Re: [bomp] Eddie and the Hot Rods

["Lenny Smith" <vze3c488@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Michael Snider" <lasciviumdei@yahoo.com> wrote:
> BTW there's nothing wrong with "Life on the Line" at
> all. It's a perfectly great album.

I found it disappointing after "Teenage Depression," which I think outrocked
it by miles.  I DID love the single, "Do Anything You Wanna Do," but the
rest of it didn't move me.  Maybe I SHOULD give it another listen, but I'm
skeptical.  The real nail in the coffin, though, was seeing them in...  was
it '78?...  at the Orpheum with, I think, Nick Lowe and Rockpile and Elvis
Costello & The Attractions.  Opener/closer were GREAT, but Eddie & The Hot
Rods whole presence was kind of a reversion to the rock star posturings that
punk, and the "Teenage Depression" lp, were a reaction AGAINST.  The singer
(been so long, I don't even remember if there really was an Eddie, LOL, and
I'm feeling to lazy to search it) was, for all intents and purposes, doing a
Roger Daltry, no shirt, Woodstock look type-thing, and Higsons slick rockin'
licks took a backseat to mindless hard rock wankery leads from the other
guy.  They were a real letdown at the time.

Lenny

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