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Help me Identify This Glam Rock/New Wave? Band From The 70s/80s |
Sabu The Coconut Boy
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From: Carson, California
|  Posted: 2005-06-15 5:58 pm Permalink
I bought this large glossy photo at a garage sale this weekend. The previous owner had no idea who it is. But I know someone here on Tiki Central does. Help me out!
Sabu
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ikitnrev
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From: D.C. / Virginia
| Posted: 2005-06-15 6:11 pm Permalink
That is what you get when you cross Shields and Yarnell, Bea Arthur, and a Star Trek re-run.
(My pop culture references are helplessly out of date)
Vern
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Sabu The Coconut Boy
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Posts: 2784
From: Carson, California
| Posted: 2005-06-15 6:16 pm Permalink
Yeah Vern, I thought the guy in the front looked like a Romulan too. If I can't find out the name of the band, I can always photoshop in blue skin, antennae, and sell it on Ebay as a rare Star Trek concept photo.
Sabu
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Johnny Dollar
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From: Baltimore, Maryland, PNG
| Posted: 2005-06-15 6:18 pm Permalink
'bugaloos gone badd'
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Feelin' Zombified
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From: The Exotic Shores of Lake St. Clair
| Posted: 2005-06-15 6:20 pm Permalink
Looks like 1970's Glam Rock to me. Same eyebrows & hair as Star Treks' Romulans. Wasn't there a glam band called Vulcan??? or it could be Sweet in their sunday best...
-Z
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purple jade
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Posts: 1450
From: New Orleans
| Posted: 2005-06-15 10:28 pm Permalink
Is this them?
http://www.geocities.com/zolarx1/
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hanford_lemoore
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From: Tiki Central
| Posted: 2005-06-15 10:42 pm Permalink
PJ .... yeah that's them ... note the same double swoosh on the left guy's costume, it matches the guy on the right in this image:
excellent find.
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purple jade
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From: New Orleans
| Posted: 2005-06-15 10:45 pm Permalink
Well, Humu informs me I have a reputation to maintain... 
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Humuhumu
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From: San Francisco
| Posted: 2005-06-15 10:49 pm Permalink
Good god, how did you find them?
I wonder if we could track them down and get them to reunite for us. Just picture it...
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Humuhumu
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From: San Francisco
| Posted: 2005-06-15 10:51 pm Permalink
Holy sh1t, it's happened...
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1716&IssueNum=90
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purple jade
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From: New Orleans
| Posted: 2005-06-15 10:51 pm Permalink
I'd love to say I had this little kernel of esoteric knowledge filed away in my head, but actually I did a search for "glam rock alien" and these guys came up.
Go here for an mp3 sample:
http://music.download.com/zolarx/3600-8660_32-100634183.html
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hanford_lemoore
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Posts: 1864
From: Tiki Central
| Posted: 2005-06-15 10:57 pm Permalink
Here's their official page of their reissue, with a few MP3s:
http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=804
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Hakalugi
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Posts: 2804
From: Redondo Beach, CA
| Posted: 2005-06-15 11:05 pm Permalink
Yikes!
On the Alternative Tentacles/ Dead Kennedys' label no less.
Apparently we just missed an interview:
06/15/2005 KZSU 90.1 FM Stanford, CA
Ygarr from Zolar X will be interviewed on KZSU at 10:30pm. You can listen over the Internet at http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/ or on iTunes under the "eclectic" category.
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purple jade
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Posts: 1450
From: New Orleans
| Posted: 2005-06-15 11:14 pm Permalink
Do I get a prize?
(and I already have enough lampreys, thankyousomuch...)
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Feelin' Zombified
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Joined: Jul 15, 2003
Posts: 1328
From: The Exotic Shores of Lake St. Clair
| Posted: 2005-06-16 06:08 am Permalink
PJ knew the alien freaks?
oh gee, I am so very shocked and suprized
-Z
This 909th post sponsored (appropriately) by Roland:
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