Consumer Guide Album

George Gerdes: Son of Obituary [United Artists, 1972]
Gerdes has a weakness for the kind of high extruded wordplay that only the stoned survive, and he uses the word "existential" in two different songs. Of course, one time he's jesting, as is his wont; quite frequently these songs fall somewhere between the funny, the acerbic, and the wacked out, which ain't a bad place to be. But too often the joke--like the voice--wears thin. B