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Several more guesses to our trivia question -all very savvy guesses but not the answer- keep rolling in! So, further hints via process of elimination: neither Lou Thesz, Strangler Lewis or Freddie Blassie were the subjects of a Tijuana Bible! HOWEVER— the guesses are getting warmer!

Again, the question is: Which pro wrestler (with a slightly altered name for the comic) was the subject of a Tijuana Bible? For those of you unfamiliar with Tijuana Bibles, these were a series of pornographic comic books printed from the 1920s through the 1960s. First person to e-mail us the answer correctly gets the funky loot! You can e-mail your answers to Lyger@aol.com and slamminstan@hotmail.com Mail away, Comrades!

The Beau Brummelstones!

Yes, it has been ages since I’ve posted my running playlists, but I find it must-post material after having a thoroughly wicked two hours run through the streets and bridle trails of Fullerton, followed by a wonderful evening with my gal Elena!  IPod strapped to my arm, I enjoyed a plethora of great tunes, tunes that I must wave at the diabolical music-wrecker Dr. Lucha Steve Sims! He may dream that he will wrest buoyant music from my device and replace them with nightmarish Top 40 hits. He better employ the assistance of Físico Nuclear from his caverns beneath the skeletal structure of the building formerly known as The Allen Hotel, cuz he’s gonna need it!

My jaunts throughout the regions surrounding the mystical Laguna Lake are lengthy enough that I cannot recall every tune that spun the mp3 rack; this is my best recollection!

1. I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time - The Third Bardo : My compadre Alfredo Esparza turned me onto this tune during an episode of Slammin’ Stan, and I can’t thank him enough. The Third Bardo was a short lived psychedelic garage band during the 1960s. They released only six tunes, but they are six great tunes, with “I’m Five Years Ahead of My Time” ruling the roost. Bitchin’ sound, bitchin’ lyrics, bitchin’ vocals. Bitchin’ = 5 STARS in my book, so enjoy this bitchin’ song!

2. Kon-Tiki - The Shadows : A bit of Hawaiiana-Exotica from The Shadows!

RAY DORSET

3. Movin’ On - Mungo Jerry : Best known for their hit “In The Summertime,” Mungo Jerry is one of the greatest rock groups ever known to this universe. This is sheer good-time trickster music, as if you took the upbeat spirit of John Philip Sousa, threw in a dash of Charlie Chaplin, and baked it into a rock & roll group. Songs about men chasing and outsmarting women, songs about women chasing and outsmarting men, songs about falling head-over-heels for your gal, Mungo Jerry is my fave rock band, along with The Ramones. The opening vocals in this particular song sound so much like Adam Sandler at his silliest, I almost wonder if Mr. Sandler actually heard this tune and drew a little inspiration from the voice of Ray Dorset!

4. I’m Against It - Groucho Marx : Straight from the movie “Horesfeathers!” “No matter what it is /or who commenced it/ I’m against it!”

5. Carbona Not Glue - The Ramones : It’s TV’s fault I am this way/ Mom & Pop want to put me away/ from the early morning movie to The Late Late Show/ After it’s over/ Nowhere to go!

6. Cara Mia - Baccara : No, not the same “Cara Mia” made famous by Jay & The Americans - or later by Nikolai Volkoff - but a thoroughly different song by the 1970s campier-than-campy disco group Baccara, consisting of Maria Mendiola and Mayte Mateos. At first sight, I found Maria Mendiola to be cute, but her playful antics in the above performance spell s-e-x-y, and I fell for her big-time! Adorable! This was once used as entrance music for Lucky Pierre several years ago, so it holds extra meaning in 2010.

7. Johnny B. Goode - Next to “Living In The USA,” this is my fave Chuck Berry! One prime rule on my iPod shuffle… never skip past a Chuck Berry tune!

8. Maggie - Mungo Jerry : She’s got long legs/she’s got big eyes/ she wears skirts that show her thighs!

9. The Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In - HAiR: The Original Broadway Cast: Singing our space songs/on a spider-web sitar/ life is around you and in you

10. I Married The Bootlegger’s Daughter - Frank Crumit : Yup, back in the days when the government tried to put a lid on liquor… boy, did that go over well or what? Now, if we could just get the cannabis legalized, produce some tax $$$ on its sales….. c’mon! Marijuana legalization will be on the California ballot this November, let’s get this thing rolling!

11. Zion Train - Bob Marley and The Wailers : This is seriously one of the most intoxicating tunes you will ever hear by Bob Marley! Calling people to the Rasta wing of Zion, this song always kicks me into ultra-gear when I run (even though I am a SoCal Buddhist). This song is on the album “Uprising.” Even if you are not a reggae or Bob Marley fan, this CD is a MUST in ANYBODY’s collection. It also includes great tunes like “Coming In From The Cold,” “Bad Card,” “Work,” and “Redemption Song.”

12. HAiR - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack : The motion picture version of HAiR is a funny thing; it was well cast, beautifully shot, and the Twyla Tharp dance numbers alone make HAiR worth watching repeatedly. That said, the dialogue was terrible, they should have never changed the plot of the original play, and their take on “Good Morning Starshine” blew billy-goats… not just any billy-goats, it blew all three bill-goats gruff AND the troll under the bridge! But like I said, Twyla Tharp’s choreography RULED this fucking movie! I’m telling you the truth!

13. Always - Erasure : Beautifully heartbreaking song, no matter how many times I hear it.

14. Noche de Estrellas - Ráfaga : My search for all things “Titanes en el Ring” lead me to the music of Charly Garcia, whose cameo in a film lead me to view “Un Noche Con Sabrina Love,” and a cameo by the pretty-boy cumbia group Ráfaga lead me to their way-cool music! Three degrees of Martín Karadagián!

15. Jumping At Johnny’s Wake - Teddy and Darrel: Jumping At Johnny’s Wake/ Light your candle with a shake/ neat, clean, strut this scene/ Jumping at Johnny’s Wake!

16. I Wanna Be Your Dog - Iggy Pop: There is nothing like that phase of a run (I believe this hit a little after the one-hour mark) when you feel worn, need a second win, and receive it. Usually it’s in the form of an upbeat tune, but something about Iggy Pop crooning about longing to be somebody’s dog (literally, not some metaphorical silliness) makes me kick myself in the ass and drive myself another gear.

17. Brand New Car - Mungo Jerry: Damn, three Mungo Jerry’s in one run! Too hep!

18. So Alive - Love and Rockets : Don’t know what color your eyes are, Baby, but you’re hair is long and brown/ your legs are strong, and you’re so so long/ and you don’t come from this town/ my head is full of magic, baby/ and I can share this with you: I feel I’m on top again, baby, that’s got everything to do with you!

19. Killing Me Softly - Roberta Flack: I heard this song for the first time on the radio one evening when I was thirteen, and Roberta Flack’s vocals gave me wonderful chills and goosebumps. This song was based on a poem by Lori Lieberman. Who was the young boy who was killing her softly with his songs? It was Don McLean.

20. Think - Aretha Franklin: My bro-in-law Reverend Ripper says this number was the best thing about the 1980 mega blockbuster flick “The Blues Brothers.” He is damn right on the money!

Beau Brummelstones “Laugh Laugh” - The best video clips are right here

21. Laugh, Laugh - Beau Brummels: Yes, I found footage of The Beau Brummels performing this tune on the TV show “Shindig,” but that’s not nearly as cool as this performance by The Beau Brummelstones on The Flintstones, rockin’ out before a smitten Betty & Wilma!

22. Gangsters - The Specials : The Ska legend’s finest tune as performed on SNL in 1980, introduced by Strother Martin!

23. Road Block - Big Brother and The Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin: Live piece by the group that helped launch Janis Joplin’s career. Many people say that Big Brother and The Holding Company had no talent, that it was all Janis Joplin. RUBBISH, I SAY! True, they lost a little something when Janis left the group to strike out on their own, by Big Brother had a notoriously raw, grinding mesh of garage, folk, and psychedelia that was a glorious sound that was all their own. And despite the emotional roadblocks emphasized in this tune, this song was anything but a roadblock for Vandal Drummond last night, This was the last tune on my playlist that provided a steady cooling-down beat as I jogged toward my car!

¡Cavernario!

Only a few have ventured into the second Slammin’ Stan trivia question. None have answered correctly, but I’ve enjoyed each guess people have thrown forward!

The question is: Which pro wrestler (with a slightly altered name for the comic) was the subject of a Tijuana Bible? For those of you unfamiliar with Tijuana Bibles, these were a series of pornographic comic books printed from the 1920s through the 1960s. First person to e-mail us the answer correctly gets the funky loot! You can e-mail your answers to Lyger@aol.com and slamminstan@hotmail.com Mail away, Comrades!

We’ll drop a few more hints, the first clue being the guesses we have received thus far, which are:

Cavernario Galindo (still my favorite guess!)
Chris Cruise
Gorgeous George
Black Shadow
El Santo

Seeing that three-fifths of the guesses target Mexican Lucha Libre superstars, the second hint is: this professional wrestler was not a Lucha Libre star, but a star in the United States!

And yes, I will be throwing more prizes into the loot!

Check it out! Click right here for Slammin’ Stan #30, which we created this past Thursday night! Join Alfredo Esparza, The Bixie Demon, Shootfighter Dan and Vandal Drummond as we cover a plethora of subjects included the bliss we receive through enjoying wrestling programs through second hand sources, Vandal describes enlightenment via forgetting the major wrestling events of the past few weeks, and we the 1973 Turkish B-Movie “3 Dev Adam” (which features Turkish versions of El Santo, Captain America and Spiderman). WE mull over two different people who have portrayed Dan Farren on tv in the 1990s! We also talk about Turkey’s movie super-villain Kilink, who is a trippy precursor to La Parka!  We also discuss “La Hacha Diabolica” and “Santo and The Treasure of Dracula,” arguably two of El Santo’s finest films. Farren & Drummond also reminisce about their friend Stephan “Anarchy” DeLeon, who we lost six years ago. Stephan was great in so many ways, and we hope you enjoy our tribute to him.

We also repeat last episode’s trivia question, which has been attempted but not correctly answered! I am actually shocked that somebody correctly nailed our first trivia question in quicker fashion than this one. That said, I am upping the loot in the prize: in addition to the previously described DVDs/CDs of The Foul King, Cactus Jack, Five Deadly Venoms, Mad Dog & LA, and Frida’s “Something’s Going On,”  I’m throwing in new copies of Hong Kong flick “The Mission” and Johnny Legend’s “TV Mania/Commercial Mania.” I’m also throwing in a few surprises for the cat who cracks this quiz!

The question is: Which pro wrestler (with a slightly altered name for the comic) was the subject of a Tijuana Bible? For those of you unfamiliar with Tijuana Bibles, these were a series of pornographic comic books printed from the 1920s through the 1960s. We’ve included a bunch of hints in this episode of Slammin’ Stan, so listen away! First person to e-mail us the answer correctly gets the funky loot! You can e-mail your answers to Lyger@aol.com and slamminstan@hotmail.com Mail away, Comrades!

For those of you who have yet to hear Slammin’ Stan Podcast #29 (available by clicking here), we have our second trivia contest. First person to correctly answer the question receives the following: Previously viewed copies (but in great condition— yeah, sorry folks, but unless we become fabulously wealthy, these will usually be paupers’ quizzes!) of the followingDVDs : ECW Best of Cactus Jack, the Korean wrestling film “Foul King,” the classic Kung-Fu flick “Five Deadly Venoms.”  Also included will be previously heard CDs of the Frida album “Something’s Going On,” and “Acid Rain,” the album by “Maddog & L.A.,” better known as former indie wrestler Maddog Steele Graham.

The question is: Which pro wrestler (with a slightly altered name for the comic) was the subject of a Tijuana Bible? For those of you unfamiliar with Tijuana Bibles, these were a series of pornographic comic books printed from the 1920s through the 1960s. The only hint we’re dropping (thus far) is that this was a wrestler active pre-1960s. So— plug away (pun intended) for the answer. You can e-mail your answers to Lyger@aol.com and slamminstan@hotmail.com Mail away, Comrades!

Huge thanks to The Bixie Demon for coming up with this question!

First person to e-mail the answer correctly wins the loot!

Answer will be given on the next edition of Slammin’ Stan, which will air on Thursday, April 8.

The (now bi-weekly) Slammin’ Stan podcast is up and ready for happenin’ ears! The legendary Socal Hepcat Shootfighter Dan Farren joins us for episode #29 as we cover a wicked-cool array of topics include CMLL wrestling legend Felino and the loss of his awesome mask, we salute the legacy of Baron Mikel Scicluna, the disturbingly gigged foreheads of folks like Villano III and Perro Aguayo, Story Salon, “Mad Dog and L.A.” AKA Crazy Charlie Reid AKA Tom Hankins (first guy ever to teach Vandal to bump in Strongbow Stadium!) our original rockabilly bastard Johnny Legend, La Parka vs L.A. Park, El Físico Nuclear on Facebook (soon!), our trivia contest, and so much more!

IT’S RIGHT HERE! CLICK! ENJOY! CLICK!  ENJOY! TOTALLY MOTHERFUCKIN’ ENJOY! IT’S BITCHIN’!

Dan Farren (pictured above, ready for Vandál Drummónd to submit to El Físico Nuclear's rendition of La Cavernaria) joins us on Slammin' Stan #29!

The Slammin’ Stan podcast will return this Thursday night here at Blogtalk Radio. We’ll return with chat about Felino unmasked, throw out another trivia question, and more Jon Strongman Haiku.

You can e-mail your answers to Lyger@aol.com Mail away, Comrades!