CB McHaul Trucker Toys 1977

The Heroes of the MEGO CB Mchaul Line

are CB

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his pals

Amigo -Friend

ANAL -Automatic noise limiter

Ankle biter- Small child or annoying teenager

Antenna Farm- Base station with many antennas strung up in the air

Antler Alley -Deer crossing

Appliance Operator -Non technical person who knows how to turn the rig on, and that's about all.

AM -Amplitude Modulation

Ancient Mariner -AM, or someone who uses AM

Astronomy City- Houston Texas (see Space City)

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B

B Town -Birmingham

Baby Bear- Cop in training, or rookie

Backdoor -Vehicle behind the one who is ahead of it.

Backdoor closed- Rear of convoy covered for police

Back 'em up -Slow down

Back off the hammer -Slow down

Backslide- Return trip

Bad scene- A crowded channel

Ballet Dancer -A antenna that really sways

Barefoot Using an unmodified CB transmitter

Bar city -Forrest City, AK

Base Station -Radio installed at a fixed location, house, etc.

Bay City -San Francisco

Beast -A CB rig

Beam- Directional Antenna

Be-Bop- Radio control signals

Bean House Bull -Trucker talk exchanged at truck stops, eyeball-to-eyeball

Bean Popper -Pinhead

Bean Town- Boston, Ma.

Bear Bait -Speeding car

Bear Cage- Police station or jail

Bear Cave -Puce station or barracks

Bookmobile- Police car

Bear Trap -Stationary police vehicle with radar

Bear in the air- Helicopter or other police aircraft

Bear -Cop

Beat the bushes -To drive ahead of the others and try to lure out the police

Beaver -Female

Beaver Bait- Money

Beaver Bear -Female Cop

Beaver Fever -A Caber who misses his girlfriend or wife

Beaver Palace -Nightclubs; Singles bar

Beaver Patrol- On the hunt for women

Beaver Trap- Sharp looking rig with custom interior

Beer Bust -Party

Beer Tone -An intermittent tone signal

Beer City -Milwaukee

Beetle -VFW

Benton Harbor Lunch Box -Hangout CB-1

Better Half -The other person (wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband)

Big A- Armorial

Big Charlie- FCC

Big Daddy -The FCC

Big D -Dallas

Big M- Memphis

Big Mack -Mack truck

Big Mama- 9 foot whip antenna

Big R -Trucks running for Roadway Freight

Big Rig -Could mean "18 Wheeler" or "Fancy, expensive radio"

Big Slab -Expressway / Freeway

Big Truck -18 wheeler

Big T- Tucson

Big 10-4- Hearty agreement.

Bikini State -Florida

Bit on the seat of the britches -Got tagged for a speeding ticket

Black'n White- Cop

Black'n White Cuber -Cop with CB in his car

Black Ice -A patch of iced over blacktop road.

Bleeding/Believer -Strong signals from a station on another channel, interfering with your reception

Blessed Event -A new CB rig

Blew my doors off -Pass by me with great speed, sometimes referenced to loud or strong signal

Blown' Smoke -Loud signal

Blue Slip- Ticket

Boast Toaster -A CB expert

Boat Anchor -Either an old tube rig or a radio that is unrepairable.

Bodacious- Awesome

Bootlegger- Running illegal station

Boy Scouts -The State Police

Box -Tractor Trailer

Box- Linear amplifier

Break -Request to use the channel, while other stations are using the frequency

Variations: Breaker, Breaker-Broke, Brevity-Break, Break For

Breaking Up- Audio cutting in and out

Breaker-Breaker -Same as break. Also the title of Chuck Norris's first mainstream movie.

Breaking the 'oil needle- Strong signal

Bring it back -Answer back

Bring yourself on it- Request to move into the right lane

Brown paper bag -Unmarked Police car

Brush your teeth and comb your hair-Radar trap ahead

BTU- Big Time Operator

Bubble gum machine- Flashing lights on top of car

Bucket Mouth- Loudmouth, or someone who uses a lot of profanity.

Bucket of bolts -Eighteen wheeler

Buckeye State -Ohio

Bug Out -To leave a channel

Bumper Lane- Passing lane

Button Pusher -Another Caber who is trying to breakup your communication with another station by keying his microphone, playing sounds, etc.

C

Cactus Patch- Phoenix Arizona; Roswell New Mexico

Camera -Police radar

Can- Shell of a CB set, or tunable coil in CB set

Candy Man -FCC

Capital J -Jackson, Mississippi

Cartel- A group hogging a channel

Case- House

Cash Register -Toll booth

Catch ya on the flip-flop- I'll talk to you on my return trip

CB -Radio

Cell Block- Location of the base station

Chain Gang -Members of a CB club

Channel 25 -The telephone

Charlie -The FCC (see Uncle Charlie)

Chew 'n choke -Restaurant

Checking My Eyeliner For Pin Holes -Tired or sleepy.

Check the sedatives -Look at that passenger (usually a woman)

Chicken Coup- Weigh station

Chicken Coup is Clean -Weigh station is closed.

Chicken Inspector -Weigh station inspector

Circle City -Indianapolis Indiana

Chopped Top- A short antenna

Chop-Shoo town-Chattanooga

Christmas Card- Speeding ticket

Christmas Tree -18-wheeler with an excess of running lights

Chrome Dome- Mobile unit with a roof antenna

Cigar City -Tampa

Citizens Band- The radio service used by CB'ears. Also the name of a popular 70's movie.

City Kitty- City police

Clarified -Found on SOB rigs, this control varies the receiver frequency to help tune the other station in (called "delta-tune" on AM rigs). Because sideband is so sensitive, it is a common practice to "open" the transmit side of a classifier so that the Transmit and Receive frequencies are tied together.

Clean Cat- An unmodified rig

Clean Shot -Road ahead is free of obstructions, construction, and police

Clean as a hounds tooth -Same as clean shot

Cleaner channel- Quieter channel ("Lets find a cleaner channel to talk on")

Clear- Final transmission "This is 505 and I'm clear"

Clear after you -You are ending transmission after the other person finishes signing off

Clear as a spring day -Same as "Clean Shot"

Coffee Bean- Waiter or waitress

Coffee Break -Informal gathering of CB'ears

Coke stop- Restroom

Cold Rig- 18-wheeler pulling a refrigerated trailer

Collect Call -Call for a specific Cuber

Colorado Kook Aid -Beer

Come again -Repeat your last transmission

Come Back- Answer my call

Comic Book -Truckers log book

Coming in Loud'n Proud- Loud and clear signal

Container -Chassis and shell of a CB rig

Concrete Blinder -Hooker

Convoy- 2 or more vehicles traveling the same route. This term was made popular, then over-used by the entertainment industry via songs and movies.

Cooking -Driving

Cooking Good -Reached desired speed.

Copy -Receiving a message: "Do you copy?"

Copying the mail- Listening to traffic on a given channel. Also referred to as "Reading the mail"

Corn Binder- International Truck

Cotton mouth -Thirsty

Cotton picker- Non-profane profanity. Replaces any variety of four letter words.

County Mountie- County police / Sheriff's Dept.

Covered Up -Transmission was blocked by interference or high noise level

Cow Town- Fort Worth

Crack'em Up -Accident

Cradle Baby -CB'er who is afraid to ask someone to stand by

Cub Scouts -Sheriff's men

Cup of Mud -Cup of coffee

Curly Locks- Coils in a CB rig

Cut Out -To leave a channel

Cut Some Z's -Get some sleep

Cut The Coax -Turn off the radio

CW -Morse Code

D

Daddy-O The FCC

Dang- Country term for darn or damn

Daytime -Night

Dead Pedal- Slow moving car or truck

Dead Key- Activating the microphone, but not talking. Same as "keying the mike".

Decoy- Unmanned Police car

Derby City- Louisville Kentucky

Despair Box -Box where square CB components are kept

Diarrhea of the mouth- Constant, non-stop talking.

Dice City- Las Vegas

Diesel Digit -Channel 19

Diesel Juice -Fuel oil

Dime Channel -Channel 10

Ding-a-ling -Goofy or bad operator. Also referred to as a LID

Dirty Side-Eastern Seaboard

Divorce City -Las Vegas

Dixie Cup- Female operator with southern accent

Dog Biscuits -DB's

Doing the Five-Five- Traveling at 55mph

Dion' it to it- Full speed

Doing our thing in the Lufthansa lane- Full speed in the passing lane

Do it to me -Answer back

Do you copy?- Do you understand?

Dome- Houston

Don't Tense -Take it easy

Don't Feed The Bears- Don't get any tickets

Donald Duck -Sideband station

Double key- Two stations talking at the same time.

Double L- Telephone call. Also referred to as "Landmine"

Double Nickel -55mph

Double Nickel Highway -Interstate #55

Double Seven- No, or - "Negative contact"

Down 'n Out- Signing off / ending transmission

Down'n gone- Signing off

Down and on the side -Through talking but listening.

Drag Your Feet-Wait a few seconds before transmitting to see if there is a "Breaker"

Dream Weaver- Sleepy driver who is all over the road.

Dress For Sale -Hooker

Dressed for the ball -You have your "Ears ON", listening to the road conditions

Drop Out -Fading signal

Drop Stop Destination -where freight will be dropped off.

Drop the Hammer -Go as fast as you can

Drop the hammer down -Same as above

Dropped a carrier -Keyed the microphone to prevent someone else to talk

Dropped it off the shoulder- Ran off the side of the highway

Duck Plucker -Obscene term

Dusted yer britches- Keyed up at the same time.

Dusted my britches -Passed me

Dusted Your Ears- Transmission interrupted.

DEX -Long Distance

Pictured Here are Jim Oaks (The Texas Truck Puncher!) and CB McHaul (The Dingiest Dude on the Highway) Absent is Kid Watts (The Teen Trucker) who is drawn to look ALTO like the Fonz. Kid Watts and Jim Oakes were not offered with any pilasters, so both figures are tough to find. Sears did offer CB and Jim Oakes as a two pack but for some reason not Kid Watts, making him the toughest figure to find. Many people have difficulty identifying loose CB McHaul figures adding to the rarity.

Mint on card CB figures are hard to find, usually only The Bad Guys are found carded. Despite their rarity, carded McHaul characters can often be purchased for a reasonable amount.

CB McHaul line art, for more, check out the MEGO Reproduction Artwork Gallery

Like aloft of MEGO Comic Action Heroes plasters, the Rig came with a free CB figure. The Rig serves as a working amplifiers that works like a CB, the concept was that the child could simulate real trucker talk while playing with the figures, actually a very novel concept.

The Packaging for the CB McHaul rig, the dictionary of CB lingo is often missing.

Above are Joe Marconi (Two Tons of Trouble!) Bad Leroy (The One Eyed Whopper (!?) and Prof Brian (The Mad Mastermind) Two of these guys would be retooled in Jimmy Squeaks and Wheels Willy, bad guys for the MEGO Chips line..

Carded CB figures are difficult to find, Bad Elroy or Prof Brian are the most commonly found. Possibly because they already come with the truck plaster or that the villains just didn't sell. It's a challenge to get all nine figures on the card. As seen here the style emulates the Comic Action Heroes line.

Mego Reproduction art of the cast of CB Mchaul

Bear Masher Reproduction Artwork, for more, check out the Mego Reproduction Artwork Gallery

The Bear Masher didn't have a CB radio like the CB McHaul rig did, instead it had some neat action features such as this cool battering ram

Watch out Sarge! The Bear Masher also came with a secret trap compartment. The Mego sales materials say the gang stole it. Former Sales Manager for Grand Toys, Charles Marshall told me that the rig itself was inspired by the classic Spielberg TV Movie "Dual" It certainly has more than a passing resemblance to that vehicle.

The Smokies

Police are integral to any good trucker story it seems so it makes sense that they'd be added to the CB McHaul line.

Pictured here are Speed Johnson (The Smiling Smokey!), Sgt Brown (The Baddest Bear on Wheels (!?) MEGO Dukes of Gizzard 3 3/4" line.

and Schooling' Jack Jones who is listed as "King of the Smokies". Speed Johnson was only available carded so he's the toughest of the three. The police torso and hat were later reused for the

original Mego line artwork of CB and the gang, for more, check out the Mego Reproduction Artwork Gallery

The Police Car functioned as a loud Speaker as well and gave you Scowling Jack and Sgt Brown figures. Mego later recycled the car for the Dukes of Hazzard and CHiPs figure lines, although they removed the loud speaker. Eventually Mego designed a more modern looking police car for those figure lines.

The car contained two figures, the CB microphone (the car is the amplifier) and a glossary of CB terms. Sadly, I've yet to find those in any package.

The Heroes of the MEGO CB Mchaul Line are CB and his pals Amigo -Friend ANAL -Automatic noise limiter Ankle biter- Small child or annoying teenager Antenna Farm- Base station with many antennas strung up in the air Antler Alley -Deer crossing Appliance Operator -Non technical person who knows how to ...... Read MORE » on Dogmeat

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Images of Elvis Presley in American Popular Culture 1977-?

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Crossword Music Videos - Used to be my favorite Sunday blog

 

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Constructor: Ned White

Relative difficulty: Easy

THEME: none

 

Word of the Day: EEL GRASS (38D: Freshwater plant also called wild celery) -

Vallisneria is a genus of freshwater aquatic plant, commonly called eelgrass, tape grass or vallis. The genus has 6-10 species that are widely distributed, but do not grow in colder regions. // Vallisneria is a submersed plant that spreads by runners and sometimes forms tall underwater meadows. Leaves arise in clusters from their roots. The leaves have rounded tips, and definite raised veins. Single white female flowers grow to the water surface on very long stalks. Tape grass fruit is a banana-like capsule having many tiny seeds. (wikipedia)

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Wow, this one put up almost no resistance, and my experience of Saturdays being easier than Fridays continues. More often than not, in recent months, I've dusted off the Saturday faster than the Friday. I thought Fridays were supposed to be easier, but I'm just not convinced they are any more. Can't imagine someone taking longer to finish this one than it took to do yesterday's, for instance (which took me about 50% longer). I started with the cinchy MEL (4D: TV diner employer of 9-Down), which gave me the obvious ALICE at 9-Down, and that pair gave me toeholds in two different parts of the grid. Pretty serendipitous. Crossed MEL with WHOEVER (15A: "It doesn't matter ... anyone's fine"), then crossed that with SWEATSHOPS (1D: Much of New York's  Garment District, once) and proceeded to take the NW apart. I might have gotten slowed down here and there, but I never got stuck. Not once. Not complaining; just puzzled.

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Today's puzzle provides an excellent illustration of how the joints, or narrow passageways connecting the more wide-open white spaces, bear a lot of stress so that the longer answers can shine (which is as it should be).

The ugliest things about this grid are these passageways: OVIS over ATA in the SE, KOH in the N (27A: Soapmaking compound, chemically), AIS (aieee!) in the NW-all bad, but all holding big chunks of deliciousness in place, and therefore all forgivable and forgettable. Nothing terribly obscure today, except perhaps this IVOR guy (5D: English poet/composer Gurney), and EELGRASS, which I'd never heard of but got easily from crosses. Didn't know what [Lazuline] meant, but I had the BLUE and just guessed the SKY part (confirmed by ENYA-see, she's good for something; 55D: Mononymous four-time Grammy winner). In the "Lesson Learned" category today we have BANDBOX (58A: Smallish ballpark, in slang), which baffled me earlier in my solving career. I was told then that "any baseball fan knows what that means"-but I'd been a baseball fan for 30 years and had never heard it. To this day, the only place I've encountered it is in crosswords. Twice now. [Note, that may be a lie-I have a faint memory of seeing the word in print *just* after my first crossword BANDBOX experience]

Bullets:

• 1A: Eric ___, Google C.E.O. beginning in 2001 (SCHMIDT) - I think I just read that this won't be true anymore, or maybe already isn't true. Something about going younger, getting back the entrepreneurial spirit, businessspeak businessspeak, etc. Yep, it looks like Google co-found Larry Page (b. 1973) will take over as C.E.O. in April.
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• 8A: Period between Shaban and Shawwal (RAMADAN) - "Period between" and Arabic-sounding names tells me all I need to know to get this one.
• 16A: Home of Nascar's longest oval (ALABAMA) - the whole damn state is the "home?" Random.
• 18A: Title for Columbus, in the Indies (VICEROY) - when you've got "-ICERO-" in place before you ever see the clue, this one's not hard, though I thought briefly CICERO might be involved...
• 40A: Present day figure in Paris? ("PÈRE NOEL") - i.e. Father Christmas
• 2D: Upscale wedding reception amenity (CHAIR COVER) - interesting answer, though "amenity" seems weird to me. They're usually plain and don't exactly provide added pleasure. Also, not terribly "upscale," in my experience.
• 7D: TV host with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame (TREBEK) - off the "R" in WHOEVER, I honestly considered DR. PHIL.
• 11D: He had righteous blood, per Matthew 23:35 (ABEL) - nice little misdirect there, using N.T. to clue O.T. figure.
• 28D: Texas city near the Coahuila border (DEL RIO) - really helps to know your southwest geography today, with DEL RIO and TAOS (21D: County with the restor town Red River) holding the key to the grid's NE territory.

• 31D: Staples of jazz music (TENOR SAXES) - Didn't think of Mavis Staples as a jazz singer, so took "Staples" at face value and was eventually rewarded for doing so.
• 45D: Emmy-winning reality show host of 2008, '09 and '10 (PROBST) - Jeff PROBST of "Survivor" fame. I used to watch that show. Wife still does. It's a (very) minor point of contention in the household.
• 42A: Cheap cigar, in slang (EL ROPO) - I know almost all my cigar terminology from crosswords. I can only think of CLARO right now, but I'm sure there's more.
• 33D: Big creature in un zoológico (OSO) - a bear. I had the last "O" and just guessed. Correctly.

Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld

Crossword Music Videos - Used to be my favorite Sunday blog   Saturday, January 29, 2011 Constructor: Ned White Relative difficulty: Easy THEME: none   Word of the Day: EEL GRASS ( 38D: Freshwater plant also called wild celery ) - Vallisneria is a genus of freshwater aquatic plant , commonly called ...... Read MORE » on Dogmeat

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Fabulous Monsters (aka Famous Monsters)

Fabulous Monsters (aka Famous Monsters)

Apologies for ripping-off the Kerrang! interview below, but there was so little material about the band on-line, I thought it was worth a scan. Oh, and they changed their name to “Fabulous Monsters” for legal reasons, shortly before disbanding for unknown reasons. Shame… they make me laugh, and there’s too little fun in the music world these days. For some reason only the Japanese seem to understand that…

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From Kerrang! circa 5/98
Words: Joshua Sindell

The Beastie Girls

DUFF McKAGAN leans back against the bar of Los Angeles’ famed Troubadour club and stares in abject disbelief. The object at the erstwhile Guns N’ Roses’ bassist’s gaze? The three wildly dressed masked women on the stage gyrating madly to their own sound.
     The fanged Vampire Girl jabs away at her guitar’s strings, churning out twangy surf-rock riffs. Over on drums, the tall and green-wigged She-Zilla stands and pounds away, slamming her snare drum as her tail sways gently behind her. It’s the final song of the Famous Monsters’ set – a cover of the Cheap Trick chestnut ‘Clock Strikes Ten’ – and lead guitarist/vocalist Devil Doll beams as she watches her band bashing out the final chords.
     The horned lass in the tight red outfit quickly thanks the crowd for their warm, if slightly astonished, applause and the trio swiftly head upstairs to their dressing room, passing their tourmates, sci-fi garage rockers Man Or Astroman?, on the way. Duff McKagan decides that this is his cue to depart as well. But not before the bleached-blond one hesitantly approaches Kerrang! with an important question on his mind. “Say,” he says, a quizzical expression contorting his face, “wasn’t Sean Yseult from White Zombie supposed to be in that band?”
     The next day, we’re gathered at the expansive Silver lake home of While Zombie guitarist J Yuenger. J has offered the costumed creatures a place to crash before they continue their tour up the California coastline. When the Duff McKagan incident is related to the outlandish trio, the Famous Monsters howl with laughter.
     Devil Doll smiles a knowing smile. Sean Yseult – for it is indeed she, her corkscrews of lime-green curls tightly coiled under a red wig, plastic horns on her head and a pointy tail waving behind her – is having the lime of her life. For the White Zombie bassist, Famous Monsters are a chance to return to her trashy, garage rock roots.
     A non-stop party straight outta the Crescent City of New Orleans, the Monsters have given Yseult a break from the Zombie’s thunderous sounds and unbelievably lengthy touring schedules. For their part, both She-Zilla (Carol Cutshall) and Vampire Girl (Katie Campbell) claim that they’ve never heard of Devil Doll’s other band – although they admit to having seen the movie of the same name.
     Will this project cause any conflict between the two camps?
     “I think there’s room for two bands on this planet,” notes Devil Doll. Her two colleagues nod vigorously in agreement. It’s a rare moment of seriousness for the threesome. Famous Monsters refuse to be addressed by their real names or remove their masks. All three claim to hail from a planet called Monster Island, but say they’ve now “emigrated” to Earth. They have, quite clearly, superglued their tongues to their cheeks.
     "”We’ve come down from our Monster Island planet to try to inhabit Earth for a little while, explains Devil Doll with an impressively straight face. And play these songs that we just wrote a couple of months ago.”
     "”We knew that Cheap Trick were from here!” exclaims She-Zilla.
        All three of the Monsters name the legendary Chicago band as their all-time musical heroes.
     "”We had a hard time finding a place on Earth that was comfortable,” Devil Doll continues. We finally came across New Orleans. It was just like Monster Island: a 24-hour party with lots of monsters, ghouls and drag queens.”
     Vampire Girl: "”And fiends!”"
     She-Zilla: "”And graveyards!”"
     The Famous Monsters’ sound is a whacked-out mix of creepshow instrumental themes and ’60s surf sounds. Songs like ‘Vampire Cosmonaut’, ‘Murder Beach USA’ and ‘Destroy Puny Earthlings’ are rollicking examples of their single-minded (and simple-minded) pursuit of hauntingly good fun.
     Famous Monsters first came together three years ago. Back then, they had a male drummer by the name of Frankie Stein.
     They released a seven-inch single, ‘Monster Girls… Are Go!!’, on US indie Estrus Records and then promptly disappeared. Of course, now that they’ve emigrated to Earth they’ll be able to put out their self-titled debut album in October on Bong Load Custom Records and take their creepy-music-for-party-people ethic to the world at large!
     Devil Doll ponders her fascination for the surf-rock sound, eyes wide behind her crimson mask.
    “Maybe, down in Hell when I was a baby, I got influenced by someone surfin’ on those fiery waves!” she improvises wildly. “I dunno, is anybody dead from (US surf legends) The Ventures? I must have been raised on that music somehow.”
     That, or she’s been inspired by the clutch of instrumental bands, like the aforementioned Man Or Astroman? and Guitar Wolf, who’re currently burning up the club circuit in the US.
     “I just picked up the guitar a few months ago and started writing all these songs, and I’m not really sure where they came from,” she insists. “We might have had a satellite dish beam down some interplanetary sounds to us on Monster Island, possibly when Man Or Astroman? were flying by.”
     We’ll take that as a ‘yes’.
     "”I’ve been hitting and destroying things all my life,” interjects She-Zilla, twitching restlessly, “and the drums were the first thing I could find that I could hit and not destroy!”
     With White Zombie currently in a coma – what with mainman Rob Zombie preparing for the release of a solo album and a tour -this is the perfect lime for Sean, er, Devil Doll to express herself in new and unexpected ways.
     “I’m enjoying (playing lead guitar) immensely,” she says, fiddling with her tail. “I just have these little melodies in my head and it’s nice to be able to play them. I’d played some of them on a four-string bass guitar, but it just doesn’t make a nice sound. It’s good to be able to play chords. And I especially like the whammy bar on a guitar!”
     It’s a beauty of an axe, too, with a glittering red finish and Devil’s pitchforks printed all along the fretboard.
     As for Zombie guitarist-in-residence J, looking youthfully clean-cut without his dreadlocks, he maintains that he isn’t the slightest bit threatened by his bass-playing bandmate’s move into his territory.
     “Not at all,” he laughs, happily picking at a guitar in another room of his house, decorated in eccentric fashion with dozens of fez hats. ”But I do think I’m the only member of White Zombie not totally into the surf music thing… although I do like it.”
     The Famous Monsters now have their claws extended and sharpened for mass destruction on a global scale.
      “If we can handle the climate here on Earth we’re going to stick around,” deadpans Devil Doll, “because people so far have been very nice, and New Orleans is very conducive for our music. I think we’ll be around for a least a year, or 10, or a100.”
     “But there’s other things I want to do!” wails She-Zilla, tearing at her green hair.
     “Such as?” asks Devil Doll.
     “Well, I’ve always wanted to be a… manicurist! I love to rock, but I do have other interests.”
     Do Famous Monsters write their songs with a certain type of fan in mind?
     “They’re especially for teenage boys in Japan,” replies Vampire Girl, her smile showing off her fangs.
     Devil Doll: “We’re hoping that Tokyo enjoys our music.”
     Have audiences been screaming out for ‘More Human Than Human’ or ‘Thunder Kiss ’65′?
     “No,” says Devil Doll, “but we keep hearing of this thing called ‘Freebird’.”
     “All animals should be free,” concludes Vampire Girl with an air of authority.
     Have people been yelling out the name of Devil Doll’s alter-ego, then?
     “No, but I’ve heard a few people yelling out ‘Godzilla’ a few times,” she grins. “They must like She-Zilla’s Daddy a lot.”
     In Kerrang! 705, Rob Zombie talked at length about his solo album and his Zombie A Go~Go record label. Zombie A Go-Go is devoted to releasing records by surf-rock bands such as LA combos The Bomboras and The Ghastly Ones, but Rob claimed he had no idea what Sean was doing or of the Famous Monsters’ existence.
     “That’s interesting,” ponders Devil Doll, “Our guitarist J knew about it.”
     Our guitarist? Don’t you mean White Zombie’s guitarist?
     “Right, right,” she laughs. “And I later found out that Rob was trying to get a lot of the bands on the Estrus label for his label. But I don’t think he knew who Famous Monsters were. Very interesting. “
     With that, the three Monsters rise to take in what’s left of the LA sunshine. We idly inquire where they got their fabulous costumes from.
     “Costumes?” they cry in unison.
     “They are our outfits,” snorts Devil Doll. “We’ve been wearing them forever!”
     “This is my favourite outfit,” smiles She-Zilla.
     “She-Zilla,” gasps Devil Doll, “it’s your only outfit!”

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Fabulous Monsters (aka Famous Monsters) Fabulous Monsters (aka Famous Monsters) Apologies for ripping-off the Kerrang! interview below, but there was so little material about the band on-line, I thought it was worth a scan. Oh, and they changed their name to “Fabulous Monsters” for legal reasons, sh ...... Read MORE » on Dogmeat

You thought Jerry Lee Lewis on T.J. Hooker was Killer, But you hadn't seen him speak Italian in Police Story!

JERRY LEE LEWIS: POLICE STORY [ITALIAN DUB TV 1973 Pt. 1

JERRY LEE LEWIS: POLICE STORY [ITALIAN DUB TV 1973 Pt. 1

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C.W. McCall Best Cannibal Song EVER! (Alfred Packer Story)

C.W.McCall Comin Back For More

 

C.W. McCall

"Comin' Back for More"
1999

[co-writer: Chip Davis] from

"The Real McCall: An American Storyteller"

Alfred (Alferd) G. Packer
 

Maneater of Colorado!
 

(January 21, 1842: Allegheny County, Pa April 23, 1907)

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In 1873, Alferd Packer, 31, left with a group of 20 others, Bingham Canyon, UT, near Salt Lake City, into the San Juan Mountains, Colorado to seek wealth mining minerals & gold... the miners soon grew hungry and desperate ...they arrived, Jan., 1874 into Chief Ouray's Ute camp, Colorado, and urged to remain until spring. 

  On February 9, Packer joined four other prospectors, for Los Piños, a 10-day supply of food for a 75-mile trip.

The doomed men with Packer were:

Shannon Wilson Bell

Israel Swan

 

James Humphrey

Frank "Reddy" Miller,

and

George "California" Noon  

 

  

Aside from Packer, that was the last time anyone saw the men alive. Two months passed and Packer emerged alone from the wilderness, April 16. From all appearances, he had killed the others, survived off their meat, and enriched himself with their assets.

August 1874

FOUND PROSPECTORS

half-eaten human remains,
Slumgullion Pass, near Gunnison River, Lake City, CO.

 

May 8, 1883:

CONFESSION
[Packer gave a second confession, March 16]

Packer's statement

The five men died at various stages of their journey, either from starvation or killed in self-defense from hunger-mad attacks.

Order of Death

1. I.S.
2. J.H.
3. F.M.
4. G.N.
 

 

Packer and Bell remained:

"Bell wanted to kill me," Packer confessed, "struck at me with his rifle...." Packer killed him.

Packer's trial began, April 6, 1883, Hinsdale County Courthouse, Lake City, Co. Nine years after he'd emerged from the wilderness, Alfred Packer was convicted [Friday the 13th, April 1883] of premeditated murder --Israel Swan.
Packer was condemned to be hanged by Judge Gerry, whose apocryphal sentencing is excerpted here:

"Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' sonofabitch and receive yir sitince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of 'em..."

Jailed in Saguache, he escaped , vanishing for several years, until March 11, 1883, Packer was *discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming living under the alias, John Schwartze. He was tried again and sentenced to 40 years. Through the efforts of the Denver Post, who wanted to exhibit Packer as part of a circus, his conviction was reversed on a technicality, and he was freed in 1901 from Canon City Penitentiary [two of the publishers were shot by attorney, William Anderson, who was finally acquitted; the judge saying, "Your motive was admirable, but your marksmanship abominable"].

Paroled, February 8, 1901, he worked as a guard at the Denver Post.

He died in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, CO, reputedly of

"Senility - trouble & worry"--age 65.

Packer became a vegetarian before his death.

  He was buried in Littleton, Colorado.

 

His grave is marked with a veteran's tombstone.

• Cannibal:
• Alferd Packer Grave:
    6155 South Prince Street, Littleton, CO
    Littleton Cemetery

 

The Alferd Packer Massacre Site, a remote wilderness in 1874, is now only five minutes south of the Lake City miniature golf course, and a very popular spot with shutterbugs. A big sign directs visitors to the spot, complete with cartoon caricatures of two mountain men, mouths agape in horror and shock as (we are left to imagine) an ax is driven into their skulls. A small rock marks THE spot, complete with a plaque listing the victims. Five tiny white crosses form a defensive line in front of it. Free brochures fill a metal box adjacent to the site, chock full of juicy tidbits about Alferd's ghastly doings.

• 

There is some debate about the correct spelling of Packer's first name. His gravestone reads "Alfred," and there is an Alfred Packer listed in the census documents of the time. Actually, the story goes that Alfred got a tattoo which had his name. The tattooist misspelled his name "Alferd" and Packer sort of took to it, and used it except for on official documents and such.

 

•   

  Relics Of Alferd Packer, American Cannibal

•  130 Silver St., Lake City, CO
  

C.W. McCall Comin Back For More

http://visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com/2009/04/cw-convoy-mccall-comin-back-for...

 

my new favorite obsession between c.w. McCall, and a video h'm working on about an historical cannibal.

PLUS BONUS**********

Cledus Maggard - CB Lingo

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It’s a grate song so it’s to bad I can not say the same about the video. .S once again why the hell is this not on iTunes.
qwer month ago
the first white rapper 
tomde months ago
@tomde obviously you can't tell a talking song from shit.
GrigoriZhukov month ago
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Send your letters and cards to Bill (CW McCall) at the address below.
Bill Fries
P.O. Bo
xOuray Colorado
He's now and it would be nice to let him know we appreciate what he did for musicColorado and the wilderness.
He won't be around much longer but I think he's still with us..
for now.
Peace
-g
jetpoweredgriffin months ago
put simply McCall and Back For More rock.
qwer months ago
woow im and love this song and mcall
tank months ago
Nice to see ol' Willy Fries doin' what he does BEST!
Radiodj months ago
@Radiodj You have got that right!
vbdenny months ago
Old Willy Fries still looks good! Nice to see him again. I hope he does a few more videos!
Yes...this is the same CW McCall from "Convoy" fame.
nascarfan months ago
o.o
I'm so happy I finally found this!
It used to be on my Dr Demento CD but I lost that.
D:
lilshawty months ago
@lilshawty My local library had some Dr. Demento CDs. One of those CDs had this song.
ChrisCa months ago
Thanks for posting this. I've been looking for it for a long time.
badwolf year ago
bill is around the last time i checked but he is a legend and im a young person a i love him his best song is there wont be no country music i lisend to him at night before i went to bed all the time
tank year ago
@tank
Cw McCall was born William Dale Fries Jr. on November in Audubon Iowa.
user year ago
Same with me tank. This song has really grown on me. As much as I love every song on Wolf Creek Pass and Black Bear Road this song blows them all away. Does Bill have a new CD out with more songs?
Just excellent. Awesome Bill
vbdenny year ago
I heard this way back on DR demento. I was watching Cannibal The musical and I decided in this google age this would be easy to find.
imperialpilotx year ago
Utter brilliance!
kirky year ago
best of health to Old Bill!
Winonasalibi year ago
I've had the CD for a long time and never knew there was a video!
I think this was more than a little inspired by Frank Zanders' "Ur-Ur-Enkel von Frankenstein".
Search here for Frankenstein Zander. I like the " " original you'll find there much better than the remake - but I only see a real video for the latter.
Almost the same music and theme with Frankenstein catching people and using them for spare parts!
You can find the German lyrics and have Google translate.
tttar year ago
The last original .W. song. A fast and loose interpretation of an actual event..
Alferd Packer was the only person in the .S.A. who was ever be convicted of cannibalism. One day in the dead of winter he left Lake City with five men despite warnings of bad weather. In the spring Al returned to civilization but without his companions — and with a lot of money.
Google his name for a good read.
Bill will sign stuff if you send it to him. But please remember to include return postage for your item (and packaging too if thats required) or you may not get it back. Bill is a one-man operation.
Any one who is interested can write to him.
Bill Fries; PO Box Ouray CO
If I send my $ . to Nebraska can I still join the fan club?
Bill ROCKS!
bootsycollins year ago
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what the fuck is this shit?
thelatedavidsmith year ago
Stay off these comments if you can't keep a civil tongue in your head.
Tom year ago
no i stand by my statement. this bullshit is NOTHING like convoy.
Love this song! So many songs about Al Packer. Anyone ever see Cannibal the musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone? An entire movie musical Al Packer. Excellent movie if you can find it. Cheers.
HonkyTonkBuffalo year ago
but he diddnt he die?
polker year ago
No Bill is still alive! Had dinner with him in July .
Any one who is interested can write to him.
Bill Fries; PO Box  Ouray CO
Bill is one heck of a guy and we look forward to seeing him in July.
He just had his th Birth day on November .
Not to my knowledge.
Same CW from Convoy?
polker years ago
Yep. Sure is.  The Rubber Duck Himself.
Tom years ago
You can totally hear the sounds of Mannheim Steamroller in this song. Still the man is amazing.
firstRainbowRose years ago
He doesn't look like he'd have that voice
Excellent though
RubberDucky years ago
C.W Is great
fontheking years ago
is cw still alive??
kix fan years ago
Yes he is. Last i heard he lives on Ouray CO. He Turns Nov
I wish you were my grandpa. I'm always coming back for more!
Videopwnd years ago
WAY TO GO .W.! GLAD to see your back finally!
signmanj years ago
Thanks for posting this. Other than aging a bit he hasn't changed a bit. Read something about him being mayor of Ouray Colorado.
statlerlover years ago
its canibal
al packard was a canibal
he went up looking for gold with other guys and there was a blizzard
when he got back the guys werebt there
and the folks in lake city say that he ate the two guys
so the were to have him hang but he got out and they never found him
andyson years ago
This happens to be my fave video for Halloween as it describes a real-life ghost story the ghosts being the victims of Alfred Packer (found guilty of five counts of murder back in the early 's).
bcschmerker years ago
i would so hate to be one of those dancers with the big hats lol
darkfox years ago
I agree
TJE years ago
Nice. I love his music. To bad his attempt to come back in the early didnt work out.
JJ years ago
Anyone got a copy of "Pine Tar Wars"( McCall ) they can upload?
daveg otu years ago
Look around and you should be able to find CW's web site. Because he retained the rights to his songs he put all of them up for download for free. I got the entire collection there a few years ago (legally).
mushroom year ago
What is the best way to get it to you?
Right Arm Farm Out Out of state. Keep it up
LOL
DROBIRTS years ago
anybody know how old is this video and where is he at now?
ORTIZ years ago
He is and in Ouray Colorado.
my friend carl can do that for a job
a dancer
Shingletowner years ago
Absolute magic!
My bad. He was mayor of Ouray CO.
MorrisKitty years ago
Yeah somthing like that.
GumbyandGoo years ago
Last I heard he was mayor of Pagosa Springs but that was quite a while ago and may have been apocryphal. Hmm. Gotta check that out now.
Sadly this was done a little while ago and he is now (I believe) retired.
LandRoverMan years ago
OUTSTANDING!!! I have always wondered what CW McCall was up to lately! I pray he does more stuff like this >: ) LOL!!! Keep it comin!!
wyorattler years ago
The master at work.
Go Al Packer.

 

 

this one, however, i cannot omit thanking ms. j. Aldridge for turning me on.

II.

what she lacks in time to blog for [::] because of her insanely popular:

http://www.seaofshoes@typepad.com

she makes up for, in an equation whereby the difference beween blog a. and blog b. where x equals the number of unique hits and the the blog with the lesser amount of hits is divided into the blog with the greater, and where the result represents the percentage or deficit in a random example day of a. and b. [approx. 100%],

for her inspiration, artfulness and charm.

it is a true honor to lower her carriage step for her egress of the golden carriage, sartorially bejeweled with scepter in glove, and assumes her royal position as figurehead, a metaphor for J. whom calls one's posts in; which as HRH Man Friday, I do not complain, but am only happy to her bidding.

Watch that film about the butlers with the Hannibal lecturing that other older doyenne of British film's, both of whom, i believe won some type of award for their acting in the film which has still not come to me because it is DEFINITELY NOT THE ENGLISH PATIENT...WAIT, maybe it is, no that had ray fines in it and was set in a dessert, but not the one that was OUT of Africa, M I, remember them, what happened to their slow Marsala celluloid. nope, still not there. all i can think of now is Cannibalism and also, about how when i was in eighth grade, me, and everyone else my age what's that? adolescence? were obsessed with the book 'Alive.'
I, perhaps, as exponentially, was mega-(the proper word to indicate, whatever superlative currently does the job, oh, right! sooo)obsessed, and nearly wet my pants when it came out as movie and i got to see people eat people for the first time.

there was no internet, and i'm not old enough to be a first-run b-movie teen; and sadly, only monthly did Key Club God, Guccione, let his publication find it's way, always-bizarrely into my eager young hands, where through textual particulars de le sexe, i am still able to blame and credit both he and Xavier Hooker Hollandaise for any sexual peculiarities AND experteases i may now possess. yes, the art of cunnilingus, was far away.

i'm apparently on the cusp of what is officially the last year in which one can include oneself into the, not unpleasant, except for that movie...oh, shit, where the bb's get together and listen to Motown and sing it in a house, and William hurt is in it...no, this really must stop...i know it from negative reinforcement better than i know my own, something like the something club, no, now I'm thinking breakfast club, okay, ill stop after if get this one out. fuck the other one, what was the other one anyway? good. the...it had a big o horrible soundtrack and the real hardcore baby boozer's/slash/yuppies were way into it and there was huge sucking ensemble of emotive actors emoting and people were drinking wine and singing awful, only through their overkill, Motown and it was named....FEUdk9pu r4tpuf

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