I saw the Meteors pick a fight with a poor fan in the audience - and that wasn't the scary part. I recently saw Ozzy Osbourne live (I think he was live, I mean he did move and sort-of sang, but he looked like a corpse). As for them being the scariest band on the world, I don't know. Among other goodies for the dedicated fan who already has all of Deadbolt's albums (I imagine there must be at least a dozen of them fans) this CD includes previously unreleased live and studio tracks, the craziest Burt Bacharah tribute ever "Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head" and a couple of songs ("Hang Em' High", "Stanger's Theme") from their alter egos The Strangers 1800 who perform exclusively music from old Western movies. Sample lyric: "Two antique dealers in a SUV proceeded to cut me off/I followed them downtown to one of them artists' lofts/One of the guys came to the door, he said "Hi you must be Mitch"/I said "no" I punched him in the teeth and said "I'm a truck driving son of a bitch"/Aw uck driving son of a bitch/Chain smokin', baby chokin' truck driving son of a bitch". Valdez?" and hillarious hard-boiled country "Truck Driving S.O.B.".
As I said before, their songs sound more or less the same (you'll find more variation on a Ramones LP) but if I had to choose my favourites those would be the exotica flavored/themed "Tiki Man" and "Zulu Death Mask", rockabilly "Who the Hell Is Mrs. Reputedly live gigs often degenerate into good-natured(?) exchange of abuses between them and their audience, punk-rock style. On the live "You Don't Want to Know Me" they insult a member of the audience for looking like a grunge rocker. It's not just hippies though, they have a bad word for everyone. on the (previously unreleased) opener "Go Tell Alice" they fantasize the Haight hippie massacre of the title set to the tune of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit": "One bullet makes you slower/the next one makes you dead/and a bottle of patchouli/is crushed upon your head/Go tell Alice/that I'm not through yet.".
The lyrics are basically recounting supernatural horror tales, or stories of crime and decadence from the gutter, always violent and misanthropic e.g. after he's been dead for a dozen or so years. I imagine that's about how Johhny Cash should sound now i.e. They've dubbed their style "voodoobilly", but if that's not enough for you imagine a mutant strain of psychobilly with surf guitars and lots of country twang - especially in the half-spoken/half-sung vocals. "Haight Street Hippie Massacre" is a Best-Of - which, seeing as all this band's songs sound the same, just means it includes more tracks than the average Deadbolt CD.
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