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2002? -
Crazy Lemon
This live
and gigging
Stornoway outfit
qualify as a
spinoff on 2, no
3, counts:
-
They've got
Etheridge
Lockjaw
Jones Ist
on bass
-
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.
-
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.