Elvis Hitler - info sought

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A friend of mine wants to know, does anyone have any info about this artist, or know where material can be found? He's having a hard time tracking anything down.

Cheers.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 27 September 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

look into His Name is Alive

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 27 September 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Big album from Elvis Hitler was Disgraceland, but yeah, it was the project of Warren Defever of His Name is Alive. All three Elvis Hitler albums loonnnng out of print, I'd think. Amazon has a listing for Disgraceland in the used shops starting at $50 US.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 27 September 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Here is the Trouser Press entry: http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=elvis_hitler

Warren played bass, and according to this Time Stereo page, they had a one-time reunion last November: http://www.timestereo.com/indexarchive.php

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it was the project of Warren Defever of His Name is Alive

not completely. it was very much the project of jim leedy aka elvis hitler, and warren and his brother happened to be in the band. there is nothing even remotely similar between elvis hitler and hnia. for what they are, the first two albums, disgraceland and hillbilly are equally good bratty punkabilly albums.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 27 September 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember the name well enough, but never picked up on the HNIA connection, not being much of a fan. Only thing I have is a track on the Beautiful Happiness compilation ('Ghouls' - "they're comin for ya!") that was put together by someone from the Barracudas and which I suspect you might be able to pick up nice and cheap somewhere. Hey, it's also got fine stuff on it by Halo of Flies, Drunks With Guns, Art Phag, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Live Skull, Expando Brain, the only Naked Raygun song you really need ('Vanilla Blue') and a fine rendition of the Bastards' heartrending paean for the youth of yesteryear, 'Shit For Brains'.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask my sister.

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I FOUND OUT I'D LOST THAT BEAUTIFUL HAPPINESS COMP AT THE WEEKEND! WHO THE FUCK WOULD I HAVE LENT IT TO? NO-ONE. I'M SO ANGRY :(((((

(the best song on it is by Stikky, actually)

― DJ Mencap0))), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yesterday was the Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco's (and the world's) biggest leather daddy fair. i went to a bbq around the corner from all the happenings and a guy was wearing an Elvis Hitler shirt.

the end

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

real recent story in the Metrotimes on them...

http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=6673

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Elvis Hitler live once, billed between the Dwarves and Fear (this was in about 1990, and some of the original players from The Record were still in Fear; Lee hadn't replaced them all with cheap Mexican labor yet). They were okay. Disgraceland had one decent track on it - "Green Haze," a setting of the lyrics to the Green Acres theme song to the riff from "Purple Haze." The rest was routine hostile psychobilly, and the Meteors were way better at that.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Please note that I wrote that post before clicking the link to the Metro Times story.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Disgraceland had one decent track on it - "Green Haze," a setting of the lyrics to the Green Acres theme song to the riff from "Purple Haze."

i think disgraceland had more than that going for it. but note, as the metrotimes story sort of hints at without actually saying, "green haze" was a completely stolen idea. not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that. but it's not necessarily right either.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a de facto Elvis Hitler tribute band in the Lehigh Valley called The Big Runts. The Runts played "Green Haze" and "Crush Kill Destroy" among others. They took Elvis Hitler was too seriously and were probably responsible for the sales of all that band's records in that corner of Pennsy. It was purely by accident that they managed to stay out of jail or not kill someone while drunk driving. EH were custom made for the Soupy Sales show but came along way too late. It had been cancelled for about two decades.

Who'd pay $50 for a copy of one of their records?

― George Smith, Monday, 27 September 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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