229. BLANK GENERATION (Richard Hell) - Another good song for a band just starting up - simple and catchy.
230. TRYING TO GET TO YOU (McCoy, Singleton) - I was kind of a late-comer to Elvis but I always dug this song. Over the years I've tried it a lot of different ways with a lot of different bands, including a few incarnations of Static Cling.
231. LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER (Draheim) - Hard & funky..."Your name-tag says you are the co-pilot's daughter / But I think you're more like a lamb to the slaughter".
232. I WANNA BE YOUR DOG (The Stooges) - Of course.
233. HOT PARTY (Draheim) - "I wipe my hands on the horse's neck / I belt you with this song / You who look not for reason / I want your horizontal tongue"
234. POLICE CAR (Draheim) - From my solo repertoire, then Chicago Cling did it for awhile. No memory of what it sounded like.
235. EVERYBODY'S GOT A DOG (McAvoy, Draheim) - Definitely belongs on the "Steve McAvoy's Greatest Hits" LP - maybe as the lead track. The airplanes do go up and down.
236. LITTLE AUDREY (Erangey, Draheim) - "Boo hoo hoo..." Mostly Tony's.
237. SHAKIN' STREET (MC5) - This is the only song that was simultaneously on the active song lists of both Static Cling and Helen Wheels & The Skeleton Crew.
238. WHO DO YOU LOVE (Ellis McDaniel) - Way back in Uptown Dogfood this Bo Diddley standard was one whole set. With Helen Wheels we performed a considerably shorter version.
239. NIAGRA FALLS (Wheels, Morrongiello) - A Helen song that pre-dated The Skeleton Crew. We learned it and Helen did finally record it for her "Archetypes" disc with Al Bouchard's Brain Surgeons backing her.
240. 'TIL THE END OF THE DAY (Ray Davies) - Performed by Chicago Cling, early NY Cling and H.W. & The Skeleton Crew.
241. SECRET GUNN WALK - "Secret Agent Man" and "Walk Don't Run" were sometimes played in a medley along with Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn Theme".
242. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (Elmer Bernstein) - I had no memory of this when I recently came across it on an old set list but figured it was probably the Clash song. Then I came across it on an old rehearsal tape and it turns out that it was indeed the theme song from the movie with Karen Porter carrying the melody on the Farfisa.
243. THE HOLLOW MEN (Eliot, Draheim) - Here's another one that I forgot. When I watched "Apocalypse Now" the other day and heard Kurtz reading T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" I remembered that I once put that poem to music and that the Chicago Cling played it out...once, at a club called Tut's.
244. I FALL TO PIECES (Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard) - We tried this back when Cathi was just a good singer and couldn't quite pull it off. She is now more up to the task and the song works much better.
245. IF 6 WAS 9 (Hendrix) - We have totally deconstructed this one. We used Bootsy Collins' hip-hop-ish version as a jumping off place but then really tried to make it more our own.
246. MR. PITIFUL (Otis Redding, Steve Cropper) - Great old Otis Redding song that lends itself well to a rock & roll treatment. We wrote / added a second bridge, a guitar solo and a short bass solo. And I'm not aware of any other rock band covering this one (though I'm sure there must be somewhere).
247. WOMAN TO WOMAN (J. Napolitano) - Ron picked out this Concrete Blonde song.
248. IN THE PINES (Alan Riggs) - Heard and loved this bluegrass ballad on a Charlie Louvin record. Nirvana and Grateful Dead have also covered it - but we do it as an up-tempo rockabilly raver.
249. MADRE DIOS (Draheim) - My attempt to write a spaghetti-western instrumaental. And it turned out pretty damned good. Farfisa lead.
250. GO MENTAL (Ramones) - Just remembered that the Chicago Cling used to do this song. We did not do it Ramones-style with the constant guitar downstrokes, but rather broke it up with lots of drum fills.