![]() (The release sold out within days, but many back-catalog titles are still available.) LPC preceded the Nineties prank-calling heyday of the Jerky Boys and the following decade’s Crank Yankers, and has also long outlived it by amassing a largely cult following with his self-released albums – around 14, not including various collections and related projects, all compiled in a comprehensive new box set, Official Compact Discography. LPC began making prank phone calls as a youth – in the Denver suburb of Littleton where he “got in a lot of trouble” – and released his first proper album documenting the experience in 1988. He pronounces it with the goofy flair heard in one of his famous bits, “Bruschotti,” and only then is it certain: The man sitting beside me is Longmont Potion Castle. When we pick up our menus, the first thing he spots is the bruschetta. But then again, it felt exactly right: completely weird and unexpected. It seemed like a strange choice, too corporate and suburban for such an edgy, shadowy figure. Once we adjourn to the rooftop patio of Lodo’s, the question of why he picked this spot comes up. A man in a green shirt, the color he told RS he would be wearing, lingered outside smoking a cigarette, looking like a fortysomething version of a kid who would be hanging out in front of a convenience store in the 1990s. But there we were a week later, in front of a cheesy, semi-chain sports bar in Westminster, Colorado. And meeting the underground prank-call legend in person seemed entirely out of the question. When Rolling Stone e-mailed the address on Longmont Potion Castle’s website, it wasn’t clear whether anyone would actually reply.
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