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I saw The Supersuckers a number of times back in BC--that would be before children--and their shows were always a rockin' good time. Kiss
might have been "The Hottest Band in the Land" but The Supersuckers are
the unabashedly self declared "Greatest Rock-n-Roll Band in the
World". Welcome back boys.
Excerpt from frontman/bass player, Eddie, on The Supersuckers main page:
My
son Quattro says the next thing they will invent for phones will be
the ability to teleport yourself anywhere you want to be. Now THAT would
rule! No more long drives for me - I'd be at home every night,
sleeping in my own bed, waking up with my kids and having a day at home
before heading off to "work" at night. Just think of the havoc that
would reign down upon the travel industries! No more airlines! No more
cars! Ah, I can't wait... That's gonna be fantastic.
Parents rock and rockers parent. I know my own punk kin would love to see a teleportation phone invented, too!
Here's the story of The Supersucker's start:
Our
story is almost impossible to believe. This band is literally a human
cartoon. We all grew up among the dead-ends and cactus needles of
Tucson, Arizona and have known each other since grade school. We
graduated from the same high school together at the same time (a school
immortalized in our song “Santa Rita High”) and we chose to play in a
band together because we liked to hang out together, not because we
were great musicians or anything. I truly believe that a band is
defined by their limitations, that what they can’t (or won’t) do is
just as important as what they can do. I guess that, in this era of
pre-fabricated, put-together-to-have-a-hit bands, we’re kind of an
aberration and I gotta tell ya that that makes us smile a little every
day.
We
formed the band in 1988 and we were initially a five piece called The
Black Supersuckers ( a name found in some quality “adult literature”
we had laying around in our impeccably clean band house!), with me on
bass, Dan “Thunder” Bolton and Rontrose Heathman on guitars, Dancing
Eagle on drums and a lead singer by the name of Eric Martin. After
firmly proving ourselves to be the best band in town we decided it was
time to get out of Tucson and try our luck somewhere else. So we
tossed a coin with heads as New Orleans and tails as Seattle. Tails it
was and in May of “89 we packed up and went north.
We
had no idea that Seattle was about to become “Rock Mecca USA”, we
just wanted to go somewhere where we could wear our leather jackets a
little more often. It was exciting and encouraging to see all of the
great bands there, doing their own thing and making some kick-ass,
aggressive rock-n-roll that we could relate to, so we started
recording immediately. After some classic “creative differences” with
our lead singer, we decided to try it as a four piece with yours truly
as the singer (I was the only one who knew all the words) and The
Supersuckers, as you may or may not know them today, were born.
