Rock and roll wildman Eddie Spaghetti from The Supersuckers is bringing his long awaited solo show to Australia on the last weekend of June.
Eddie Spaghetti grew up in Tucson, Arizona trying desperately to ignore the country music that
floated all around him. Seems like every pick-up truck and storefront speaker was cranking out the syrupy wails of some heartbroken hick and he just wasn't having it. So, as a kid, he turned to Heavy Metal, then Punk Rock, to block out the noise.That's how his band, The Supersuckers, were born.
Formed in late '88, The Supersuckers aim was to strip away some of the pretense of late '80's Heavy Metal and put a little showmanship into the Punk scene. It was a tightrope act few bands could achieve but, by the beginning of '89, not only had the band done it, they were ready to make a move away from
the dirt roads, dead ends and dust of their hometown.
Heads was New Orleans, tails Seattle.
Tails.
And, in May of 1989, off they went.
Having no clue that Seattle was about to become "Rock City, U.S.A." for a few great years, Eddie and his grimy gang jumped blindly into a scene that had been thriving unrecognized for years. It didn't take long
however for them to find Seattle to be the perfect place to "not fit in".
The Supersuckers put out a few singles, then signed to Sub-Pop and began what has been over two decades of ass kicking, ground pounding hemi-hogging punk-n-roll.
It didn't take too long, however, for the country music that he tried so hard to avoid in his youth to start surfacing in the music Eddie was making as a young man. The foray back to the country began in 1993 with the Supersuckers side project, The Junkyard Dogs and the rare, hard to find and out of print
recording, "Good Livin' Platter" (Sympathy For The Record Industry). It wasn't county per-se, but it was close and the seed was planted.
Fast forward to 2012 and Eddie, who has released three solo albums, is set to make his first solo trip to Australia to play two shows in Melbourne at Cherry Bar in AC/DC Lane.
Saturday 30 June sees a massive double bill, double header with Tim Rogers (You Am I) and Eddie
Spaghetti tearing it up with two shows (afternoon and evening).
Listen to The Junkyard Dogs "Good Livin " from the "Good Livin' Platter" album.
