03.06.10
Bumblebees for Jesus
The SPIN magazine backpages are in Google Books as noted here mid-point through last month.
If you’ve delved the sidebar links you’ll know that at one time DD wrote rock criticism. And I did it on and off for a long time until it became nothing but 50-word advertising blipverts with everyone who could be appropriately supercilious about the release schedule for the week banned in favor of industry tail-chasers.
I wrote about Stryper back in 1988. They wore stage wear with the color scheme of bumblebees. Perhaps it was to get across the message they were as the industrious pure-hearted worker insect, toiling without complaint — for Jesus. One of their records was called The Yellow and Black Attack.
They were made for me to insult.
Brian Carson, drummer for the Highway Kings, really loved Stryper. Paradoxically, it never impeded his playing rock ‘n’ roll for bikers, power drunks and miscellaneous scum in dive bars.