In honor of his 60th Birthday, it’s a tribute to the music of Lex Dallas, as well as his 80’s New Wave band, The Scrambles.
Sorry – there are no shownotes or chapters available for this episode, but I owe my thanks to the following people:
Randy Jordan of The Instance and FilmSack
Andy Milder of Weeds
C.C. Chapman of Accident Hash
Dan Klass of The Bitterest Pill
Matthew R.
Clinton Alvord of Comedy4Cast
Scott Johnson of FrogPants Studios
Chuck Tomasi of Technorama
John Bell from thebafry.com
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Ha, ha. Very funny.
A young girl's discovery of… well, who knows what… !
OMG! I loved The Scrambles! I got to see them at the Exit/In in Nashville back in 1986 on their "Willy IS Free" tour, and it was absolutely the best show I'd ever seen. They even did a cover of Stillwater's "You Had to Be There" that night. I remember that most of my friends thought I was an idiot for going to see The Scrambles instead of Steel Dragon at Municipal Auditorium that night. My friends just didn't get Lex's vision.
Frustration is entering "lex dallas" into the search field at Google and seeing the first few results: airline travel from Lexington, Kentucky to Dallas, Texas.
Let's hope Brian is able to spread the story of Lex and the Scrambles a little bit farther.
Sorry, I didn't quite get it. Is there some significance to "Lex Dallas" or is this just a made-up artist?
Keith, April Fool's.
Another great annual episode Brian. Sorry to say that Lex had passed me by in the UK (even in spite of the influence he obviously had on the Dick Van Dyke impersonator before the end credits). Happy AFD!
Great show Brian, but I can't help but be disappointed that you didn't cover Lex's time with his brother Steve. The evolution from Deathtöngue to Billy and the Boingers simply wouldn't have happened without Lex's input.
Oh yeah, and that penguin plays a mean guitar!
Tuba. They were a three-piece with the cat playing lead tongue. I've still got one of their 45s around somewhere – "U Make Me Sick But I <heart> U". http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/Ricejocky/…
And that penguin plays a mean guitar!
This episode sent me looking for a cover of the Wesley Willis track. I found the version by Baboon Torture Division…
<shudder>
I was fooled at first, but when I heard that many call-ins with stories about some band I'd never even remotely heard of, I was like "huh? wait a minute, this has to be april fools". Pretty good one brian! Next year you should do something like "Had Buckner & Garcia not died of a drug overdose, they might have big artists after their hit (pac-man fever). Here are some rare unreleased bootleg tracks by this band that never made it to an released album, starting with (lunch-time, it's burgertime)"
I don't think anything has topped Lex's all swing album, "Lex Swing" from 1982. Genius from start to finish.
The joy of these things is that they aren't put up to iTunes until the afternoon of the second, and you rarely listen to them until the third. Which is close to 45 hours after noon on the first. So nice try, but somewhat dated.
Grouch.
Bah! Humbug!
Bravo Brian. I was well over half way through and thinking to myself, "this must be the worst Coverville ever, what was Brian thinking" before I caught on. Didn't help that I was listening to the show on April 5 after updating my iPod. I love the way that you kept saying stuff like, "as everyone knows". I was just thinking that your encyclopedic music knowledge had led you to assume everyone knew of Lex and his legacy. The comment about the second most popular Karaoke song was classic and had me exclaiming out loud, "What!?". I was actually getting angry about the lack of music and the multiple "testimonials" when you finally played the Wesley Willis and it hit me what was going on. Well done, sir.
Totally got me… Until I looked at the date I was thinking "Worst Coverville Episode Ever" in a Comicbookguy voice to myself.
Well played, you got me.
Like others I was listening to this after AFD, so some of the impact was lost on me, I came to the site to check on "Rock and Roll Macdonalds" and started reading the comments…….
*Facepalm* I am such an idiot!!
Well done Brian!!
-C!
Very well done! I thought I was losing my mind until it occurred to me to look at the release date of the podcast.
I'm a bit of an idiot. I'm also almost 2 months behind. So I really didn't get the joke until, lime Michael Smith, I thought to look at the release date.
"Like," not "lime." Obviously.