Big Daddy Roth Month: The Orbitron-- Lost and Found!

Note the tricolor headlight array, mimicking the dot pattern on a color television screen. 

   The Orbitron was always a favorite of mine among Big Daddy's cars, but I'm apparently in the minority. There was never a model kit, slot car, or Hot Wheel, either in 1965 or since, and unlike the Outlaw and the Mysterion, it didn't even get its own Car Craft cover, as you can see.

Only approximately 1/12 of the cover? An insult!

 It had a short life on the car show circuit, and Ed sold it to Darryl Starbird in 1967 for $750. He sold it it to someone in Texas shortly thereafter, and it was lost to history for decades (one story holds that around 1973 it was in the hands of a teen-ager who actually drove it to school!). In recent years, it was tracked down in Ciudad Juarez, and it's since been restored to its original glory. Read the story here, and for more photos, click here.

This fellow is no relation, but he's also cool. Learn more about him here.

Total Destruction To Your Mind

Thanks to David Marchese for sending us this great interview he did for Spin Magazine!

Check it out here.

Mr. Gasser & The Weirdos

Hot Rod Hootenany was released in 1963 with cover art by Big Daddy aka Mr. Gasser.  Musicians included Ichiban All-Stars Gary Usher, Glen Campbell, Jerry Cole and Darlene Love, just to name a few!  Long out of print, the geniuses over at Sundazed Records reissued a limited edition run for Black Friday.

Cookout Time

This one is dedicated to all you Rat Finks who've already pledged out there, along with Ron Haydock & the Boppers, V-neck sweaters, beehives, Liz Renay, gingham and monster masks.  Thanks!

Happy Birthday Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

1932-2001

The Weird-Ohs - Francis The Foul

Hot Rod High

BIG DADDY!

March Is Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Month

Coming soon

"Big Daddy"!

Do the "Weirdo Wiggle" with Ed "Big Daddy" Roth!

Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos - WEIRDO WIGGLE

Fare thee well, Jack Dupree!

Thanks for checking out CDJ month, everybody!

Jack Dupree and King Curtis live on stage in Montreux

As CJD month winds down, here's a concert appearance from Montreux, Switzerland in 1971.  Check out Aretha in the audience in the red dress!

This was released on LP as well, but it's really the sort of thing YouTube was invented for.

Green Mosquito