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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Things of Interest:
The Hitmen

So here's a new discovery to help cme liven up this Dennis Hopper-less Saturday Night - The Hitmen!

They were kinda like an Australian Undertones!

What, you mean you don't feel like listening to an Australian Undertones right now? Fine, please yourself.

It seems The Hitmen made a TON of videos between about '79 and '83. All of them are pretty much the same, but that's ok, because all of them are pretty great.

Enter Youtube:

That said, I'm not sure "Bwana Devil" was really a good idea from anyone's point of view. I still kinda love it though - fits perfectly into that whole weird sub-sub-genre of early '80s Australian bands who seemed to be into some kinda inexplicable tiki bar/jungle adventure/caveman shtick (see just about anything by Screaming Tribesmen, Hoodoo Gurus, Lime Spiders etc).

I was just reflecting on the fact that The Hitmen's song "Pay Up Or Shut Up" would be pretty awesome if it didn't owe such a huge debt to Radio Birdman's trademark sound, when Wikipedia informed me that The Hitmen's singer Johnny Kannis actually functioned as a kinda odd backing singer/hypeman for the Birdman in his spare time, as can be witnessed in this absolutely blinding video of the band from '77;

So, er, there ya go.

Man, Denis Tek [who you see playing that nifty white guitar in the above vid] rules.

One day when Youtube's been obliterated, we'll weep blood for all these good times.