If you want to have a successful career in the music business, you gotta start somewhere. For me, that somewhere was The Instant Prehistoric Animals, my first band. Actually, if you want a successful career in music, don’t look to me. I have existed at the very fringes of the underground for for 40 years.
Matty Lou’s Home-Cooked Chicken Dinner was the most ambitious supergroup in the history of American popular music. The band featured members of mega-70s rock acts Moot Whistle Express, Franken-Funk, J.P. & the All-Star White Boy Jam Band, Heavy Whipping Cream, and Blues Smashers featuring Johnny Bricks.
As a result of this move, the past six months have been a time of paring down, minimizing, and getting rid of stuff. It’s one of the reasons I decided to shutter the RoosterCow Distro and make changes to the RoosterCow Store.
I used to hate the Crüe back in the day. Hated them. Hated their look, their attitude, and especially the horrible, godawful music they made. I could not understand how anybody could like them. Unfortunately for me, the majority of my small group of high school friends (and rural Illinois in general) were into metal and really into the Crüe.
Falco may be familiar to those of a certain age who remember being bombarded by “Rock Me Amadeus” circa 1986. As a result of that shelling, we can be forgiven for being a little shell-shocked by his somewhat ridiculous attempt at white boy rap. In the mid ‘80s, rap music was hardly the commercially or critically accepted force that it is today, and yet, here was this Austrian dude with one name “rapping” about Mozart.