May 01, 2003

FAVORITE BAND NAME OF THE DAY



Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce you to ...

LOS DRYHEAVERS

I think with a little practice, I could have been the Gary Charone of this band, parachuting in to supplement the lineup. I definitely had the dry heaving down pat when I was in college.

A confession: I'm such a bitch for surf punk bands that wear Mexican wrestling masks. Maybe there's a corrolary between that and my love for KISS. Actually, there are more Mexican wrestling punk bands floating around in the music industry than you might think:



LOS ESQUIZITOS

Not satisfied to merely be a Mexican psycho-garage-punk-surf band, it threw in a spooky theremin in several of the tracks on its self titled debut album. Also in its live shows you can see them playing a self made theremin. They mix old Mexican 50s wrestling mask horror movies with their cool sound. Unfortunately they broke up, but they have an E.P. called "Hagalo Usted Mismo" (Make It Yourself) in which also features the theremin. (For the record, their name means "exquisite things")



LOS STRAITJACKETS

Formed in Nashville as an instrumental band by Eddie Angel, Jimmy Lester and Danny Amis under the name The Straitjackets, the band didn't play again for six years. They've since gone on tour and appeared five times on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. In January 2001, a 45 was released in Spain featuring the movie theme classics ""My Heart Will Go On" and "Theme from The Magnificent Seven."


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