R. Crumb on the Antique Phonograph show this week

[mike_b]

Dear Mike,

Please try to get him to stick around.

[NJL]

I feel like this was probably already recorded.

[B_Buster]

Yeah, I  doubt he'll be journeying forth to Jersey City. Also, he's the least interesting Crumb in "Crumb."

[Denim Gremlin]

who do you like best mike?  the rapist yogi or the creep obsessed with the kid from treasure island?

[crumbum]

Perhaps the best title ever for a collection of letters:



And a pretty decent read to boot.

[cavorting with nudists]

who do you like best mike?  the rapist yogi or the creep obsessed with the kid from treasure island?

I think, in fairness to Maxon, he was more a "sexual assaultist" yogi than a "rapist" yogi, no?

Mike, Robert may have been the (relatively) best-adjusted of the Crumb brothers and thus, from a certain perspective, the "least interesting," but are you claiming he's therefore not even interesting at all?  Man, you are a tough critic.

I myself thought the most emotionally compelling thing about Crumb the movie was the mystery whereby Robert managed to escape the family madness through his devotion to art and hard work--but even at that, at a stiff price in fucked-upness.

[not that clay]

I really like his Cheap Suit Serenaders albums! More than his comics even. I love this song:

Robert Crumb & the Cheap Suit Serenaders - Home

[B_Buster]

What can I say, cavorting with nudists? I never got the comics for adults thing. Obviously, this is a personal bias not shared by everyone. I have never read a Robert Crumb comic nor have I ever had the desire to (the only ones I even had an inkling to read was his treatment of The Metamorphosis and Genesis, mainly because of the source material). Of course, this did not prevent me from thoroughly enjoying the movie, Crumb (I liked the brother who never left the couch and later committed suicide--he was the funniest of the bunch).

[Kormod]

A creepy picture that might interest Mike:

[Christina]

It was an entertaining hour, for sure, but there was definitely some of that record-nerd-off-the-deep-end stuff that had me rolling my eyes, like being mad about people who come over to hang out and listen to records and then have the nerve to TALK during one of them! Or how the Rolling Stones don't "do it" for him as he prefers Robert Johnson. It's like talking to one of those film nerds who only like silent movies & think anything after 1929 is shit.

[Omar]

It was an entertaining hour, for sure, but there was definitely some of that record-nerd-off-the-deep-end stuff that had me rolling my eyes, like being mad about people who come over to hang out and listen to records and then have the nerve to TALK during one of them! Or how the Rolling Stones don't "do it" for him as he prefers Robert Johnson. It's like talking to one of those film nerds who only like silent movies & think anything after 1929 is shit.

Is it true that Bob said he liked the new Tyvek album?

[cas-vik]

It was an entertaining hour, for sure, but there was definitely some of that record-nerd-off-the-deep-end stuff that had me rolling my eyes, like being mad about people who come over to hang out and listen to records and then have the nerve to TALK during one of them! Or how the Rolling Stones don't "do it" for him as he prefers Robert Johnson. It's like talking to one of those film nerds who only like silent movies & think anything after 1929 is shit.

Is it true that Bob said he liked the new Tyvek album?

Actually RC said they've released total shit since the Summer Burns double 7".  That's pretty much a direct quote.

[JonFromMaplewood]

I myself thought the most emotionally compelling thing about Crumb the movie was the mystery whereby Robert managed to escape the family madness through his devotion to art and hard work--but even at that, at a stiff price in fucked-upness.

I would challenge that.  I don't think he escaped the family madness. His form of madness just turned out to be lucrative.  Is that the distinction you are drawing between madness and "fucked-upness"? 

His brother who committed suicide worked just as hard as Robert did, if not harder, but there was not a penny to be gained from it.  He also shared Robert's dedication to art.

[fonpr]

His brother who committed suicide worked just as hard as Robert did, if not harder, but there was not a penny to be gained from it. 

The brother did escape.

[buffcoat]

His brother who committed suicide worked just as hard as Robert did, if not harder, but there was not a penny to be gained from it. 

The brother did escape.

Damn, Fredericks.