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unusual facts about Peter Stampfel


The Holy Modal Rounders

The Holy Modal Rounders were an American folk music duo from the Lower East Side of New York City which started in the early 1960s, consisting of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber.



see also

Mountainhood

Chapter XIII: Arthurdesh - MV + EE, Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders) and the Ether Frolic Mob, Jack Rose, Jana Hunter & TJO, quad (Helen Rush, PG Six, Samara Lubelski, Bob Bannister), Sharon Van Etten, Mountainhood, Headdress, White Hills

The Dust Busters

The three met as a group while playing in a larger band called the Ether Frolic Mob alongside folk musicians Peter Stampfel of The Holy Modal Rounders and John Cohen of The New Lost City Ramblers, which began at Peter’s Thanksgiving parties.

The Holy Modal Rounders

While working for his wife, Betsy Wollheim, as submissions editor of DAW Books Stampfel formed the Bottle Caps, releasing Peter Stampfel and the Bottlecaps (1986) and The People's Republic of Rock n' Roll (1989), as well as an album of standards, You Must Remember This (1994).