In other news, Jesus is drunk today.
Henley appeared with Nixon on stage once, so I think he got the joke.
You can’t cow a dead milkman.
Wanna see them explode/in every zip code…
Did anyone else play Redneck Rampage, a silly FPS of the late 90s which was, I think, made by the same people who made Duke Nukem? 12 year old me and my friends loved that game, and I kept playing it well into the 2000s. Mojo Nixon’s music was all over it. I remember you could play the game disc as an audio CD (common with games of the time) and I listened to it frequently.
What a sudden and sad passing. I’m sure the first track I heard of his was “Elvis is Everywhere” then he had two tracks on an Enigma Records sampler. Saw him open for Dread Zeppelin in 1991 (if you can remember Dread Zeppelin, your back is probably hurting on the regular). It was a wild, crazy party that at one point had a crew member pretending to screw an inflatable sheep onstage (while the star held up a sign saying “Mojo sez fuck ewe!”). I still have the set list he signed to me. Gonna be falling down a fun YouTube rabbit hole tonight, I’m sure.
I texted my coworker about Mojo’s death, the one whose face he ground on. She said “May he rest in peace.”
Well fuck me, I always thought it was Elvis eats boats. That’s why they disappear. Made sense to me. But it’s needs, not eats.
I’m gonna keep singing my lyric.
Those specialty cruises are apparently very lucrative for the artists. Fun and a good payday for just a couple days work.
Looks to me like essentially a floating music festival.
Where else would you go if you were looking for the Sailing Elvis?
Saw him play with Presidents of the USA back in the 90s, an incredibly fun show and one of the few people that could out-ham the PUSA.
I’ve seen both The Dead Milkmen and Dread Zeppelin, but I can’t remember who opened for either of them. If it had been Mojo Nixon, I’m sure I would have remembered it. He will be missed.
There have been a few that I’m very tempted to go on, but my wife has very different taste than I do, and would probably hate it
I saw him play right after Clinton was elected in 1992. He declared on stage:
“I’m proud as hell we got us a dope smokin, sax playin, wife swapping president in the White House! He’s full of puss, and he’s one of us!!”
I just popped into say, “I ain’t gonna piss in no cup unless Nancy Reagan gonna drink it up.”
Were the Floating Doo Doo Balls playing this floating music festival? I heard from Mr. Club Owner that they don’t draw too many people.
One of my favorite rant-monologues of his that I heard on the radio was his thesis that Jeff Gordon was a robot designed by yankees to bring down NASCAR from the inside.
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His long-time buddy Country Dick Montana of The Beat Farmers went out essentially the same way. Larger than life characters, the both of them.
RIP.