![]() Surf band Los Straitjackets are particularly associated with the outfits, and The Bucky Rage’s adoption of the look fits with their obvious affection for the music of that time and place. These Glasgwegian garage punks have a penchant for Mexican wrestling masks, an affectation which appears to have infiltrated garage/punk aesthetics through the late 70s/early 80s LA Chicano punk scene, perhaps popularised in the UK by the cult ‘Love and Rockets’ punk comics written by the Hernandez brothers. I suspect that the same is true for The Bucky Rage- they sound like a band that thrives on entertaining a bar packed with boozed-up punters intent on having a good time, in the tradition of countless 60s US garage bands who would grind out ‘Louie Louie’, ‘Gloria’ and every Bo Diddley song they could think of as the beer kegs were drained at student fraternity parties. In a recent interview with Louder Than War’s Guy Manchester, legendary road rat bass king Mike Watt revealed that he views albums as flyers for gigs, the live experience being the main focus for him. Louder Than War’s Gus Ironside goes 12 rounds with berserk Mexican-flavoured garage-punks The Bucky Rage and emerges bruised and battered, but exhilarated. Rating: 6 Buckfast margaritas, 8 Desperados and a dozen Kola Kube shots … or: 8/10
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