CD reissue. The Holy Modal Rounders were an American folk music group. It originally was the duo of Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber, who began performing together on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early 1960s. They had a unique blend of folk music revival and psychedelia that gave them a cult-like following from the late 1960's into the 1970's. The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders was originally released on Elektra Records in 1968.