THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE ALL

    BIOGRAPHY

    • COLIN ALLCARS vocals keyboards guitars drums
    • GENE POOL vocals keyboards guitars drums
    • JIMMY DELOCKE vocals keyboards guitars drums
    • KID WILLY vocals keyboards guitars drums
    • ED TWIDDLE maracas






    JANUARY 4 1963:

    Colin and Gene meet for coffee at LA's "FOLK SHACK" club, then a mecca for young struggling artists (now a mecca for young struggling alcoholics). They decide to form a folk band called The New Christie Limestone Trio. They play to packed houses one night.

    JANUARY 18 1963:

    Colin realizes that having two guys in a band with "Trio" in the name is a stupid oversight, so they add Jimmy DeLocke and a distant cousin named Ed Twiddle to the band.

    FEBRUARY 2 1963:

    The band realize they've somehow goofed again because now thereÕs FOUR guys in a "trio", so they change their name to "THE ALL". This proves to be the magic formula, and they play to another packed house (for spare change outside a club filled with SRO customers there to see the Smothers Brothers).

    1964:

    One night at THE ANGRY CARROT in Burbank, CA, the band's roadies don't show up with their acoustic guitar and maraca, and they borrow another bands electric guitars and drums. Manager Deniro Immediato happens to be in the audience, and in a bizarre twist of fate, thinking they are the other band, impulsively signs them to a one week contract. Ed Twiddle leaves the band over a dispute about a song purportedly titled "Can I Put My Butt Out In Your Ashtray Of Love, Baby" and they replace him with Kid Willy, who they had met early in the year when he was a janitor at one of the clubs. Ed Twiddle gets Kid's janitorial job and immediately doubles his previous income. Soon they are recording their first hundred-selling record "It's The All!". All-Mania has truly begun.

    1965:

    At this point, Colin stops touring and leaves it to the others to do live performances. The band ask Ed Twiddle to join again, and since Ed's janitorial endeavors have become, oddly enough, artistically unsatisfying to him, he rejoins 15 minutes later. Colin concentrates on searching for the ultimate sound. The next lp "Wall Of All" hints at things to come, and is actually showing signs of musicianship. The critics rave! (One a bit more than the others, and has to be institutionalized.)

    LATE 1965:

    Drugs like Kaopectate and Preparation-H begin to play an important part in the bands lives. They drop the previous vices of choice: Nestles Quick and Fizzies. Soon silly mistakes are being made. "Psyilly Mistakes" is released to hoopla and kudos. Unfortunately, it should have been released to the public instead, and the album's sales are slightly disappointing topping off at 6 copies. Still, many blatantly inferior imitator bands such as The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and The Byrds begin ripping of THE ALL's new sounds. Colin vows the next lp will be their ulimate masterpiece. More of everything is sent for.

    AUGUST 2, 1966:

    Recording begins on the new record, tentatively titled "Astral Minstrels". The sessions last one year, with the first session alone lasting 2 weeks while the band discuss what color the room should be. More Liquid Prell is ingested. The band decides to elongate their name to THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE ALL, to reflect the bands growing maturity and intoxication. Unfortunately, the public is growing restless and disinterested, and being weary of all the time it's taken for the album to be finished, they forget the band entirely and on the eve of the lp's release, now called "Greetings From Planet Love", the band cannot even get their own record label, SwindleBeat Records, to return their calls. What they hadn't realized was that the company had closed 6 months earlier due to a bizarre financial fiasco involving Monopoly money. Colin, in an extreme state of agitation, burns all the master tapes of the album and quits show-biz forever. The remaining band members all disburse, leaving only Ed Twiddle, who goes on to record a solo LP titled "All By Myself", which doesn't sell any copies at all, due to the wearying nature of the album, which consists of 3 twenty minute maraca solos.

    EPILOGUE-

    AUGUST 2 1993:

    In an intense psychological breakthrough at the Betty Ford Center, Colin realizes that he never destroyed the masters of "Greetings From Planet Love" at all, and it was all an hallucination of his, and further, it is discovered that another 2 lps were made, "Mind Munchies" and "All Freaked Out", but the band was so hopped up on Alka Seltzer they weren't even conscious of recording them. The sole surviving members of THE ALL, Colin and Gene, approach famed record producer Andre D'or and ask that he over-see a complete digital restoration of the original "Greetings.." 25 years later. A year later, after Mr. DÕor finishes laughing, he reluctantly agrees, and desperately needing money, he agrees. The rest is histrionics.

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