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HOUSE OF WHEELS
In the five years since House of Wheels got their name from
the side of a truck, the group has rolled through many
changes. Keyboards, sax and fiddle were each dropped from
the line-up at some point. Now the band is back to basics,
playing undiluted rock and roll. "It's just bass, drums, guitar
and a lot of fun," says bassist Spock. With tunes like "Hope
Chest," about adolescent girls who feel a need to enlarge their
endowments and "Exit," about all different kinds of frustration
(except sexual), House of Wheels not only rock hard, they
make solid social statements. While other SF combos that
once opened for the Wheelers go on to super-star status, the
band jams on undeterred. House of Wheels have soul and
believe in their music, says Spock. "We're serious about what
we do; this isn't some passion that's going to die in a year."
-Louis Windbourne
BLITZPEER
machinery in a city built c
gasoline. "A lot of what we do is inspired by the
machines all around us," states frontman Phil
Caviano 1 get a lot of my ideas riding
the subways, listening to the
churning of the engines, the
jackhammers outside my apartment
on 14th Street. In the summer I go out to
Raceway Park in New Jersey to listen to
the engines of the funny cars and
dragsters-they're louder and heavier
than any band you're ever gonna hear."
Bitzspeer is the sound of steel on steel,
high octane rock and roll. They're one
of the rare bands that write songs about
something they know about Cars. Check
out the raw power sputtering Road
Machine" or "Race to Win" from their
recently unleashed Bitzspeer Live Ep.
Cars were something we all grew up
with recalls Phil, who pulls double duty
as a Big Apple taxi driver. "We
were into hot rods, Big Daddy Roth
cartoons, chrome, steel-it's total
America. We like to think of ourselves as
a fine-tuned engine ready to race, ready
to perform," says Phil. Gentlemen, start your
engines-Mike Gitter
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BIG DRILL CAR
It was Halloween 1988 when four guys
walked onto the stage as Big Drill Car.
Since then, B.D.C. has whipped out pure
power punk 'n' roll tunes. Yeah, some
might compare them heavily with the
Descendants, or perhaps All, but these sim-
ilarities are vague at best and tend to
ignore the true virtues of this band. Back
around 86, Frank and Mark used to play in
M.I.A. One day, while watching 'At the
Earth's Core,' someone came up with the
name Big Drill Car. Frank picked up a
microphone and joined Mark, along with
Dan and Bob (formerly of X-1 White Man)
and spawned a small but growing follow-
ing of energy-seeking youths who bounce
and sing along at their live shows. Their
first release, CD/Cassette/Album Type
Thing, features ten pure power tunes about
guy-girl behavior. A second release, Small
Block, is basically from their original demo
tape. Recently, B.D.C. has wrapped up the
work on their third album, scheduled for
release sometime in June. It will bring the
number of available B.D.C. songs up to 26.
In the meantime, if you're lookin' for a
quick dose, check out a special, colored-
vinyl single featuring a cover of the Cheap
Trick rocker "Surrender" an obvious
choice, since it's their fave band. - M.Fo