)

thanks for posting in Don, feel free to kick down more anecdotes about raudelunas -- I love that record you guys made. Two years ago I had dinner with Anne LeBaron and she pulled out her cardboard-box copy...

http://www.craignutt.com/raudelunas/rpr/home.html

gareth: it is out on CD. I think www.rermegacorp.com still has it.

Wow, thanks for providing that link, but I never was pasrt of their scene, although I did buy some of their Dr. Strange comic books at a yard sale. And Fred/Tim and I both played harmonica, but I shouldn't have ranked on [his friends/colleagues] Davey Williams and LaDonna's music before asking if I coud jam with him. (Heard live, In The Moment,D and LaD. seemed like a really bad imitation of Sonny and Linda Sharrock at that point, drowning out some of the international undegrounders they'd gotten down to Tuscaloosa. But there were many *recorded* highlights I may have missed, especially their later work. I did like Davey in context of Curlew.)Tim was more like a Beefheart/Crocus, with avant-garage charisma(he was really into Jarry's ur-punk Ubu Trilogy). And there were other Vegetables who marched differently than any of these three,who were nevertheless, most often commanding my attention, for better and worse.