Be A Weirdo

The Weirdos
Album: (only released as a single)
Song: Life Of Crime

JK Rowling sends a manuscript to eight prospective publishers.  They all say no.  The ninth publisher, Bloomsbury, says yes.  Harry Potter goes on to sell 800 billion books.  The Texas Rangers sign baseball's best player, Alex Rodriguez, to a record 10 year, $252 million dollar contract.  Texas finishes dead last in their division in every successive year and eventually trade A-Fraud to the New York Bloated Fuckers.

The line between success and failure can be thin.  Hella thin, as the kids would say.  Almost everyone knows Black Flag.  Very few know Tenor Saw.  Sheryl Crow owns three mansions and Lance Armstrong's balls.*   Lissie owns a burgeoning alcohol abuse problem and an increased likelihood of contracting an STD.  James Cameron is a gazillionaire.  Richard Linklater is a severalthousandaire.  Tenor Sax, Lissie, and Richard Linklater are by any standard the equal of their counterparts, and yet huge mainstream success eludes them.  We should add The Weirdos to our list.

As far as I know The Weirdos did not release an EP or LP in the 70s and 80s.  A bunch of singles, but no album. And like Linklater et al they are at least the artistic equals of other commercially successful So Cal punk bands from the late 70s.  Our song of the day is one of the best of its genre, in my opinion: raw, brutal, great guitar riff, great lyrics, and James Denney is a charismatic frontman.

Bassist Cliff Roman went on to become an elementary school teacher.  Heh.



* What's left of them, at any rate.  Did I ever say I was above such tastelessness?