Their album One Way Home is one of my favorite albums. Some really stellar tracks on that one.
I had “Nervous Night.” Live in Houston.
Alive and well in my memory and on my ipod.
I grew up in Trenton, NJ, right across the river from Philly, so they were pretty big. I liked them a lot, and was surprised that they never got really huge.
Joe
“All You Zombies” was pretty big where I was when it came out.
Now I have to find a copy.
Anybody remember “The Honeydrippers”?
No google, that’s cheating.
Robert Plant. “Sea of Love”
Them, and Power Station, were a tremendous disappointment to me(so-called ‘super groups’ that came out about the same time, who amounted to little).
Melodica (Melodicam?) suck. I hated the Hooters with the fire of 1,000 suns. I hated ‘the Hooters’ when they had their hits. Still do.
I was a teenager in the 80s, and I had never heard of them before - or since - one day in about 1988 when they must have come to Sydney, and they were doing a “big public appearance” in a suburban shopping centre, in a small space between the orange juice stand and a bookshop. I happened to be walking past. They’d rustled up a sufficient number of screaming 12 year-old girls from somewhere, and were busy “whisking the Hooters out a back entrance” (past the toilets and cleaner’s storeroom).
“Who?”, I thought.
Perhaps I’m starting to forget the '80s – I can’t remember The Hooters.
They were pretty big in Chicago. Steve Dahl-legendary local DJ–would play them all the time on his WLS/WLUP drive-time show. He was a big fan. I think they would sell out everytime they came through town…
They were pretty big in Chicago. Steve Dahl-legendary local DJ–would play them all the time on his WLS/WLUP drive-time show. He was a big fan. I think they would sell out everytime they came through town…
Huh?
I thought everyone knows Hooters, or at least their big hits, one of which is played by Christian groups everywhere to this day. I remember reading several articles on the band from the biggest pop magazine in Finland some 20 years ago.
I know 'em, though the only song I consciously know as theirs is All You Zombies. I’m from Germany.
I got into the Hooters, way out in NZ in 85/86.
South Ferry Road was one of my favourites.
I’m gonna have to go looking for that album, now.
Si
I like Hooters.
Don’t like the group.
Grew up in the Philly suburbs, high school from '81-'85. The Hooters were a local hit just around that time. They played in my high school gym a few times, and other local venues. They released an independant album in the Philly area which was much better than the nationally-released “first” album a couple years later. The national album was way over produced.
My high school girlfriend and I saw them a couple times when they opened for Cindy Lauper, but we’d leave when she came on. I hadn’t heard from them in years but the other day in the car I heard “All You Zombies” (the over produced version) on the radio.
A girl in my highschool used to wear a jean jacket every day and she put a Hooters bumper sticker on the back. We’d always say “nice hooters, Kris!” as she walked by. She didn’t get it.
I saw them at some small club in NYC after their first album. Show was pretty good. I remember the lead guitarist broke about 4 or 5 strings that night, and was getting frustrated with himself (or the guitars) because their road crew (maybe 2 or 3 people at most) couldn’t restring them fast enough.
Last time I was home one of the Philly stations were playing their new song. This was about 6 months ago.
I, too, remember the Hooters. My favorite of their albums is “Zig Zag.”
I was going to college in North Carolina from 1984 to 1988, heard them, saw them in concert at least once.
I remember the Hooters, but I always thought of them as sort of a one-hit wonder for And We Danced. I’ll have to check out some of these other songs.