The Cheap Suit Serenaders

Comics and 78 rpm information were the twin poles about that your Cheap Match Serenaders coalesced. Robert Crumb was (and it is) probably one of the most popular underground cartoonists ever, having nearly developed the genre. Robert Armstrong was also mixed up in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region underground comics picture, generating such comics as Mickey Rat as well as the Couch Potatoes. Discovering that Crumb also loved music from your ’20s and ’30s, Armstrong taken in aged friend Al Dodge as well as the troika started playing for fun. While on a mixed busking/78-hunting trip over the USA, the group produced the 3rd comics connection. In Milwaukee, cartoonist/publisher Denis Kitchen provided the group an opportunity to make an archive. They produced the shrewd advertising move of trimming a 78 rpm record beneath the name R. Crumb and his Continue Trucking Orchestra. Amazingly, this record will need to have strike its tag because these were offered the opportunity to make an LP for Blue Goose/Yazoo Information. For the time being, they gained their unique name by hurriedly buying fits in the Salvation Military to be able to meet the minimum amount dress code needed from the music group at a posh wedding ceremony. Though the music group started like a trio, they have at times contains as much as six or seven people. An early on incarnation from the music group included another underground cartoonist, Dan Wheetman (later on of Marley’s Ghost). The music group added Terry Zwigoff on cello. Tom Marion became a member of on acoustic guitar and mandolin. Tony Marcus required his put in place 1978. Acoustic guitar dazzler Bob Brozman arrived in on the 3rd record (re-released as Singin’ in the Bath tub). With the middle-’80s, the group was producing fewer public performances as Armstrong and Crumb got shifted inland and it had been harder to corral the people. Crumb today lives in France producing a complete muster nigh difficult. The group makes at least a annual appearance (generally without Crumb) on the Freight and Salvage Espresso Home in Berkeley, CA. They placed on a funny and participating live show, to readily start to see the camaraderie aswell as any frictions which have developed over 20-unusual years. At the minimum, one can discover instruments one seldom sees doing his thing like a Stroh violin as well as the musical noticed. Recent years have observed occasional performances in Europe, operating the renewed fascination with R. Crumb due to Zwigoff’s award-winning film Crumb.