Mooseboy Alfonzo and His Prairie Troubadours proudly presentDuck Mangler and the
Radioactive Nuns
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My primary musical output
of the 1980's was a collaborative effort with my
brother. His talent and my ideas let to a number of
recordings, a legend
which will last a lunchtime. The name, of course, was mine. As I've said elsewhere, I love band names that are <someone> and the <somthings>. |
He's got the talent (and equipment), I've got the
ideas
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If I Could Find a Moosehead
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If I Could Find a Moosehead
<--Click here to listen |
Sperm Bank ATM (NSFW)
Our biggest "hit", a classic example of my songwriting
technique of the time- think of a great song title, then
figure out what a song with that title sounds like. In
this case, it's sort of an audio play about a machine
that has the uncanny ability to make women makes noises
like one of The
Three Stooges. Can you imagine? That's heavy
stuff, man. My musical contribution here is writing the
"da-de-du-da" four note motif heard throughout the
"transaction processing" portion and the space between
the first and second acts of the song. |
Sperm Bank ATM <--Click
here to listen |
Bradley's RamadaThe first of our "it's all the same" numbers, the
title comes from our mutual friend and guitarist, Ron
Bradley (see The Pretzel
Sisters, The Tim Tew Four,
and The Gestapo) and
what a typical night would be in the lounge of a
Ramada Inn if he owned one. For years after, I would
introduce Ron to people and they would say "Oh! Ron
Bradley, Ron Bradley, Ron Bradley!) We trade vocals on
this one too, I do the first verse, Sid does the
second, and so on. I played bass on this one, more
duck call, and random bits. There's a backwards-masked
message in this one if you can find it. |
Bradley's Ramada <--Click
here to listen Download
a
.zip archive of the .mp3 |
The Elk's Lodge Dungeon Reunion
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The Elk's Lodge Dungeon Reunion
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Perfect CreatureIn 1984-5, Moosemania was at a pitch. Moose
De-evolution had bloomed into the life-long obsession
it is now (he says, writing this within 4 feet of 23
different moose "things"). With that in mind, I penned
this little ditty which tells the story of Moose
De-evolution to the tune of a reggae
beat. Vocals and the organ part on this one are mine. |
Perfect Creature <--Click
here to listen |
Ringo
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Perfect Creature <--Click
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Oh Baby, You're Gonna Get Yours (Incredibly NSFW)
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Perfect Creature <--Click
here to listen |
A Rare Bird of Pleasure (NSFW)This one has an interesting history. In my junior
year of high school, I was in Driver's Ed (I skipped
Second Grade). We were out in the lot waiting around
for our turns driving when this guy whips out a
Penthouse magazine. I read this Forum
article with the same title as this song, about this
guy who's making a chicken dinner for his friends when
he gets...stimulated. It goes downhill from there, but
it sure seemed like a different idea for a song, so I
wrote this. Vocals, chicken, and doubling on the synth
horns were my musical contributions. |
Perfect Creature <--Click
here to listen |
Spunk My J*sm (NSFW - like you couldn't tell from the title)My brother had the genesis for this one, oddly
enough. He'd come up with the first few verses and
first chorus and wanted to flesh it out (excuse the
term). I naturally agreed, and came up with the rest
of the verses/choruses. Probably the only song in
history to rhyme Mylanta
and Atlanta. We
decided to go really lounge-y on this one, but typical
of me, I wrote my "scat" singing out in advance (at
least a bunch of different phrases which I combined
randomly) and Sid played this wooden flute he had
laying around. This one's for all you lovers out
there, but sadly has a tape dropout during the second
chorus. |
Spunk My J*sm <--Click
here to listen |
Dirty ForksThe idea for this was a guy who sees a girl, desires
her, but knows she has no idea he exists. He's just
the dishwasher at the restaurant she's at that night.
I'm half the synth horn part and main vocals, with Sid
coming in the choruses. |
Spunk My J*sm <--Click
here to listen |
Billy and the BoingersThis was really a collaboration between my brother
and the guitarist from his old rock band. Bloom
County was a very popular cartoon, and Bill
the Cat was at one time leader of the band Billy
and the Boingers. The strip had a contest around
1986-7 to write the band's theme song. I was brought
in as vocalist because, oddly enough, the other thing
I sing "well" besides lounge music is heavy
metal. So vocal stylings are my only real
contribution here, I didn't write any of it. |
Spunk My J*sm <--Click
here to listen |
Tom Petty and Bob Dylan Sing 'Stepping Stone'One random day, Sid and I were hanging out with duckmauler when someone (possibly me) commented about the tour Petty and Dylan were on at the time and how that was sure to be a festival of no-tongue bastiches. This ensued soonafter. |
Spunk My J*sm <--Click
here to listen |
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