By DJ Monk
Whatever the fuck happened to Saturday night television? I mean, it used to be fucking awesome. ‘The Dukes Of Hazard’. ‘Wonder Woman’. ‘Starsky And Hutch’. ‘The A Team’. ‘The Billion Dollar Man’. Appetisers for ‘Convoy’ or ‘Smokey And The Bandit’ as the feature movie. Those were the days. Piles of shite, each and every single one of them. But the sort of shite you enjoyed rolling in and coming up smiling afterwards. It’s the sort of shite that the three guys from Minneapolis who make up Speedbilly grew up on.
Well, it’s been quite a while since Speedbilly roared their way on to ÜRHQ’s death decks – nigh on two-and-a-half years, if memory serves me correct, which is around when they unleashed their hysterical awesome debut offering, ‘Hold Our Beers And Watch This’, upon an unsuspecting world, and got me ranting and raving about the same… so, has anything changed in the interim? Well, hold my beer (see what I did there?) and I’ll tell ya, boy…
Not a helluva lot. Well, they’ve had a line-up change. But, apart from that, they’re still obsessed with fast cars, motorbikes, monster trucks and washed up TV daredevils… Yep, they’re still stuck in the Seventies, putting that ‘Pedal To The Medal’ with their tales of ‘Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry’ and the ‘Grave Digger’. And glory be for that, ‘cos as long as they’re producing rip-roaring rock ‘n’ roll adventures such as these, then I for one ain’t gonna complain. No sirree.
Another thing you can’t help but love about Messrs Jimmy Allen Moore (fuck, that definitely is a good ol’ boy name right there), John Stegner and NKOTB Brian Gordon: their previous pedigrees include bands who revelled in names such as The Scrods, The Panty Huffers, Vasoline Alley and Jehovah’s Shitlist. Yep, these boys don’t take things too seriously – apart, that is, from the riffs they lay down. While the emphasis is very much on having fun, these boys can also deliver some serious rawk ‘n’ roll guaranteed to get even the staidest of parties started. And all I can say is “amen to that”. Oh, and “yeehaw”. Which leaves only one thing to do… and that’s slick back that mullet, dust off your best cowboy boots, crack open another beer and hit the “repeat” button… OK, that’s four things, but who’s counting? Certainly not me!
- ‘Hillbilly Speed Freak’ is out now. You can get your copy HERE.
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