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Cover of The Best of Longmont Potion Castle
Cover of The Best of Longmont Potion Castle
Longmont Potion Castle is the alias of a Colorado prank phone caller whose real name is unknown. He recorded a number of his crank calls and released them as albums between 1988 and 2005, distributed primarily by small underground and independent record labels.
Contents
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* 1 History
* 2 Discography
* 3 References
* 4 External links
[edit] History
The idea of Longmont Potion Castle was conceived in 1987. [1] LPC is known for using electronic devices such as echo delay and voice modulators to create Max Headroom-like effects during his prank phone calls.
Little is known about the person behind the Longmont Potion Castle, other than he is likely a white male who lived in the suburbs of Denver during the last 20 years of the 20th century and attended Columbine High School in the mid-1980s. [1] The person behind LPC is known by friends and "those in the know" as a good-natured, avid music fan who found his mark with his unique, oft-quoted prank calls. [1] He is also a vegetarian. [1]
His sense of humor is often off-color, and nonsensical in demeanor. His peculiar comic timing has led some to believe that LPC works strictly under the influence of heavy medication, or drug usage. In a 2006 interview, he confirmed this, stating that although he was not inebriated while recording the first few records, he eventually began smoking marijuana and later getting drunk before making phone calls. [1]
LPC often adopts nonsensical or silly monikers such as "Dirk Funk" and "Helium Ointment". Many of the recordings feature calls made to random households during which LPC is aggressive to an absurd degree to the person on the other end, threatening physical harm using unorthodox manners of speech ("The bringer of pain... to your face"). Recipients of these types of calls often match LPC's aggression with equal (although unintentional) absurdity. In fact, much of the humor of these recordings is derived from the naive reactions of those that are on the receiving end of the phone calls. Being a Colorado native, he often attacks such Denver locales as Twist & Shout and Radio Shack, but has also been to known to call famous people such as Sidney Poitier and GG Allin.
He says he has never been recognized in public, and in fact claims that he has only been caught in the act once -- during his first week of high school, calling his principal from a payphone outside his office as "Dick Smack". [1]
He used several different machines to record his calls, originally using his parents' answering machine (which beeped roughly every ten seconds). He later preferred to use the Duofone TAD-114, created by RadioShack. [1]
Longmont Potion Castle stated in a 2005 interview that it would be unlikely to see any new releases from him in the future.
[edit] Discography
Albums
* Longmont Potion Castle (1988)
* Longmont Potion Castle 2 (1992)
* Longmont Potion Castle 3 (1995)
* The Best of Longmont Potion Castle (1996)
* The Best of Longmont Potion Castle Volume 2 (1998)
* Longmont Potion Castle 4 (2001)
* Late-Eighties-Vein (2003)
* Longmont Potion Castle 5 (2005)
* Longbox Option Package Box Set (2006)
Singles and EPs
* Longmont Potion Castle/Hatebeak (2004)
Videos
* Live From Longmont Potion Castle
[edit] References
1.
a b c d e f g Amazing Webzine interview with Longmont Potion Castle
[edit] External links
* Official Longmont Potion Castle Website
* Mark Prindle's Full Catalog Review
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