When Weasels Wrestled


If it wasn't for River Trails Jr. High Wrestling Team, there may not have been a SCREECHING WEASEL. This is where we met. Spot the Weasel and the Jughead.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

I Wanna Be Naked

Image
Before our Screeching Weasel song I Wanna Be A Homosexual helped us to amazingly help others to break down, and become aware of, the division of heterosexual and homosexual in the punk scene (LGBTQ), we had a song that was most popular to play at our live shows. It was I Wanna Be Naked. After a few times of playing it live back in the late 80s, people in the audience started to strip down to their skivvies, at first provoked by Ben himself getting naked, but soon audience m embers would beat him to it. Eventually at our first “last show” at McGregor’s in the suburbs of Chicago, a group of punks we called the Polish Punks, stood in the middle of the mosh pit and stripped down to their previously prepared decorated undies. They each had a different animal covering their penises. The one I remember, of course, was an elephant and its trunk, which is obvious since the trunk so easily becomes the penis. At this show we had many more naked people (men and women) than we had had before, and ...
Read more

The Westone Guitar with the smiley faces and Benetton sticker

Image
I haven't done one of these Screeching Weasel remembrances in awhile. But my friend David just asked me a question, and this came up. It is more about the nuts and bolts and really has no emotional content. The photo is from the contact sheet I have of the House of Blues shows that took place in 2000 and 2001. I am not sure which show this is from. David: Hey John, you may have addressed this  in your album videos, but did you use the same guitar for most of the Weasel recordings? John: Up until Bark Like a Dog I used basically the same guitar, a cheap 100 dollar Westone I bought in a record store. I used that for 10 years, till it nearly fell apart. That guitar is in a personal museum at Jeff Spreitzer's house. I had a back up guitar that was a strange Gibson Telecaster, but I never used it. I eventually gave it to Andrea from The Manges. His guitar cracked on the plane ride over from Italy to Chicago. I gave it to him and it still had the setlist from the Anthem tour tape...
Read more