#179
1980 Housekeeping
Surf Punks
My Beach
Genre: It helps to have friends in the record biz
1.5 out of 5
Highlights:
Shoulder Hopper
Lowlights:
Dummies
Big Top
Ugh, are they belching? Yes, they are belching. Cuz, they are “punks, man!”. Except they aren’t. They wanna be funny and anti-social and everything and…they aren’t. They are rich Malibu kids’ idea of what Punk is.
Ok, originally I had a different locale for the simile and then I looked them up and, dammit, this band is led by Daryl Dragon’s son. You know, Daryl, he was the Captain of Captain and Tenille. This is a rich kids version of skater punk. It’s tourism.
“Their subsequent first album, an independent release on their own label, Day Glo Records, garnered them enough airplay on the then fledgling L.A. alternative radio station KROQ-FM to lead to a re-release of the album on Epic Records in 1980, and the release of two further albums, Locals Only and Oh No, Not Them Again on Enigma Records, with Mark Miller, keyboard player Jerry Weber and lifeguard/guitarist Andy Jackson.”
Lifeguard/Guitarist.
All you need to know.
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