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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 09:17 PM
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Poll question: Poll for 40-somethings - ShaNaNa or The Blasters?
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 09:25 PM
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1. ShaNaNa isn't rockabilly
ShaNaNa isn't rockabilly. Who are the Blasters?
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 09:36 PM
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2. The Blasters
were a blast, what a fun band.
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fizzana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 09:56 PM
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3. Sha-na-na was a joke
The Blasters rocked and Dave Alvin is one of the most underappreciated songwriters around.

Sha-na-na was a cartoon band while the Blasters were a lot more than mere rockabilly.

Disclosure - I worked for their management company way back when and knew the band very well.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 09:58 PM
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4. Which one?
Blasters or Sha Na Na?
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fizzana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:12 PM
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7. Blasters - can't you tell from the tone of the post
n/t
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:00 PM
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5. Get a job.
Who or what are the blasters, and what is rockabilly?

I'm 40 something...was I absent during a decade or so?
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AmandaRuth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:00 PM
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6. Are you fing kidding me???
The BLASTERS rule.

The Blasters and the Rev Horton Heat at the Showbox in Seattle, in Sept. I CANNOT WAIT
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 10:25 PM
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8. They're still performing?
I had no idea. I still listen to my tapes from 25 years ago. I like The Reverend too. Have a ball!
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:09 PM
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9. The Blasters rock. Sha Na Na is a novelty act.
eom.
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:14 PM
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10. How anyone could prefer Sha-Na-Na to the Blasters...

...truly mystifies me. The Blasters were a genuine, kick-ass roots rock band whose albums to me represent some of the finest music of the 1980s. Meanwhile, Sha-Na-Na was (and still is) nothing more than a cheesy nostalgia act.

I can only assume that more people are familiar with Sha-Na-Na because of that dumbass TV show they had in the late 1970s.

Incidentally, Dave Alvin of the Blasters is still at it, touring the country with his band and keeping the Holy Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll both alive and vibrant. You go, Brother Dave!
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 11:19 PM
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11. Wasn't that the Blasters playing in the bar in that movie
Streets of Fire? They totally Rock.

and what in the hell do Sha Na Na have to do with Rockabilly?

They are SO faux-fifties...
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