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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

The Bad Detectives
The Best (and the Rest) Of...
(Western Star)




When he awoke, he was half off a club chair. The table top was wet. He didn't recognize the jacket he wore. The crowd was raving. A band up front was cohesive, funny, and celebrated low cultural references all at once. 

He lurched to the front, double vision blurred, and dug the Bad Detectives.

Recommended: 

CD #1: "Son of Kong," "Surfin' the Severn Bore," "Ford Capri," "B-Movie Scientist," "Weymouth Flyer," "Double-Neck Guitar," "I Fell In Love With the Mole Man's Girl," "Midnight Brighton Run," "Down In the Block," "[She's Gonna Give Tom Jones Her] Room Key," "Shapards Barton Special Agent," "What Happened To Buster Crabb?," "Junk-Shop Guitar."

CD #2: "Howlin' For My Baby," "Crawdaddy Simone," "What To Do," "Monster Rock," "Twister Vacation"," "[I Had the} Strangest Dream," "Cadillac Under My Christmas Tree," "Go-Go Surfin' Santa," "Black-Eye Friday."

Videos: "Son of Kong"
             "Surfin' the Severn Bore"
             "B-Movie Scientist"
             "Twister Vacation"


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FORMER staff writer for Rockabilly and Pin Up America magazines. FREELANCE credits include Daily Caller, American Thinker, Free Republic, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Independent Political Report, USA Today, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Waterloo Courier, Cedar Falls Times, Marshalltown Times Republican, Cincinnati.com, IndyStar, Arizona Republic, No Depression, Goldmine, Blue Suede News, Rock and Rap Confidential, Crackerjack, Blues News, Wrecking Pit, Punk Globe, Prairie Sun, Music and Sound Output, BAM, New Music, and 1980s NYC fanzines Shake, Rattle, and Roll, Rebel Rouser, and Off the Wall. AUTHOR: Shake, Rattle and Rocket!, Ghost Saucers in the Sky!, Stratosphere Boogieman!, Flesh Made Music, That a Man Can Again Stand Up: American spirit vs, sedition during the incipient Trump Revolution, and Ideas Afoot: Political observations, social commentary, and media analyses. WORKED as 2004 Iowa coordinator for Ralph Nader independent presidential campaign; co-founded Iowa Green Party, also served as statewide media coordinator; press coordinator, 2002 Jay Robinson (Green) IA gubernatorial effort. Wrote extensively re Trump campaign..