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"One-man band"? Er, no. This gloriously clumsy deluge of overdubbed instruments was recorded in the cloistered bungalow of one Robert Zaprian Tchomoneff Vidoloff – an outsider renaissance man. Known -- or perhaps widely unknown -- as "Bob Vido," this eccentric immigrant might not have achieved fame during his lifetime, but it wasn't because he lacked ambition and creative impulses. He seethed with creativity -- artistic, literary, and musical.

With its glued-on postcards of original artwork, his homemade LP "One Man Band Bob Vido" is an exuberant yawp by a 60-year-old crackpot. The cover is slathered with paintings of UFO's and extraterrestrial dreamscapes, a photo and some strange writing that references his comic "The World Beyond" and his triumphantly strange book "Rhizology."

Emigrating from Bulgaria in the 1920s, Vido settled in a rancid section of Hollywood after WWII and began to paint, write and compose h...