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HOT MONT
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6-24-01: Hot Tamontle reviews
7-30-01: Arctic Circle Tour-interview 9-3-01: Hawaiian Pineapple's Ree- Don-Dello interview 8-2-02:Perpetual Intro: Hot Mont Techno Album from Germany 10-16-02: Shattco: We sell only things that people want! 2-10-05:Hot Mont reverse hip-hop country ! (with audio samplers!) 8-7-05: Dufwinque is a Quack! 2-26-06: Bones of Contention trombone album? |
HOT TAMONTLE REVIEWS
 "This (the
Hot Ta-Mont-Le) album is destined to be Mont's biggest seller yet.
We are totally behind this album!" -Les "Sniff" Brown / Sniff Brown Records
1975 "Move over
Tito, step back Carlos, make way Sergio 'cuz El Monte Caliente is
comin' on strong with his own flavor of Latin music!"
-Bill Baulgruber
WRST -TV / Tidioute, Pa.
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"The "HOT
TA-MONT-LE" soundtrack is extremely exciting... if anyone finds it,
it should well prove Hot is at the avant-garde of this genre (as
well as many others). To me the sound is as if Sergio Mendez had
dived head first in to a stream of Deep Purple... an excellent blend
of sounds to capture a new interest in the ever-changing fickleness
of the 70's music..."
-Malcolm Drie / Rolling Rock
Magazine "...'Mind
boggling' is the only description for this latest incarnation of the
ever-re-inventing Hot Mont. First he's a Dylan-esque rocker, then a
"big band" leader....now he's the 'king of Salsa music'! And this
stuff is totally legitimate, with every bit as much energy and
authenticity as the first Santana albums. A great combination of
true Latin music fused with heavy American/British rock. Although
he's not the first to do this particular fusion of styles, he's
still throwing us older fans another curve ball on this !
Beautiful!"
-Cal Worthing / Rock EaterMag
1975 "I put on
this latest piece of vinyl by the Hot One with a bit of
apprehension. After the last fiasco with the big band era "Cool
Cats", I didn't feel like sitting through more "stylized"
formula-ridden music . Obviously, I didn't care for the that album.
Was this to be more nostalgia crap? No Way, Jose! This album rocks.
From the opening bell, it's back to the rockin' we all love Hot for.
Blend in Uriah Heep, Santana, Deep Purple, maybe just a little
Antonio Carlos Jobim & that's what you'll get here. Welcome back
to the rock world, Hot!" -Tab
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Astounding as it may seem, the original band
line-up (minus the horn section) is actually touring in of all
places..... Northern Canada! A tourist entertainment paper in
Whitehorse, Yukon featured an extended interview with Mont last
week. Here are excerpts:
YR: What
brings you & your band way up here from the U.S?
HM: We
figured that no one who remembered us would ever be here!
YR: I know of
you from browsing the web. Are you in trouble with the law?
HM: No, not
at all..we just wanted a place to get the band "tight" You said that
you have never heard of us except on the web, but we had a huge cult
following in several countries during the seventies. There has been
an upwelling of interest in the band recently, so we figured it may
be time to put it back together.
Slim Boggins:
(guitarist): Let me add to that. Mont has been incognito for over
two decades. Even the rest of us guys in the band didn't hear from
him. This was the shock of a lifetime.
YR: So, you
hadn't seen each other for more than twenty years? What have all of
you been doing during that time?
Slim: Well,
when Mont vanished in '77, I was pretty strung out on drugs. I'm
clean now, by the way, have been for fifteen years. In those days, I
loved a song by Frank Zappa called "Montana". It told about a guy
leaving the rat race to raise up dental floss. So, that's what I
tried. I moved out to Montana, bought some land & started
raising dental floss. It didn't work out with the floss, but I still
have a small ranch out there near Boseman.
Larry
Laugerhead: (keyboardist) I've been working in retail shoe sales
& playing music on the side since '77. I even played in a Hot
Mont tribute band in Ohio for a while...pretty ironic for a founding
member to do a tribute to his own band!
B. C.
Whackerman: (drummer): When the band broke up, I had a tough
decision: to stay with music or follow my family military/law
enforcement traditions. I chose the latter & I've only started
playing again this year. I love being back out here on the road
again!
H.M.: Local
& federal statutes may prohibit me from speaking of my
past.(laughs)
YR: What
happened to the horn section you all refer to?
H.M. I have
never heard from them. You know, the definition of an optimist is a
trombone player with a beeper. (laughs). Not a lot of call for four
piece trombone sections these days.
YR: Any plans
to record new material? And, on the same note, what's the story on
this "greatest hits" collection being remastered from scraps of
tape? Some guys in Pennsylvania are doing it?
H.M. As far
as recording new stuff, we're not to that point yet. We've gotta
decide if we're even gonna continue this touring down south when the
cold hits in September. This tour is over in late August, it get's
too cold for us ! As far as the guys in LaTrobe remastering my
stuff, I have never met them, but let them go for it . Sniff Brown
(Sniff Brown Records-Mont's label) is dead now, he's the only one
who would try to stop them.
More excerpts from this interview next
month.. gotta run -Bill Del
Rumple/7-30-01 |
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REE-DON-DELLO, formerly the leader of the Hawaiian Pineapples Rock Ensemble
finally emerges from the depths of the
South American jungle to grant this interview with Groovy Scene's
Tab Wenderson. |
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G.S.: What
have you been doing for the last twenty-plus years?
R.R I've been
trying to keep my shit together. The failed tours in the seventies
really freaked me out.
G.S : Lots of
legit rock bands never have the opportunity to do a major tour, yet
they don't retreat to the wilds of South America.. Why the
extreme reaction to your unpopularity there ?
R.R : Once
you've toured with Hot Mont (who is the pinnacle of all legitimate
American pop culture to me) you'd understand how anything else seem
superfluous and anticlimactic! After our rejection by the Latin
audience here in South America, it was more than I could take. All
we ever wanted was a little piece of Hoot Mont's audience &
respect. We opened for him for 2 years in the states before
coming here to do the Tamontle tour. To be rejected by the same
people that adored Hot Mont was devastating to us as a band and even
worse for me as the leader .
G.S. Keeping
that rejection in mind, why would you retreat to the same place that
had rejected you?
R.R Well, if
you knew anything about the Don't Give Me No Shit Twins, you
wouldn't have to ask. I'm one of those twins and it was no
retreat!
G.S. I've
heard rumors of this cult or whatever it is, but thought it was just
hearsay.
R.R. Nope;
we're the real McCoy! My brother & I can no more tolerate
critical rejection by an entire continent than we could stand by and
let someone pour out a perfectly good can of Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Anything important like that is worth fighting for as a
principle…you can't waste great beer & you can't dislike
my music, damn it! I had to come here to settle this at the source.
It's in my blood not to give in to anyone, to fight till no one is
left standing!
G.S.: What
was your biggest selling single?
R.R: That
would have to be "Steel Jock Strap" from the "Hawaiian Pumice Rock"
album. It was a song that played on bar room jukeboxes & helped
us sell a few extra "Pumice" albums off the stage.
G.S.: To what
do you attribute your dismal response by Latin American audiences
?
R.R : The
timing mostly. Pineapple membership became as large as a 27 piece
horn & string rock band, doing something that was revolutionary
for the U.S. in the early seventies, but maybe it appeared just too
strange to Latin American people. The fact that a lot of band
members were not musicians may have come into play, as the actual
music was a little rough. We've been compared to Captain Beefheart
in several articles.
G.S: I'd
compare you more to early Aqueous Digit or maybe even Mel Maas
Psychedelic Combo…. but with the addition of incredibly bad horns
& strings.
R.R. : Don't
give me no shit!
G.S.: Is it
possible that The Pineapples didn't survive the Tamontle Tour
because they were just too lousy?
R.R.: By god,
now I'm startin' to bow up! You better watch yourself. There aren't
many people who can outrun us D.G.M.N.S. Twins!
G.S.: I'm
festered up to a fever-pitch myself. Step back, we're gonna
rumble.
R.R: I'm just
about to delve into your ass, don't piss me off any
more! At this point, a major round of fisticuffs
erupted, bringing this interview to a halt, and dashing any
hope of any subsequent interviews with this strange character.
Listen to the Hawaiian Pineapples for yourself; I'm sure
you'll agree they were the worst band ever to land a major opening
act slot in history of rock'n roll. The first Pineapple album is
available on vinyl or eight track only from www.rottenrecords.net
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Just when you thought that all of the Hot
Mont writings & recordings must have already been unearthed, a
discovery in a studio near Hamburg, Germany lends another life
chapter to the
"Man of Mystery" : Perpetual
Intro | ||||
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This is a reproduction of an article from
"El Petite Filipino Magazine" dated 4/13/02 & written by German
correspondent Reinholt Burgermeister (obvious pen name). Some
HMS2000 editing comments have been interjected. These comments
appear in blue italics.
-Regelia Karaokan for
HMS2000 | ||||
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Picture this
scenario: In late 1976 or early 1977 Hot Mont is enlisted by a
conservative group of American economists to travel to Germany to
give a series of lectures at several prominent universities. The
gist of these lectures is geared at trying to prevent a serious
socialistic shift in the German national attitude. Hot Mont's
Germanic heritage only increases his passion about this issue, and
he agrees to go. (This much was already
documented fact in America)
At a
conference in Hannover, Hot Mont is approached by music producer
Herman P. Wassell, who, it turns out is a huge fan of eclectic
American rock (including our hero's music!). The two men also
share a love of German brews and kartuffel salat (potato salad) &
decide to go to a local biergarten to imbibe &
talk.
After a few
days of banging around ideas, time is booked at a studio just
outside of Hamburg, and recording begins.
Legendary
drummer & percussionist Curt Von Stuben is brought in to handle
all of the rhythmic parts (except, of course, cowbell). But, in
only a few short days, electronic legends Kraftwerk block book the same
studio for 3 months straight. Mont & company are devastated by
this turn of events, and relinquish the studio to the high-budget
monoliths.
But before
all appears lost, they find that engineer Helmut Smidge had run an
acetate of some good working mixes of songs that had been
completed during the short session. (An acetate is a shellac test
version of what would have later become the vinyl 12" record. They
sound great the first time or two they're played, but quickly
deteriorate as the needle chews up the soft recording
surface.)
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Not only did they verify the album's existence (at least in unreleased form), but also stumbled onto a sort of “mini-cult” built around another horrible HoMoCo product line that was originally intended to be marketed to Americans who planned to travel in Europe.
balconies on narrow streets served as dump offs for chamber pots (often on passerby's heads). In other words, Shattco , and later, HoMoCo decided that they didn't have plumbing in Europe yet!
So, to
service this misperceived need, they invented and marketed a
line of products which would allow you to “relieve yourself”
pretty much anywhere, anytime.This line was collectively
called 'The Shatt Pack'. And consisted of The Shatt
Mat', 'The Shitt Mitt' and 'The Shatt-
Back- Pack'. A later released addition to the product line
was called 'Snout-Grout'., as well as development on
another even more ridiculous product called 'Some Sort of
Butt Putty'. The actual purpose of this product is
unknown
The
Germans found this whole product line so amusing that several
alternative papers there ran hilarious hoax ads. In next
month's article we'll print some of these hoax ads (complete
with the original German to English translations, which
only add to the humor!).
for more
Shattco, click here
-Rhineholt Pierpont Burgermeister III,
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The first of these, which is currently in production is titled "Blow It Out Yo' Butt" and showcases all rap & hip-hop songs. This concept album is destined to put the trombone back in mainstream pop. "The Bones" have enthusiastic major label backing and consequently, the record will feature several heavy weights including rappers Tone Def, Ice Cold Chill, and even d.j. Rupert Snap Dogg. Although the current studio location is strictly hush-hush, there are a couple of pirated moments from sessions that will be available soon. Locating the studio shouldn't be too hard. As always, wherever the 'Bones play their music, many dogs are howling outside the doors! 2-26-05 |
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Hot Mont has gone Nashville! Recently unearthed by the HMS2000 are some country demos produced by the "Hot One" in Music City. Back in the late 1990s, Hot Mont, along with countless other musicians, songwriters & producers had become very discouraged with the hip-hop community's relentless and blatent sampling of music from other genres. Hot Mont decided to pull a flip -flop on the hip-hop community.
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The idea was
to exact revenge on the hip-hop community's unchecked sampling by
taking some of rap's biggest selling songs & turning them into
traditional country arrangements.
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Dr.
DuFwinque, the alleged "world-renowned audio restoration expert"
working on the Hot Mont music restoration project has been exposed
as...a quack!
(picture to left shows a seemingly angry Anhav DuFwinque in front of the tool shed he now calls home) |
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Harry P. Peters (a.k.a. Dr.
Anhav DuFwinque) was recently arrested and booked by the
metropolitan Wattsburg, Pa police for alleged panhandling, petty
theft , impersonating a celebrity, and attempting to sell
marijuana to a minor. These charges were eventually dropped when
another similar looking man (Neil Knadsaak) came forward to admit
his guilt in all of the crimes except the impersonation charge.
Peters has been soliciting
donations through religious & other organizations, and panhandling
to try to keep his restoration dream alive, but has had very
little luck so far. Recently, the venerable HMS2000 Society (a
non-profit group that works to preserve the works of Hot Mont and
other now-obscure artists) was able to raise enough money to
retrieve some of the electronic gear through a modest payment to
the ex-owner of the Everhard Pencil Company.
This gear was recently set up in Peters' tool shed behind Shattco, in the hopes that he will be able to continue his work now that the warm weather is upon us. As a long-time follower, fan & chronicler of Hot Mont, my vote is that we give Peters a chance to redeem himself. This music needs to be restored regardless of the personal issues that Peters may be dealing with. Most of us would probably even be willing to refer to him once again as Dr. DuFwinque. (sort of a honorary degree much as celebrities are sometimes given). This may encourage this downtrodden person to lift himself back up and get to work again on the restoration! As a somewhat quirky but basically honest individual, DuFwinque would most surely be more resilient if he believes that we still believe. Bill Del Rumple 7-9-04 (just a footnote: one of DuFwinque's recent Elvis tribute performances was attended by none other than Wyan Lantz, the producer of most of Hot Mont's biggest selling records.) |
Hot Mont sighted at the finals of the
Chautauqua Idol Contest in Bemis Point, NY:
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Insiders
have been reporting for some time that Mont has relocated to the
'old stomping grounds' of his youth just outside Erie, Pa. This
report from the Phillipsville Zagette (regarding a sighting only a
few miles from the prestigious new HMS 2000 World Headquarters)
would seem to re-affirm that.
"On
the evening of August 21, 2006 in Bemis Point, NY at the
finalist’s event of the Chautauqua Idol Contest sponsored by WWSE
Radio in Jamestown, NY, Hot was recognized despite his usual
precautions. One of the local potato salad vendors who is an avid
supporter of The Hot Mont Society and fan of The Hot One, has
heard rumblings that Mont could attempt to attend this
prestigious local talent program. With camera in hand, the crowd
was searched quietly so as not to tip his hand but, unfortunately
Hot was not located. As the program was ending and the crowds were
dispersing, Mont was sighted walking away from the crowd
reportedly holding his stomach."
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Mont Is Again On The Prowl
For New Talent! |
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"Bohemian artist & commentator Hot Moth (sic) was very discouraged by the lukewarm response to his production of "reverse-hip-hop" artist Clay Bacon back in 1999. His whereabouts since than have been as sketchily reported as ever. It is known that
Hot left guitarist Slim Boggin's floss ranch in Montana shortly
after the first Bacon single stalled (a country remake of Tag
Team's
Read now several comments from prominent citizens attending the gala American Idol event at Bemis Point: "I'd know those wing-tips anywhere...that's definitely Monti !" -Nigel Tuffnelle, Shoe Salesman at Kinney's Shoes & part-time rock star "That boy can run, but he can't hide forever" -Ralph Fece, retired correctional officer from East Clintwood, Oh. His amazing appetite for potato salad gave him away, even with the excellent disguise. He almost ate the entire supply -D. Biggs, "World of Potato Salad" vendor at the event. I haven't heard from The Hot One since we pulled his "Whoomp" record from regular rotation back in 1999 for legal reasons. If he's really at this event, I'd like to apologize in person -Bill Baulgruber, program director for WURST, (The WURST FM), and a longtime supporter of Hot's music Whoever the hell he was, you could hardly get that fellow away from the Warsteiner tent. Except every few minutes, he'd leave to wolf down more potato salad next door . I wouldn't doubt he's got some god awful gas by now -Sid Viscous , local dairy farmer |
 
MONT SIGHTING
INTERVIEW
(courtesy of WSUXX RADIO):
9-7-06
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