Sock it to Me!

Friends, I've been getting back into Blues Explosion/the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion/JSBX.  And I'm loving it.

Why did I EVER stop listening??  Well they were played non-stop during my college years & they toured like mad.  I must've seen them 20 times in a 5 year period (ALWAYS an excellent show, by the way).

But now that years have passed, I remember why I loved those hot bitches in the first place.  I mean:

JSBX -- Wail
JSBX -- Sweat
JSBX -- Dang

Dang is right!  You see, JSBX understands the power of shouting the hott rock'n roll phrases into a song. It's like he's got the "sexy tourettes" (TM c.crumbcake) or sumthin.   

So if you wanna rock & work the crowd into a humping tizzy, sprinkling any & all of the following makes for the rock' roll sexy: 

• get down!
• sock it to me!
• woMUUUN!
• awright!
• YEH-yuh!
• new york CITAAAAAAAY!
• da-YUM!
• gawd da-YUM! 
• numba one!
• blues explosion! 

I have literally seen boys & girls alike worked into a raging sexual lather during a JSBX show.  Once after a show many years ago, my friend Suky announced that she wanted to hire them to play her future bachelorette party.  Because they were infinitely more effective than hiring a stripper as far as getting the girls worked up.  Werd.

You can read more about JSBX in Wikipedia.

JSBX VIDEOS:
--  Bellbottoms!
--  Flavor! video feat Beck
--  Afro!
--  Talk About the Blues live on French TV & the video (with Winona Ryder as Jon S, Giovanni Ribisi as Judah Bauer & John C. Reilly playing Mr Russell Simins??)
--  Wail live on French TV (wish I could find the music video for this one -- directed by Weird Al Yankovich -- it's great!)

Jon is now in a band called HEAVY TRASH -- check out a video for Dark Haird Rider.  Looks like they're rolling out the rockabilly blues thundah in the Netherlands as we speak.  Jon, I approve of your rockabilly thing, seems like the natural direction for you to take.  However. I do not like your rock-a-mullet (see video for gross hair fashion infraction).  Just sayin'.

Judah Bauer's writing music & "slumming with local bands" according to his website.  Of course that was written on March 18, 2006.  Judah, where are you now?

& Russell Simmins is producing & playing drums with Brooklyn-based kid rockers Tiny Masters of Today.  Check out their video for BUSHY.

Comments

[Matt Brand]

Um, this is like your longest post EVER. I think it was YOU who was getting worked up!!!