Monday, May 26, 2008

The Gories 'Thunderbird ESQ'

Detroit band the Gories with an ode to an alcoholic beverage. Now, of course Mick Collins fronts the Dirtbombs. The wiki says 'They were among the first garage punk bands to incorporate overt blues influences' (in 1986). Funny, but this song reminds me of the stuff we used to play around Frome in the mid 70s when I used to sing with the Bad Detectives. Course no-one cared about us then because we were from Somerset and playing to pubs full of Elvis loving Roma people and not from Detroit and instead considered ourselves lucky not to get beaten up for our trouble. Bitter, moi? Actually a dog got into our chicken pen this morning and killed one and injured a couple of others so I do feel kind of crap...