Cheech & Chong
  

At their peak in the 1970s, Cheech & Chong represented the mainstream embodiment of the attitudes 
and lifestyles of the underground drug culture. Much as W.C. Fields shot to fame by making alcohol 
the focus of his act, the duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong emerged from a cloud of pot smoke, 
simultaneously championing and lampooning the stoner community that became the team's most 
ardent supporters; although derided by critics and dismissed by the general populace, the team's 
stature as counterculture heroes was unquestioned, and for both aging hippies and dazed-and-confused teens, 
their comedy defined an era.

The team began to take shape in the late '60s when, after entering show business as a guitarist in a rock band, 
Chong established City Works, a wild improvisational troupe later joined by Richard "Cheech" Marin. 
When City Works dissolved, Cheech & Chong continued as a duo, formulating a musical comedy act. 
The music proved short-lived, however, when audiences began reacting favorably to the team's spacy 
pothead raps; after establishing their comic persona, the duo rarely deviated from the course -- 
for record after record and film after film, they remained blissed-out stoners, their humor locked in 
the druggy stasis of the doper mentality.

Cheech & Chong debuted in 1971 with an eponymous LP featuring studio sketches like "Waiting for Dave" 
(a circular routine owing a debt to Bob & Ray), "Cruisin' with Pedro" (about drug-deal paranoia), 
and "Trippin' in Court." The album was a tremendous success, and its 1972 follow-up, Big Bambu 
(a record packaged in a giant rolling paper), reached the number two spot on the Billboard charts. 
The following year's Grammy-winning Los Cochinos duplicated the feat, and included the novelty hit "Basketball Jones."

After 1974's Wedding Album (which featured the hit "Earache My Eye") and 1976's Sleeping Beauty, 
Cheech & Chong had built enough of a cult following to make the leap into films. Their 1978 feature 
debut, Up in Smoke, established the formula followed by all of their subsequent movies, quickly 
dispensing with plot in order to focus on surreal narrative detours and long meandering conversations 
between the principal characters. With the exception of 1980's Let's Make a New Dope Deal, the duo 
spent the next several years working exclusively on films, releasing a rapid-fire string of comedies like 
1980's Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, 1981's Nice Dreams, and 1983's Still Smokin.

As the hedonism of the 1970s gave way to the "just say no" conservatism of the Reagan era, Cheech & Chong 
found little response to their trademark brand of humor; after 1984's The Corsican Brothers, their film career 
ended, and in 1985 they returned to the recording studio for their swan song LP, Get Out of My Room. 
After dissolving their partnership, both spent the remainder of the decade appearing in low-budget films; 
by 1993, Marin even recorded a children's album, My Name Is Cheech, the School Bus Driver.

While Chong largely drifted into obscurity, Marin enjoyed a renaissance in the middle of the 1990s, 
appearing in the Robert Rodriguez films Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn; a prominent supporting 
role in Ron Shelton's romantic comedy Tin Cup led to a co-starring role opposite Don Johnson in the 
CBS detective series Nash Bridges. In 1997 Chong made a guest appearance on the program, 
marking the duo's first public reunion in a number of years.
This biography was provided by the artist or their representative.




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01 Cheech & Chong Live, Tuscon, AZ 1
1-01 Dave
1-02 Blind Melon Chitlin'  
1-03 Wink Dinkerson  
1-04 Acapulco Gold Filters 
1-05 Cruisin' With Pedro De Pacas
1-06 Trippin' In Court  
1-07 Santa Claus And His Old Lady
1-08 Sister Mary Elephant  
1-09 Ralph And Herbie
1-10 The Continuing Adventures Of Pe
1-11 Let's Make A Dope Deal
1-12 Sargent Stadanko
1-13 The Strawberry Revival Festival
1-14 Evelyn Woodhead Speed Reading C
1-15 White World Of Sports 
1-16 Basketball Jones w_Tyrone Shoel
1-17 Pedro And Man At The Drive-In  
2-01 Earache My Eye - Featuring Alic
2-02 Championship Wrestling
2-03 Wake Up America 
2-04 Black Lassie (A Great American 
2-05 Wake Up America (Conclusion)
2-06 (How I Spent My Summer Vacation
2-07 The Big Sniff - Starring Ralph 
2-08 Pedro's Request 
2-09 Framed 
2-10 Up In Smoke  
2-11 Bloat On - Featuring The Bloate
2-12 Let's Make A Dope Deal
2-13 Acupuncture  
2-14 Moe Money _ Rudolph The Red Nos
2-15 Born In East L.A.  
2-16 Up In Smoke Commercial (L) - Fe
2-17 Up In Smoke Commercial (Ll) - F
2-18 Academy Of Music - NY Concert C
2-19 Old Man In The Park (Live)  
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 01 - Blind Melon Chitlin' 
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 02 - Wink Dinkerson 
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 03 - Acapulco Gold Filters
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 04 - Vietnam  
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 05 - Trippin' In Court 
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 06 - Dave  
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 07 - Emergency Ward 
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 08 - Welcome To Mexico 
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 09 - The Pope Live At The Vatican  
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 10 - Cruisin With Pedro De Pacas
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong - 11 - Waiting For Dave  
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 01 - Born In East L.A.
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 02 - Dorm Radio I  
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 03 - I'm Not Home Right Now 
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 04 - Sushi Bar  
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 05 - Dorm Radio II 
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 06 - Love Is Strange  
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 07 - Dorm Radio III
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 08 - I'm A (Modern) Man  
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 09 - The Music Lesson 
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 10 - The Stupid Early Show  
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 11 - Warren Beatty 
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 12 - Juan Coyote
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 13 - Radio News 
Cheech & Chong - Get Out Of My Room - 14 - Get Out Of My Room  
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 01 Queer Wars
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 02 Disco Disco  
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 03 China Town
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 04 Rainbow Bar & Grill
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 05 Bloat On  
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 06 Dork Radio
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 07 Let's Make A New Dope Deal  
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 08 Acupuncture  
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 09 Moe Money 
Cheech & Chong - Let's Make A New Dope Deal 10 17th American Tour 
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 01 - The Big Sniff (featuring Ralph & Herbie) 
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 02 - The Adventures of Red & Roy (The Last Round-up)
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 03 - T.W.A.T. (Tactical Women's Alert Team)
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 04 - Pedro's Request  
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 05 - Framed  
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 06 - Jimmy
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 07 - Uncle Pervy
Cheech & Chong - Sleeping Beauty - 08 - Sleeping Beauty  
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 01 - The Finkelstein Shit Kid - Mr. Stoner  
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 02 - Up In Smoke - Cheech & Chong  
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 03 - Low Rider - War
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 04 - 1st Gear, 2nd Gear - Pedro and Man  
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 05 - Framed - Cheech & Chong 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 06 - Searchin' - Search Boys 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 07 - The Ajax Lady - Man and The Ajax Lady  
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 08 - Strawberry's - Yesca 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 09 - Here Come The Mounties To The Rescue - Yesca 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 10 - Sometimes When You Gotta Go, You Can't - Pedro & Sgt. ... 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 11 - Lost Due To Incompetence (Theme For A Big Green Van) -... 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 12 - Lard Ass - Pedro, Man, Officer Clyder & Sgt. Stedenko 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 13 - Rock Fight - Cheech & Chong
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 14 - I Didn't Know Your Name Was Alex - Man, Jade East, Ped... 
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 15 - Earache My Eye - Alice Bowie  
Cheech & Chong - Up In Smoke [OST] - 16 - Up In Smoke Reprise - Cheech & Chong
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 01 Dave
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 02 Earache My Eye  
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 03 Let's Make A Dope Deal
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 04 Basketball Jones
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 05 Blind Melon Chitlin'  
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 06 Sister Mary Elephant  
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 07 Sargent Stadanko
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 08 Dave cont.
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 09 Cruisin' With Pedro De Pacas And  
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 10 The Continuing Adventures Of Pedr 
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 11 Pedro And Man At The Drive-In  
Cheech & Chong Greatest Hits 12 Trippin' In Court  


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