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The Axis Of Evil Knievel
| Artist | Song | |
| Sparks | Nothing To Do | |
| Shocking Blue | Love Buzz | |
| T-Rex | Buick Mackane | |
| The Chambers Brothers | Time Has Come Today | |
| Hawkwind | Silver Machine | |
| The Scruffs | I'm a Failure | |
| Ultravox! | Young Savage | |
| The dB's | Bad Reputation | |
| The Flamin' Groovies | Jumpin' In the Night | |
| The Rolling Stones | Citadel | |
| Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus | Quick Joey Small | |
| Sweet | Wig Wam Bam | |
| 20/20 | Yellow Pills | |
| The Outsiders | Misfit | |
| The Electric Prunes | Never Had It Better | |
| Pere Ubu | Final Solution | |
| Blue Oyster Cult | Godzilla | |
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The story goes something like this. Friend gets laid off of job (at place I use to work myself). Friend invites me over to help drown his sorrows, play records and make noise on music instruments. Other friends stop by on other visits and we bang out a few tunes. Someones girlfriend gets the bright idea to tell her friend that she knows a band (which this wasn't at this point, and it is still questionable) and that they should play at one of his happenings (one of these multimedia things with DJ's spinning and bands playing, artist showing works--oh so Andy Warhol wanna-bee). One day beau of girlfriend reveals we are booked to play this event. GASP! Thus a fake bio is drawn up citing members as former pop sensations in Finland cira 1992. We then drudge thru what songs that the hypster 20-somethings at the happening might not know and that our limited abilities can fake through and then we name the group. The Axis Of Evil Knievel (yes Evil spells his name Evel but we don't)is formed (whether we play again is unknown). This mix was actually made for the bass player and well the rest of us to learn the words and stuff as well. Mix actual turns out to be entertaining.
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Great title / band name!
and i've been jumping to Young savage since i was 14 ;). really cool loud car music
maybe i can book you to my party when i turn 40 ?
According to the "bio" two "members" were former "pop sensations" in neighboring Finland when they played in Damaged Retina. I will add to the bio that the group has been invited to play for Swedish royalty thanks to your offer.
Great story and great mix.
Excellent! This is how legends are formed...., although the Finnish precursor has been comped on the "Fading Yellow" series, I think...maybe post-Sweden you'll consider a concert from the Rim of the Grand Canyon...?
(...and lo-fi may want you for the same party as p....)
(...and lo-fi may want you for the same party as p....)
If every cover band played "Wig Wam Bam," the world would be a better place. Though I suppose "Little Willy" would do in a pinch.
fuckin weird. thats my username on WinMX
Really funny/fun. This is MOTW type stuff in both spirit and in execution. May I suggest throwing in some underground-death-metal song to serve as both an encore as well as a chaser? Just a thought.
great stuff, Tom. We can always count on you to be entertaining. My 40th is next year. Would you come and play at my birthday party? It's either your band or some duran duran wannabees (I don't get to pick as it's probably a surprise party) These tunes would be more than welcome.
great playlist & great liner notes.
(Damaged Retina - didn't they have a hit with "Taatikkaaren Taaa"? )
(Damaged Retina - didn't they have a hit with "Taatikkaaren Taaa"? )
My 40th Birthday is a good year, one month and 23 days away. Somehow the group is now the top draw for 40th birthday party bashes. Who would have thunk?
FROM THE "OFFICIAL" BIO
Damaged Retina accounted for 60 per cent of all records sold in Finland on February 26, 1992, according to industry sources. The group shared the stage with The Royal Flushes (whom comprise the other half of the group)at The Empress Ballroom in Blackpool before a crowd of 9,000 fans, which included many drunken Scots on holiday. Troublemakers spat and pelted The Flushes with garbage. Mott Attesac picked up a cricket bat injuring several of the hooligans. But the horde of bloodthirsty Scots could not be stopped forcing them to flee the building. The concert marked the end of both bands but established a life long friendship. After a decade of absence from the music scene, they formed The Axis Of Evil Knievel.
Damaged Retina accounted for 60 per cent of all records sold in Finland on February 26, 1992, according to industry sources. The group shared the stage with The Royal Flushes (whom comprise the other half of the group)at The Empress Ballroom in Blackpool before a crowd of 9,000 fans, which included many drunken Scots on holiday. Troublemakers spat and pelted The Flushes with garbage. Mott Attesac picked up a cricket bat injuring several of the hooligans. But the horde of bloodthirsty Scots could not be stopped forcing them to flee the building. The concert marked the end of both bands but established a life long friendship. After a decade of absence from the music scene, they formed The Axis Of Evil Knievel.
Looks great to me. I'd love to see this set!
You can play my 40th b-day party - it's 21 years from now..... in my dreams. Great set list and really funny name!
Ya know, it's weird but I'm planning a 40th birthday mix which looks shockingly similair to this.
This is both shocking and soothing at the same time. I am enamored.
As the proficient guitar player in the racket macking machine, I am blessed to see our hype and mythical legend grow. We close to 40-something are jaded now. Why? You ask. Long before The Strokes, "us in the know" dressed with the carefully executed "too cool to care" style. We wore our haircuts like that before it was in. We had all the Wire, Television, Blondie and Iggy Pop records back then and it didn't get us laid one damn bit. Now some kid can adapt this look and the chickies swoon. Back then they scoffed at us.
I am going on the record and stating that I will not play Birthday Parties for 40 year old men. Sorry guys, the only way we even played out to begin with was the wooing of a cute little vixen who dates the drummer.
Well, I've got a good 3 years to go before I'll need you to play my 40th, so by then you should have worked in a few obscure Lemon Pipers and Guadalcanal Diary covers into your setlist. And I'll be in the market for a good Bar Mitzvah band for my kid in a few years, so think you guys could work up the mandatory "Celebration" and "Hava Nagilah" covers?
Bar Mitzvah band? Sure. We can work out a surf version of "Hava Nagilah" but the rest of the set will be nothing but covers of the great Jews is rock. I will turn to CASETTA to do the research on that.
Well, for Jewish covers I'd start with T. Rex, Sleater-Kinney, Phish, Lou Reed, Jane's Addiction, Yo La Tengo, Ramones, Richard Hell, Big Audio Dynamite, Steely Dan, Veruca Salt, Elastica, Dylan, Jonathan Richman, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, etc. (You could probably skip the Neil Diamond, Kiss, Rush, Paul Simon, Michael Bolton, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, and Paula Abdul covers, though.)
Mark Question? Great name! Is the bass player named Colin Semi? heh heh. Looks like a great set list. Who gets to do the voices of fleeing Japanese citizens on the Godzilla cover? Anyway, my 40th birthday is about two years away, so I'll book you guys now. You should be really tight by then.
Unfortunatly, we won't be around Ion. According to the psychic readings, the future of the band is in peril. On the eve of a performance at someones 40th Birthday party I am scheduled to suffer a brain hemorrhage and die in the arms of my Venezuelan fiancTe scuptress. The brain hemmorage will be the result of untreated injuries resulting form being struck by a bus in Paris 4 months prior. Therefore we will not play any 40th Birthday gigs.
Casetta is correct. His dabbling's with the the occult will eventually curse the group. As long as we are writing the history of the band, our bass player will retire to Finland and open a Scottish Pub. I have a torid affair with actress Jennifer Tilly and our drummer will carry on the band in name only.
ok that's fine with me 'cos the costumer service had some problem to let you in to our marvellous innocent country, they said you were a bunch of druggies and use to take all our women but the party will be on next week anyway
p the swede,
Damaged Retina never took any of the Swedish women. If only we had the charm and looks like our pals in The Royal Flushes would be able to use the great Swedish export called women. Drugs were our substitute. Bass player Hoover loved the Peruvian flake while I was messed up on Mandrax.
Damaged Retina never took any of the Swedish women. If only we had the charm and looks like our pals in The Royal Flushes would be able to use the great Swedish export called women. Drugs were our substitute. Bass player Hoover loved the Peruvian flake while I was messed up on Mandrax.
whiz! bang! zoom!
Hey, I want a t-shirt! Wonderful mix. Le' me know when "The Axis..." makes it to the big city.
i coulda sworn i caught the retina on the underside of a quadruple bill in a dive near helsinki. but it could be the herring-flavored vodka shots talking. awesome! and how encouraging to see so many near-fortysomethings at AotM. party at tom's house?
great toons, great title, great pixture