Blowfly, a bedazzled super villain who specializes in salaciously dirty rap parodies of contemporary songs, began his music career as Clarence Reid. Beneath the Luchador mask is a man who lived above ground as a prominent R&B songwriter in the '60s and '70s. However, as Blowfly he's operated permanently underground, appearing in a mask to protect his music career. His 1965 recording, Rap Dirty, is considered by some to be the first rap song.

In the way that "Weird Al" Yankovic is oddly obsessed with food, Blowfly seems to be obsessed with sex. For instance, we can take a look at the song that gave Blowfly his name: "Suck My Dick," a parody of "Do the Twist." When Reid's grandmother heard him singing that, she called him "nastier than a blowfly." And Arthur Brown still lights his head on fire.

So what we have here is a 65-year-old rapping super villain who sings songs such as "Should I ‘F' This Big Fat Ho" - a parody of you know what - and whose live shows are fairly infamous. Reason enough to check him out when he comes through Tacoma and Olympia. But guess what? There's more! Ensuring that these shows will quite possibly be the strangest you see all year will be the opening band: Girl Trouble.

[The Brotherhood Lounge, Sunday, March 28, 9 p.m., price TBA, 119 Capitol Way, Olympia, 360.352.4153]