I must admit that I had not heard this before just now, and it is fucking beautiful and hilarious; also, the lead singer has an intermittent fake-British accent, which is the best kind of British accent, and he counts the song in three or four times which is the proper amount of times to count in a song.
I retract any and all slander and accusations leveled at The Pop-O-Pies.
Sometimes, live, (tho not the time I saw them) they would just do a punk version of “Going Down The Road” and not do “Truckin'”
Plus they would do a 15 minute version of the donut song (“Make these donuts with extra grease/This bag is for the chief of police”). Rocked the Berkeley Square (1233 University as I recall )
San Francisco had quite the punk scene back then no?
Well by that time no. There definitely was a left of the dial thing, but no longer really punk
In ’88 I saw some terrible band open for the Meat Puppets at Berkely Square. I spent the whole time talking with a friend about Argent. Opening acts at BSquare all sucked anyway
It was weird years later when they turned out to be Soundgarden
I agree that sound garden sucks.
It was never my flavour but I was subjected to a fair amount of Dead Kennedy’s, D.R I, M.D.C etc. By virtue of a thin wall between my brothers bedroom and mine.
Spencer, those three bands were some of my favorites before my first Dead show in 86. A friend had the Pop O Pies too, we used to crack up at it….
Nive JK, my friend plays an acoustic/unplugged/tearjerker ballad version of Dead in a Ditch that leaves me howling every time.
Nice not nive
This may be my new favorite version of truckin’
I’m still smiling.
There is an earlier studio version of Truckin that is somewhat different