....and it was on this date, May 1 in 1965, that Spike left the building. With his band The City Slickers, Spike fused music with satire on a mass scale, for the first time. Which means he blazed the trail on which Frank Zappa, Weird Al Yancovic, Kinky Friedman & the Texas Jewboys, and (unknowingly) Barry Manilow have tread. Spike infused amazing sound effects, tempo abberations, and contrapuntal comedy arrangements into his music. He was QUITE popular, and even had a TV variety series or two, or three.
The above quote, Spike uttered when he folded The City Slickers in 1961, saying things had "gone beyond satire." I cannot imagine but would LOVE to see/hear how he'd react to "things" in this-here 21st century. No kidding. He'd laugh, cry, and die all over again......right after witnessing the nightly news, and perhaps getting a taste of "Survivor," the Butthole Surfers, "Pulp Fiction," our current sitting President, cruise control, clumping kitty litter and Viagra.
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