RUBBER CITY REBELS
Akron, OH's Rubber City Rebels were yet another hot, terrific punk-era rock & roll band circa 1977 that suffered from the total lack of independent labels back then. Lacking a strong connection to New York, they never got a Sire, Warner Brothers or Mercury deal like a few other great Ohio contemporaries (Dead Boys, Devo, and Pere Ubu, respectively) until they moved to L.A. and scored a deal with Capitol so much later, in 1980, when this sound was no longer au courant. But they were surely those bands' equal, very comparable to their friends the Dead Boys, who shared their Stooges/MC5 fixation. As well, singer Rod Firestone booked dozens of such bands into their home Akron club, the Crypt, that they somehow ended up owning and managing after setting the attendance record there one night. Their sound was nails-tough garage punk, part New York Dolls, part Dead Boys, and most of all part 1973 Stooges. And they've got that fantastic dirty sound with absolute rock & roll ethos that makes so many still obsess about them and the other bands of 1977. Dig!
Somebody's Gonna Get (Their Heads Kicked In Tonight)
Paper Dolls
