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Original Sountrack/DON GERE 'Werewolves On Wheels' LP (UK, Finders Keepers, Catalogue #FKR048LP) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2011 vinyl edition of Finders Keepers label LP issue of previously unreleased original soundtrack by Don Gere for the 1971 cult Biker/Monster/Horror hybrid b-movie "Werewolves On Wheels."

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

B-movie junkies, gather round and prepare yourselves for what could only be described as a cinematic speedball. Take a combined hit of two of the most potent strains of toxic cinema, dress it up in ritualistic robes, and make it dance to the beat of a stoned, motoric, country commune soundtrack. Like an exploit-o double-bill where both films merge into a single feature, this directorial debut by an ex-Roger Corman protégé and future Russ Meyer art director (another heady cocktail) is the product of one writing duo's fleeting time in the driving seat as the moviedrome marathon approached its dwindling finish line. Werewolves On Wheels emerged in 1971 in a climate where the B-movie genre of the previous two decades began to make way for the early glimpses of imported slasher films and video nasties. Entirely out of popular context in 1971, the soundtrack music of Don Gere (Curt Boettcher, Kid Dynamite, Don & Stevie) would perhaps reveal him as the most versatile actor involved in the whole production. Until this point, Don Gere had been a pop folk songwriter and a country music devotee, but while riding with the werewolves, Don Gere became a disjointed psych rock stoner making ritualistic commune country with more coincidentally in common with Germany's emerging krautrock scene or the more localized stoner psych of Skip Spence (whose radically ahead of its time LP OAR (1969) was recognized by Columbia Records as their lowest selling record in the company's history). Imagine guitarist Sandy Bull jamming with Munich's Amon Düül or some Swedish prog outfits like Träd, Gräs Och Stenar or a sedated Kebnekaise. In comparison to the Curb Records/Davie Allan scores, for films like Wild Angels (1966), Devil's Angels (1967), Thunder Alley (1967), and Born Losers (1967) (often released on Curb's own Sidewalk or Tower Records), the new music made by Don Gere, only three years down the line, sounds like it's from an entirely different generation... "Pre-certified biker psych from the hillbilly Haxan. Amazing!" --Sean Canty (Demdike Stare)

- Don Gere's soundtrack for the 1971 B-movie, Werewolves On Wheels.
- Overqualified kraut, commune, country and mock-rock rituals for cinematic cycle-delic monster cocktail.
- Lycanthropic Z-Movie soundtrack by Don Gere (Curt Boettcher, Kid Dynamite, Don & Stevie) welding motoric redneck funk with broken Eastern promises.
- Amon Düül jamming with Sandy Bull, Träd, Gräs Och Stenar, or Skip Spence.
- Available for the first time on vinyl since the remaining copies were destroyed in the Sony warehouse fire during the 2011 London riots.
- "Pre-certified biker psych from the hillbilly Haxan. Amazing!" --Sean Canty (Demdike Stare)  

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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