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Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng

Horror Stuff, Mindless Raving, Rare/OOP Recordings Dug Up From The Vinyl Grave, and Anything Sufficiently Weird

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Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng



There are now two sides to Leng:
Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng (here)
and
Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng: The Dungeon

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Poe Through The Glass Prism

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Here comes something strange...



Poe Through The Glass Prism - released in 1969 by Glass Prism (a band from Pennsylvania in the late '60s - early '70s). Picture trippy early prog rock meets concept-based album chock full of songs about Edgar Allen Poe's writings and you'll get the idea. A pretty good album worth checking out if you like Poe and/or funky rock music.

This was the first of two studio albums put out on the RCA-Victor label - produced by Gene Weiss, managed by Mort Lewis (who was managing the likes of Simon and Garfunkle, and B,S&T at the time), and with non-other than Les Paul as sound engineer. (After releasing a second album, they broke up in '71 and reformed sans a member under the name Shenandoah, switched out the bass player for another one and recorded an album that was not released, then kept playing and whatnot till '76 when they spilt up more permanent like - aside from a couple recent "reunion" type gigs in support of the the Edgar Allen Poe Society and to get footage for a documentary.)

Don't let the haircuts on the cover scare you away! :yikes: Look at the pic on the left below and you can see them in gig playin' mode and looking a lot more like a rock band. Next to that you can see them creeping around some castle-type fortification in black capes - playing some early version of Vampire the Masquerade perhaps. :wink: And next to that is the back cover with little lyricy lyrics you can almost read if you zoom the pic in enough and then finally a pic of the album single and its paper sleeve for no particular reason. But its got a moderately colorful design in a circular pattern on it. :psmurf:





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The Origin of Superstition

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The Origin of Superstition, also known as Superstition On The Air was a series of 15 minute radio plays produced way back in 1935 with the goal of revealing the origins of various superstitions such as wishing on a shooting star, rabbits feet, opening umbrellas indoors, walking under ladders, friday the 13th, black cats crossing your path, not sailing on fridays, breaking wishbones, four leaf clovers, etc, etc.

I have posted some episodes so check them out if you want.


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Troll Pack!

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Well after posting that King Kong record I was reminded how fun stuff written by Cherney Berg often is so I decided to throw out a few more Bergian things. I did a quick look around for what was currently on my drive and found the Troll records at least 2 of which have stories adapted by Cherney. Then I had a thought that threw me from that idea on to a slightly related one (this is how my brain works and why I am usually in the middle of at least 50 different projects, none of which seem to ever quite get finished P: )

I decided if I'm going to post a couple Troll Records anyway, I might as well get all of them I have and post them all together. So after hunting around a bit I found where I put them all and here we go with the Troll Records Pack of DOOM!! (feat. stories adapted by Cherney Berg)
[mentally insert thunder and lightning effects here]



In this package of Trollish goodies you will find:

Great Ghost Stories
The Headless Horseman Of Sleepy Hollow
Erica Frost's I Can Read About Ghosts
Scary Spooky Stories
Thrillers And Chillers
and
Weird Tales Of The Unknown

I originally got these ages ago from either Scar Stuff or Mostly Ghostly so all due credit to the original posters. I've never seen them all together in one post though so I don't think I'm being too redundant in re-upping them. Enjoy!

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A King Kong Classic

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Here we have one of those classic Golden Records... King Kong The Original Motion Picture Classic adapted for recording by Cherney Berg.

This is a story album based on the movie. I spent some time cleaning up the record audio and I think it sounds pretty good considering the age.

Cast:

Capt. Englehorn - Daniel Ocko
Driscoll - Nat Polen
Denham - Ralph Bell
Anne - Elaine Rost

Adapted by: Cherney Berg
Directed by: Daniel Ocko
Sound Effects by: Ralph Curtis

KingKongCover Side01 Side02

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Holy BatPack!

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Batman: The Musical (Song Demos from the musical that never was finished)
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Batmania - Songs Inspired by Batman TV Series




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Additional post for the 4th

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Well I meant to post this the other day but it took forever to locate it and then the old crash-happy 'puter was giving me no end of trouble when I was trying to clean the audio up a bit. Anyway, I have this old 2 record set from 1978 I believe, called Goofy Gold. Its one of those great records full of goofy novelty songs. I'd post a pic of the cover but I was unable to locate one via web searches and I can't make one myself because we don't seem to have the record sleeve anymore - which is why I had trouble finding the records. After hours of looking everywhere it wasn't, I discovered someone had both records jammed in with the Funnybone record.

Amongst all the usual tracks you tend to find on such compilations, it has a track with Johnny Horton's 1959 recording of Arkansas history teacher Jimmy Driftwood's 'Battle of New Orleans.' Which of course seems like a great idea for the 4th of July, right? I hope everyone who survived the fire hazards and explosions and didn't blow their hand off holding a M-80 will still be in the mood for this 2 days later.


[The Battle of New Orleans]


Interestingly, this song - which went to number one in the US on both the pop and country charts - actually reached number 16 on the British charts despite the BBC banning the song. (Because of the lyrics 'the bloody British.')

Full-Length version of Metropolis unearthed!!



Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis is one of the true classics in all of film history. And now, 80 years after it was made, the missing scenes have been discovered in Buenos Aires!! (Seriously.) Apparently they make the story easier to understand and flesh out some of the characters... read all about it at
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