The-what-would-have-been-if-what-is-hadn't-happened.
November 30, 2010 11:30 PM Subscribe
Still
hyped by his local press as a "neglected rock-and-roll genius"
Ralph F. Gean is an old rockabilly guy who
almost "made it" back in the early 1960s…
but didn’t… and then
sort of did after all.
Along the way he became a Mormon, got into trouble with the Feds, and
lived on the streets; all the while making
weird music that nobody paid any attention to. Rediscovered in the ‘90s by the likes of
Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys),
Boyd Rice (Non),
Eric Allen (Apples In Stereo) and others, Ralph briefly made something of a forty-years-too-late comeback, and released a
double-disc retrospective which garnered him enough attention to get him
profiled and interviewed a few years ago on Canada's "Collective Voice Radio Programme," and then later onto
Al Gore’s Current TV,
crooning a tune about how Barack Obama will ruin the country. Now in his late sixties, Ralph is
still playing live solo shows around Denver, Colorado, and occasionally
guest-
deejays with college kids on Boulder radio station 11.90, with
surreally amusing results.
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 11:56 PM on November 30, 2010