![]() ![]() What the MC5 were to Detroit, what the 13th Floor Elevators were to Austin, what the Mothers of Invention were to Los Angeles, what the Fugs were to New York, what the Haight-Ashbury groups were to San Francisco, the Hampton Grease Band were to Atlanta. The Hampton Grease Band were the South’s first freaks, and still their most incredible. Mainly that their sole album, 1971’s Music To Eat, was allegedly the second worse-selling double-LP in Columbia Records’ history, after an instructional yoga set. ![]() The importance of the Hampton Grease Band is almost always reduced to factoids. (…the latest entry of ‘blanks and postage’ - author jesse jarnow’s monthly column for aquarium drunkard highlighting the fringe and beyond.)
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