>
>
>>They definitely look like a bunch of metalheads, but the
>>Hellacopters are a garage-punk band ... and an awfully good one. Their songs
>>are short and to the point, and they eschew the endless guitar solos of
>>metal bands. Their musical precursors are the MC5 and the Dictators rather
>>than Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
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>
>This is MORE like it, Greg!  :-)  my fetish for 70's  hard rock is
>well-known for 6/7 years on this list occasionally.......and moving from
>Starz to the best fricking rock band in the world, The Hellacopters is only
>going to elicit warm smiles.
>
I keep seeing the usual list of influences - MC5 and KISS seem obvious 
enough after repeated listenings to HIGH VISIBILITY. But I seem to be 
the only one hearing the suggestion of Southern Rock. I swear, in places 
it's like 1978 and I'm listening to Skynrd, Blackfoot, and Molly 
Hatchet. But I've never seen any "official" reference to this genre by 
the band or those writing about them.

Is it just me?

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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the 
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in 
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing 
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice 
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, 
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing 
from your heart. 

                    - John Millington Synge