Engelmann left the band in 1999 and was replaced by Kahlil Smylie for the album Limbo Boots.
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The following year, the original lineup of the band (Engelmann/Cinninger/Krojniewski) reunited in the North Carolina mountains to record the album Rockstars and Lawnmowers.
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The band recorded Rockstars and Lawnmowers with former Mother Vinegar bassist Jeff Hinkle.
Muhammad Ali | Hyder Ali | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Ali | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Meher Baba | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Ali Akbar Khan | Tariq Ali | Sai Baba of Shirdi | Saif Ali Khan | Asif Ali Zardari | Ali Shariati | Ali Abdullah Saleh | Ali Mohammed Ghedi | Ali Khamenei | Ali Pasha | Ali G Indahouse | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Husayn ibn Ali | Hasan ibn Ali | Ali Imam | Michael Nazir-Ali | Laila Ali | Jebel Ali | Baba O'Riley | Ali Baba | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | Wajid Ali Shah | Shakir Ali |
In pantomime versions, changes in the setting and story are often made to fit it better into "China" (albeit a China situated in the East End of London rather than Medieval Baghdad), and elements of other Arabian Nights tales (in particular Ali Baba) are often introduced into the plot.
Ali Baba aur 40 chor (Hindi - अलीबाबा और चलीस चोर, Russian – Приключения Али-Бабы и сорока разбойников) is a 1980 India-USSR film based on the story of Ali Baba, starring Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman.
There he created several characters: Pippo, Pertica e Palla, Oreste il guastafeste, Chicchiricchì, Cip l'arcipoliziotto and his nemesis Zagar, Giacinto corsaro dipinto, Jack Mandolino, La signora Carlomagno, adaptations of classic like Ali Baba and Don Quixote, and parodies of famous comics like L'onorevole Tarzan and Il mago Mandrago.
After being secluded for his entire life, a boy called Aladdin travels the world until he meets Alibaba Saluja, a young man aiming to one day explore the nearby dungeon Amon and claim its treasures.
Timchenko often employs invention in this process of transformation: Infantas make friends with “dolls”, princes with leopards, Ali Baba with a crane, a toy horse with a childish and naïve expression gallops from one picture to another.
The poems either parody well known fairy tales (Dick Whittington and His Cat, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Emperor's New Clothes, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin) nursery rhymes (As I was going to St Ives, Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary, Mary Quite Contrary) or are little stories thought up by Dahl himself.
The first single from the album is "Bright Lights, Big City," written by Mother Vinegar frontman Karl Engelmann, who is also a member of Ali Baba's Tahini with Umphrey's guitarist Jake Cinninger.