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By Richard Gintowt
Published on August 01, 2007 at 10:55am
Mosquitoes and bandits share two essential skills: (1) ruthlessness and (2) the ability to strike fast and get the hell outta Dodge. Both traits are also associated with one-man punk bands, which tend to divide dinner-party conversations like politics or plane engines falling through the roof. With qualified eccentrics such as Hasil Adkins and Scott H. Biram leading the charge, the genre requires a certain amount of gumption. Enter Mosquito Bandito: a hell-blazing, amp-shaking hellbilly vigilante who has probably never surfed but will surf rock 'til the cows come home. The premise may be old-hat, but the bandanna still fits.
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