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Or give it up for the shortest band of hard rockers this side of the Killer Dwarfs (yeah, who remembers them ...).
Here are a couple of vids - the first I love because of the following:
a) the song - great Buck Dharma tune
b) all the guys in the band are wearing skinny jeans and white trainers, so you know it must be circa 1981
c) the spurned dude setting himself on fire in his car, which I could only imagine as a BOC vision of love (he's 'Burnin' for You', girl ...)
d) the dude who sets himself on fire is (unless my eyesight fails me) is Detective Harry Garibaldi from Hill Street Blues
d) the girl he is burning for, at 1:48. Looks like she would burn your house down if you messed with her ...
e) Those mutant 'Gibson' Explorer / Flying V guitars that Buck Dharma and Allen Lanier are playing.
From around the same time, ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), live from Florida:
... and ... they always gave Patti Smith at least one co-write on each album back in the mid-70s up to the early 80s:
Here are a couple of vids - the first I love because of the following:
a) the song - great Buck Dharma tune
b) all the guys in the band are wearing skinny jeans and white trainers, so you know it must be circa 1981
c) the spurned dude setting himself on fire in his car, which I could only imagine as a BOC vision of love (he's 'Burnin' for You', girl ...)
d) the dude who sets himself on fire is (unless my eyesight fails me) is Detective Harry Garibaldi from Hill Street Blues
d) the girl he is burning for, at 1:48. Looks like she would burn your house down if you messed with her ...
e) Those mutant 'Gibson' Explorer / Flying V guitars that Buck Dharma and Allen Lanier are playing.
From around the same time, ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), live from Florida:
... and ... they always gave Patti Smith at least one co-write on each album back in the mid-70s up to the early 80s:
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