1987 ELVIS HITLER Disgraceland FIRST ISSUE Handmade Cover

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Disgraceland
Elvis Hitler

First Issue

Collectible first issue of 1980's Hellbilly/Psychobilly band Elvis Hitler's debut album, Disgraceland. Scarce. Includes original handmade cardboard cover, record album, sleeve, laid-in insert with song titles and production details and laid-in concert poster for March 19, 1987 performance at Detroit's Token Lounge. Other bands include Akwa Batz and the Orange Roughies.

CONDITION: Very good. 100% play tested. No skips, crackles or pops. Very slight cupping to record, not affecting play. Cardboard cover lacks second mounted title pictorial on verso.

ELVIS HITLER: Elvis Hitler is a psychobilly/hellbilly band from Detroit, Michigan. The band was named after the moniker of their lead singer, Jim Leedy.

The band was active in the late Eighties and early Nineties, and has recently re-formed (2005). It consists of singer Jim Leedy (a.k.a. "Elvis Hitler"), guitarist John Defever, bassist Warren Defever, and drummer Damian Lang. Their irreverent mix of rockabilly and lowbrow humor led to them having a cult following in their day, though they never had commercial success. Their first album, Disgraceland, was initially released on Wang Head records in 1987 (WH004) and early copies came in a handmade sleeve formed from corrugated cardboard with a black-and-white sheet pasted to the front and back. The band managed to put out three CDs on Restless Records. They then disappeared from the public spotlight for the first time. Warren Defever would go on to front the dramatically-different sounding His Name Is Alive, and work as a record producer for underground bands.

In 1998, however, Elvis Hitler reunited as a 3-piece band with former Mutants guitarist Pasadena now on bass and occasional guitar and his (at the time) 18-year-old son Jeff on drums, who would later go on to play with bands like One Hump Chump, Short Of 1st, The Weakend, and Deastro. This lineup continued to play until mid 2000. They once more reunited in 2003 at The Magic Stick club in Detroit with Warren Defever returning to the bass. They played one more concert at that club on September 4, 2004.

Their minor "hit" song "Green Haze" consisted of the lyrics from the successful TV-show Green Acres sung to the tune of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze."

Due to the resistance of having a band with the name Hitler in the title, regardless of its intent, the band released one album under the name "Splatter."

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