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Date     [ 07-07-1999        ] ░▒▓▓▒░ [ 11 (37:47 min)    ]   Songs

At their peak in the 1970s, Cheech and Chong represented the
mainstream embodiment of the attitudes and lifestyles of the
underground drug culture. Much as W.C. Fields shot to fame
by making alcohol the focus of his act, the duo of Cheech
Marin and Tommy Chong emerged from a cloud of pot smoke,
simultaneously championing and lampooning the stoner
community which became the team's most ardent supporters;
although derided by critics and dismissed by the general
populace, the team's stature as counterculture heroes was
unquestioned, and for both aging hippies and
dazed-and-confused teens, their comedy defined an era.

The team began to take shape in the late 1960s when, after
entering show business as a guitarist in a rock band, Chong
established City Works, a wild improvisational troupe later
joined by Richard "Cheech" Marin. When City Works dissolved,
Cheech and Chong continued as a duo, formulating a musical
comedy act. The music proved short-lived, however, when
audiences began reacting favorably to the team's spacy
pothead raps; after establishing their comic persona, the
duo rarely deviated from the course -- for record after
record and film after film, they remained blissed-out
stoners, their humor locked in the druggy stasis of the
doper mentality.

Cheech and Chong debuted in 1971 with an eponymous LP
featuring studio sketches like "Waiting for Dave" (a
circular routine owing a debt to Bob and Ray), "Cruisin'
with Pedro" (about drug-deal paranoia) and "Trippin' in
Court." The album was a tremendous success, and its 1972
follow-up Big Bambu -- a record packaged in a giant rolling
paper -- reached the number two spot on the Billboard
charts. The following year's Grammy-winning Los Cochinos
duplicated the feat, and included the novelty hit
"Basketball Jones."

After 1974's Wedding Album (which featured the hit "Earache
My Eye") and 1976's Sleeping Beauty, Cheech and Chong had
built enough of a cult following to make the leap into
films. Their 1978 feature debut Up in Smoke established the
formula followed by all of their subsquent movies, quickly
dispensing with plot in order to focus on surreal narrative
detours and long, meandering conversations between the
principal characters. With the exception of 1980's Let's
Make a New Dope Deal, the duo spent the next several years
working exclusively on films, releasing a rapid-fire string
of comedies like 1980's Cheech and Chong's Next Movie,
1981's Nice Dreams and 1983's Still Smokin.

As the hedonism of the 1970s gave way to the "just say no"
conservatism of the Reagan era, Cheech and Chong found
little response to their trademark brand of humor; after
1984's The Corsican Brothers, their film career ended, and
in 1985 they returned to the recording studio for their swan
song LP, Get Out of My Room. After dissolving their
partnership, both spent the remainder of the decade
appearing in low-budget films; by 1993, Marin even recorded
a children's album, My Name Is Cheech, The School Bus
Driver.

While Chong largely drifted into obscurity, Marin enjoyed a
renaissance in the middle of the 1990s, appearing in the
Robert Rodriguez films Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn; a
prominent supporting role in Ron Shelton's romantic comedy
Tin Cup led to a co-starring role opposite Don Johnson in
the CBS detective series Nash Bridges. In 1997 Chong made a
guest appearance on the program, marking the duo's first
public reunion in a number of years. -- Jason Ankeny, AMG

01 - Blind Melon Chitlin                                  (04:20)
02 - Wink Dinkerson                                       (02:58)
03 - Acapulco Gold Filters                                (02:49)
04 - Vietnam                                              (03:07)
05 - Trippin In Court                                     (05:55)
06 - Dave                                                 (01:23)
07 - Emergency Ward                                       (03:33)
08 - Welcome To Mexico                                    (02:48)
09 - The Pope Live At The Vatican                         (01:55)
10 - Cruisin With Pedro De Pacas                          (03:55)
11 - Waiting For Dave                                     (05:04)

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