![]() If someone’s never heard your band, how do you describe what you sound like? In the early 1990s I used to go to a ton of shows and I used to audio record them.This is a fuller (but still edited for brevity) version of an interview I did with Teenage Bottlerocket’s Ray Carslile which I turned into an article for the Manitoban (please go and read that version here). They used to send me records to review in my fanzine, Spontaneous Combustion.Ī much younger me would have been able to tell you which of the two it was but. I have some of his soundtrack work its really varied, a good listen.Ĭruzados first LP is great, polished but with some excellent songs.īut I have fallen for them harder than ever because of the Internet. Tito is still with Tito and Tarantula, they toured Europe a couple of months back. I actually think the second album is better than the first, its more varied and has more character IMO. ![]() In fact, he played the role of Hammy, on PeeWees first televised HBO special back in the early 80s. That was one of the movies that had Traci Lords in when she was 16, so it may be an unmovie now. Had I known, I would have tried to track him down post-show for an interview. I do know Tito was in a band called Tito and the Tarantulas in the not too distant past. I do not know what the other members of the band did or what any of them are doing now. I do know that this band is LONG overdue for a reissue and there in new generations of punk and music fans in general missing out on some great tunes. I imagine they corrected this error when they printed up more recordssleeves and went with the yellow paper for the cover instead.īoth of these songs would later be re-recorded and one appeared on each album. ![]() ![]() The one that I believe to be the first pressing has a white sleeve and they omit the band name from one side of the record. The first release on the label would be this two song single. They put out their first single on Slash Records, which is now considered a classic, and rightfully so. ![]()
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