The Gun Club 1981 interview from Suburban Relapse #5
(via Selena Russell)
T. TEX EDWARDS ON BLOGSPOT Consisting primarily of re-blogs of interesting stuff with a few original blogpostings here and there...
The NERVEBREAKERS: "Mental Shakedown: Laurent Bigot gets the full story of these long-lasting Texas punks" in ten pages from UGLY THINGS #30
The Nervebreakers performing at The Longhorn Ballroom in January 1978 opening for The Sex Pistols.
Someone recently made me aware of a mention of The Nervebreakers & T. Tex Edwards as "precursors" of the cowpunk movement in the WIKIPEDIA posting concerning "Cowpunk." Can't say I agree with all they've said, but it's nice to get mentioned...
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpunk
Tim Stegall says in this AUSTIN CHRONICLE article:
"...Preempting the rise of Jason & the Scorchers and Hickoids by eight years, the Nervebreakers were the first cowpunk band, before that designation devolved into a Los Angeles cartoon..."
The Nervebreakers started covering George Jones' "The Race Is On" back in 1979, and recorded it in 1980 for their first album WE WANT EVERYTHING. They wrote & were performing an original tune called "I Don't Wanna Hold Your Hand" in 1979 (although the recording of the song is from much later). Both of which are supposedly the first cowpunk songs.
"The Race Is On" by The Nervebreakers from the WE WANT EVERYTHING album on YouTube:
Source: https://youtu.be/4mD-XsE_xNw
"I Don't Wanna Hold Your Hand" by The Nervebreakers from the FACE UP TO REALITY album on YouTube:
The Slash Magazine article on The Nervebreakers/Sex Pistols show at the Longhorn Ballroom, where on the first page they mention three nonexistent Nervebreakers songs, "Neiman Marcus Trendies", "No Bull", & "Lone Star Anarchist"! Well if you didn't catch any of the song titles, just make 'em up...
Here is another thing I do when I find something I want to remember, but am afraid the original link & post will one day disappear into the internet no-man's-land graveyard where things online go when they go ptooof! That is I copy it & put it here on my blog. This has come in handy a couple of times when the original post really did disappear & my blogpost of it is the only documentation left. So here I go again. Kevin Ayers is one of my obsessions for better or for worse. His work has been both, & sometimes both at the same time. I will let the following explain itself...
Back cover of the Jekyll & Hyde b/w Man From Mars Honey Records 45 single. Photo by Clinton Bell (RIP). |
Butch Paulson, the man who wrote & first sang "Man From Mars". |
Butch Paulson's original 1961 single of "Man From Mars" on Virgelle Records. |
Jim Burgett who originally sang "Jekyll & Hyde". |
The first incarnation was titled "Split Personality" on Go Records from 1961. |
Front cover of the Jekyll & Hyde b/w Man from Mars 45 single from Honey Records. Artwork by John S. Hancock (from Amazing Hancock Bros.) |
The Vagabond Loafers: Mikaleno Amundson, Pip Plyler, T. Tex Edwards |
The Vagabond Loafers (name borrowed from a Three Stooges episode) were the first combo I was involved with after moving to Hollywood. Mikaleno Amundson was my weed buddy who lived across the hall when I first moved out west & I lived with Texas Terri Laird at the Malaga Castle for a spell. Mikaleno was a guitarist & former sailor. He'd talk about life on the big boats. We had in common a love of Chris Spedding's guitar playing & smoking weed. He had been around Hollywood for awhile & done time with Christian Death & one of Sky Saxon's later bands.
Afton Arms AKA The Happy Malaga Castle in Hollywood, California |
The Vagabond Loafers at Texas Terri benefit at Raji's in Hollywood: Mikaleno Amundson, Pip Plyler, T. Tex Edwards |
The Loafin' Hyenas (photo by Margot Reyes) with Tom Blaylock, Rob Ritter (RIP), Hermann Senac, Click Mort (RIP) & yours truly... |