Maxwell's: Just had to defend my description of The dBs as part of "The Hoboken Scene" of the early 80s to my co-editor. "But aren't they from North Carolina? I associate them with North Carolina."
Yeah, but they didn't form The dBs until they all moved to NYC. Did you know Stamey toured with Alex Chilton for a year? That must've been that stretch where Alex went to the UK and had the Softboys back him. Also when Richard Lloyd played some live dates with him, and when The dBs backed Kimberly Rew.
Among my pop rarities, I've got both The Sneakers CD (pre-dBs band with Mitch Easter and Chris Stamey) and The Bible of Bop (Kimberly Rew backed by Softboys, dBs and Waves).
the get a good review?
Everything in the book gets a rave, since the point is to identify great records which have been lost or underrated. But yes, I give a stellar review to
Fire of Love.
Opening line: "This isn't southern gothic; it's feral white trash."
Very nice.
There's also a metaphor about guitar playing based on truck lot whores and a reference to "a black pubic hair caught in a crust of blood on polyblend panties." So you can see I have not stinted on the Nasteee while describing The Gun Club's punk blues.
"she's like heroin to me" was my favorite love song for a while....
edit: i just love fire of love.
"she's like heroin to me" was my favorite love song for a while....
Have you heard the Congo-Norvell version of this song? They do it as a very slow, narcotic duet. It's amazing. Just gorgeous and it highlights the lyrics, and Kid Congo plays fantastic guitar on it.
Have you heard the Congo-Norvell version of this song?
nope. that sounds really cool. i'll have to look out for that.
mazzy star does a nice cover of "ghost on the highway." (the gun club did write that, right?)
edit: come to think of it, i have heard someone do a slow cover of "she's like heroin to me."
nope. that sounds really cool. i'll have to look out for that.
It's in the used bins here at Amoeba.
mazzy star does a nice cover of "ghost on the highway." (the gun club did write that, right?)
Yup, Gun Club. Another band covered it on one of the Bloodshot comps too.
Once more, with bolding:
You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too--yeah
Yep, it's an honor to share my birthday not only with everyone's favorite thereminist/actuary/music know-it-all, but also with Mr. Anthony Stewart Head, and my son Walter (the Frankenphotoshopper)
hey hec - do you know the origin of the term "gun club"? here's one possibility, anyway. it's an informal term that refers to a group of high-ranking officers on a us navy battleship. they were in charge of the big guns, or battleship gun strategy or something like that.
of course, it's also used for a club for people to shoot their rifles, etc. for all i know this might predate the us navy usage. come to think of it, it makes sense for the navy to have adopted it from this usage.
