Editor's note: I'd been waiting for the right Facebook music list to arrive that I could grab for this blog, and, lo, it came this past Sunday. It's fitting that it's by Dave's bartender John Yuelkenbeck, not just because he presides over the best jukebox in town, but also because he published, edited and did most of the writing for a local music zine in the early '90s called Sound. Thanks to John for letting me post his classy list/essay as-is. The premise is basically the classic desert-island
Lawrence's Cocknoose is the most dangerous band in the world. Seriously, the band has been known for everything from starting fistfights in the crowd at their shows to a notorious incident at the Replay where a deer's head was tossed into the crowd. Not a fake one, mind you. We're talkin an honest-to-what-the-fuck deer's head that had been removed from a butchered deer.
A quote from the Widowmaker in a 1992 Life From Beyond interview sums it up pretty nicely:
There's been blood from our
