Brownsville Station

Here tis.. Cool Fred Schmidt, Quick Joey Gaydos, and Pete Bankert. Et al.

And don't fear random browsers, I would never recommend Air Special to the ILM standard. Shun it. It's too hammerheaded. Heh. Start with Yeah!. Or more succinctly, "Smokin' In the Boys Room," which is of the three most hard rock songs which align with the electricity of the period on the LP, then go to "Martian Boogie." And if you like all that, get the Wounded Bird reissue of No BS, too.

i was kidding! and drunk! i like your tastes. probably cuz they correspond with my own quite often.

And, uh, MX-80!

">>punk was just starting to heat up, and the roots/punk sound of NO >>B.S. or YEAH! would have fit right in.
You have no idea what you're talking about. I had a radio show that played their albums and my band, the Highway Kings, copied Brownsville from this period. And it was not what any punk rockers wanted. It was what biker rockers and roadhouse power drinkers liked. You'd be closer if you said old timey rock 'n' roll and country flavors."

Man, early punk was nothing BUT old timey rock & roll. ("Old timey"...you make the shit sound like it's DIXIELAND or something.) When the Ramones first album came out, it wasn't about Anarchy In The U.S. so much as it was restoring rock & roll to its' pre-psych roots. It is NO accident that the first neo-garage, surf and rockabilly bands went over so well in punk clubs in the late seventies and early eighties. And when the Flamin' Groovies made their mid-70's comeback on Sire, it was mainly the nascent punk scenes that were getting into them. And I'd put NO B.S.-era Brownsville in there.

">>and they basically became just another undistinguished speedway >>metal band on those albums. and i like Grand Funk and Black Oak >>Arkansas, but i expect different from Brownsville.

They were never big enough to compete with Ted or Aerosmith"

But they probably played on the same bill with them, so close enough. (Aerosmith were still only a regional attraction with their first LP when Brownsville had "Smokin'", so I wouldn't be surprised if Aerosmith opened for THEM early on.)

"There was little sin in being a speedway metal band, undistinguished or otherwise. Nugent was a speedway metal act"

I have no use for Nugent outside of early Amboy Dukes (on the Mainstream label). Why the fuck should I be impressed?

"so was Foghat"

I haven't listened to them in a good 20 years. Not a fan antymore. Why should I be impressed?

"so was GF. So was Kiss."

I have no retort, here. These bands are cool with me!

">>SPECIAL came out, they were going all Nugent on us, and that wasnt >>working for me.

One album produced by Tom Werman. Not much difference between it and the last except no "Martian Boogie" and "Lady" (and you not liking it.)"

You got that right. Cain't help it that the "Martian Boogie" LP had the better songs. All AIR SPECIAL had was "Cooda Crawlin'", which woulda been a real good Ram Jam song.

"They were never a Detroit Molly Hatchet."

That's what I said! Before I found AIR SPECIAL and M.C. CONNECTION. No thanks, I'm stickin' with SCHOOL PUNKS.

"And I had the Points album."

HAD? Shit, I still got mine. (I BETTER hold on to that fucker, since it doesn't show up everyday! Pink vinyl, hey!)

">>himself once said that the band kinda lost direction towards the >>end there.

Yes he did."

And he didn't lie.

">>were going all Nugent on us,

And the Nuge was making good albums during the same period."

You're preaching to the wrong choir. Didn't I just say that the Nuge didn't impress me?

I'm not as big on mullethead music as you are. Nah, I take it back, seeing as how I own 86 of the 500 albums in that STAIRWAY TO HELL heavy metal guide. But, I'm probably a bigger rockabilly/garage/punk fan, and since CONNECTION and SPECIAL have NONE of those elements, those two rekkids have been gathering dust since I got 'em. However, if some Mahogany Rush fan like yourself wants to defend them LP's, have at it, bro...

And I prefer the Allman Joys to the Allman Brothers Band, too.

I might even spend five.

Been listening to School Punks, really terrible pressing that has surface noise but just seems like that's how it's supposed to be heard

Lotta Boogie Rock Hardmanning upthread!

Picked a nice vinyl copy of No BS for cheap this weekend. Really charming mix of 50s Rock revivalism and Power Pop before they really amped up the Arena Boogie aspect of their sound.