Holtzclaw

ISN'T HOLTZCLAW BEST KNOWN FOR BITING THE HEAD OFF A SIX-MONTH OLD LAOTIAN INFANT? No, Holtzclaw is best known for their marathon sets and their rollicking jams. Holtzclaw has been known to perform with more than 25 band members on stage at once, sort of a southern-accented Chubawumba without the communist leanings. And what bizzare instrumentation! Like the German Art bands of the late 70's,Holtzclaw can drag out the funk from a myraid of household objects. Aside from bass, guitar and percussion, Holtzclaw offers sounds via banjos, harmonicas, stuffed squeaky penguins, battery powered Hercules swords, bling blangs, Speak'n'Say's, etc.; all sonically blended and rendered into a tasty, frothy Margarita of Sound for your sippin'/groovin' pleasure. WHAT IS HOLTZCLAW? Holtzclaw is Music, Theatre, Dance, Spectacle, per Way of Life.It's the Stones, The Who, The Cure, Ween, Zappa, NWA, Fiona Apple, Tiffany, Brandy, Bread. It' Andy Kaufman, Andy Griffith, Salt'n'Pepa, Loggins and Messina, Korman and Conway. It's George Lucas, Luke & Laura, Who Shot Jr.?, Whatever Happened to Pong? It's Lenny Bruce, Lenni Rifenstahl and The Jewish Anti-Defamation League. In fact, in a word, Holtzclaw is America. Not the America our parents lived and died for, but a new America. Founded on the belief that speech IS free and love IS all around and we knew it all the time, dammit! But it took a shit-ass rock'n'roll band to make patriots of us all. It's about time. As Charlie Daniels said: "You never did think that it would ever happen again."