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2002? - Crazy Lemon
This live and gigging Stornoway outfit qualify as a spinoff on 2, no 3, counts:

  1. They've got Etheridge Lockjaw Jones Ist on bass
  2. He's got them playing "Hi Heel Sneekers" in their set. This is possibly the first time in 20 years and as many bands that Etheridge has transplanted a Subterraneans number.
  3. Even better, they do a Sonics cover - possibly the first band to do so in Lewis since Memphis Louie & The Rockin Firebirds of Death called it a day in 1985. OK it's "Have Love Will Travel" which strictly speaking is by Richard Berry (the guy who wrote Louie Louie) but it's the Sonics' version that Crazy Lemon must be doing because that's the one in the Land Rover advert.

Etheridge Lockjaw Jones reports from a packed Lewis upstairs...

"Crazy Lemon is - 

Costello - dodgy moustache (Ken Livingstone, Freddy Mercury)
Phillip - used to be one of the coves with flares in Island Express
Richard - Ronald Villiers lookalike, owns a grand piano
The Bass Player - taught the rest of them Hi Heel Sneekers

Essentially it's a blues/rock outfit having fun on a Saturday night in the Lewis or Sea Angling. Managed to wean Costello of that country-gaelic mush. I don't think we do any other 'Subterranean'
numbers but maybe we should"

...dam' right. A little bit of "Wherewolf" would be just the thing at the Sea Angling, and it probably wouldn't be too hard to persuade Costello to have a go at "Your Love Is a Chain Gang" either.

The Crazy Lemon thing could well be a Joe Ely reference, but Etheridge doesn't say.