miami motel tragedy

flying colors glammy hammy hard rock album out of late 70s Tejas. maybe most famed for their stunning take on neil young's "after the gold rush" which is a standout for sure, but most of their originals are aces up the sleeve as well. really the only boner is the title track that kicks the album off, but then after that its stoned redneck rave-ups with varying degrees of gritty subject matter and inebriated pseudo-wave. it's straddling alot of fences for sure, but it mostly soars in kind of a proto-art-punk-gone-AOR way. they were hip cats for sure, and remind me of lurking characters in Linklater's Slacker, or if the Meat Puppets' flashier older brothers had tried to score a record deal but ended up goofing around a little too much and fucking themselves luxuriously, blowing tons of money on cocaine and hookers, back on the street with essentially a fantastic demo and a bloody nose. simultaneously goofing on rock star dreams, and declaring their place in the rock'n'roll lifestyle, this is one for the '79 year book, and darned if you can't feel the 80s looming mere minutes away ...