Freddie Gage - Drugs & Youth
Original release: Rainbow Records, circa 1971
Producer: no credit
Liner notes: Charles Massegee
Comments: Notorious
"turned-on" Texas preacher with a somewhat dubious reputation,
enforced no doubt by his pimp-like appearance which suggests you'd have to
take Christ the way he says or end up in the Galveston Bay with 2 bullets in
your head. In the presence of a vast congregation of Loozy-anna teens Gage
works up an acceptable fire & brimstone routine, which is mainly
tough-guy "I was there" anecdotes on kids gone under from junk
with a few words about Christianity thrown in almost as an afterthought. The
stories related are probably more or less true, and Gage's streetwise
demeanor has some credibility, although the occasional use of passé beatnik
slang from the 1950s must have had a few heads in presence snickering. Gage
warns us of dope, pushers and immoral hippies, all of which he apparently
perceives as equally evil.
Pretty entertaining LP but nothing exceptional by Bible Belt standards, and LSD is just one of several drugs on Gage's hit-list. Excellent front cover graphics are blatantly ripped off from this government pamphlet.
Gage had at least two more LPs; "Pulpit In The Shadows" and "All My Friends Are Dead".
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LamaSivartDoz 2003