Does anybody else but me listen to these guys? Their most recent album, I'm Goin' Out And Get Hurt Tonight, is from 2004, and I don't have it, but I do have everything from Tapping The Source (1987) through Somewhere Down The Line (2000) in my iPod (except for the live album Radio Cowgirl), and they're all ferocious burners. Their mix of punk velocity, garage-rock distortion and fury, and Rolling Stones swagger (and willingness to borrow from country when the mood strikes) make them one of my favorite punk-rawk bands. Any ILMers ever seen 'em live?
― unperson, Saturday, 17 May 2008 19:52 (eighteen years ago)
Many years ago, yeah -- opening at the Whisky in LA for L7, IIRC. Great show.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 May 2008 19:53 (eighteen years ago)
Apparently, they broke up after that last album, and Pat Todd has a new band, the Rankoutsiders, whose first release was a 2006 double disc set, and who just put out a new one in February. Might have to look for those.
― unperson, Saturday, 17 May 2008 20:04 (eighteen years ago)
Only saw them once. They opened for Speedball Baby if I remember right. It was on the "ragged soul" tour. Great show. Great band.
― steampig67, Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:54 (eighteen years ago)
How It Looks, How It Is & Tapping The Source are both essential.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:56 (eighteen years ago)
Seen 'em live both recently and loooong ago. Last time I saw 'em (Comet in Seattle a few years ago), I asked Pat if they still played "Dye 'n Red". He said no and walked away. Oh wells, love you still. Anyways, he looked real old, but still rocked like a motherfucker. Chugged a little bear-shaped bottle of honey during a guitar solo, about midway through the set. Like an "energy drink", maybe. I bought a tee-shirt, which now belongs to my girlfriend for some reason.
Debut LP, Tapping the Source, Third Time's the Charm & How It Looks, How It Is are ALL essential. So's Radio Cowgirl (great Saints cover), tho the recording quality's pretty shitty. Have 'em on vinyl, but haven't yet gotten around to dignifying them so's I can listen on the ipod.
― contenderizer, Sunday, 18 May 2008 18:27 (eighteen years ago)
Loved Tapping the Source 20 years ago (pretty sure I reviewed it in Creem Metal at the time), but stupidly got rid of my copy during some moving purge since. Never saw them live. Haven't kept up, which I've always assumed was my loss...
― xhuxk, Sunday, 18 May 2008 18:38 (eighteen years ago)
Listening to Tapping the Source after having a wholly unprompted dream last night* where I was interviewing this band (or, rather, one very young member of a present-day incarnation of this band; also, I didn't have a notepad so they gave me a City Pages to write on). Anyway, album's pretty enjoyable. "Heartache" is the one that most immediately matches the praise I've encountered.
*actually, I did glance back through that Alternative Press 85-95 list the other day
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 6 December 2020 23:35 (five years ago)
I interviewed Todd last year. Good guy, as smart and clear-eyed about his work as his lyrics would indicate.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 7 December 2020 02:27 (five years ago)