The Music of Cheech & Chong: C or D, S & D...

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Basketball Jones (feat. George Harrison on Guitar), Earache My Eye, Born in East L.A....

Am I high, or was their music CLASSIC?!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

classic!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

"Earache My Eye" = total classic. Dunno about the other ones.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

"Basketball Jones" also classic, especially for the singalong coda.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

definitely CLASSIC

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

"Earache My Eye" totally rocks! "Alice Bowie", eh?

Ever seen Peter Sellers' "Being There"? There's a bit where's he's watching a TV which is playing a kind of animated video for "Basketball Jones". No idea where the hell THAT came from...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:36 (twenty years ago)

C & S: "santa claus and his old lady"

perennial fave on dr. demento's christmas funny five

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Classic, obviously, but you left out the Johnny Stash one, which was basically Johnny Cash doing "Shaft"! ("His daddy was a great big alley rat who could lick a dog twice his size..")

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

Also their guest appearance on *Court and Spark.*

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

heeey.. you scratched my record man

― meth lab for doug flutie (sanskrit), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

George Harrison was the guitarist on "Basketball Jones"?!??!?!?!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Dx2: "Sister Mary Elephant (Shadd-Upp!!!)," a lame joke that goes on WAY too long.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

Their version of "Framed" is pretty great, too.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

My old band used to play Up In Smoke on occasion. Great singalong.

― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Soundgarden played "Earache My Eye" as an encore on the Louder Than Love tour in LA circa 1990.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 March 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Scatterbrain used to cover it as well.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:31 (twenty years ago)

And Korn did it as a secret track on one of their records, i believe.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

And of course the Rollins Band did it as one of those Sub Pop 7"s.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Born in East LA is an obvious joke, but ultimately it works 'cause Cheech sings the LIVING SHIT out of it.

Tommy Chong was in at least one band with Jimi Hendrix.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

A friend has been looking for the "Basketball Jones" video for many years -- anyone know where to find it?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 23 March 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Also seek: The serious song that Tommy Chong co-wrote while with Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers, "Does Your Mama Know About Me?" Lovely.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

even that wicked road-music they play on Up In Smoke is good. That one with the muted electric guitar...

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

....The one that sounds like Santana??

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:10 (twenty years ago)

Dx2: "Sister Mary Elephant (Shadd-Upp!!!)," a lame joke that goes on WAY too long.

no way, it's hilarious! espec "THEN I WENT DOWNTOWN TO LOOK FOR A JOB."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 24 March 2006 08:40 (twenty years ago)

yeh the one that's like Santana, sort of a chugging guitar instrumental that comes in during the comedy chase scenes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I always wondered who was playing the guitar on that one. Very catchy actually, me and my brother always used to laugh at it.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 24 March 2006 10:29 (twenty years ago)

what was the mtv video with young girls in spandex ?

― retrogurl, Friday, 24 March 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

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