Nashville Pussy Fri Feb 21

Dante's

1) They have no respect for their audience. If you think Nashville Pussy wants to entertain you, you've been hoodwinked. What's their true, real-deal agenda? They want to kick your girlfriend in the face, set her hair on fire, and take your money.

2) Passing off dumb rock as "rock 'n' roll." Ahem, rock 'n' roll is Chuck Berry and the New York Dolls and Little Richard. It's blues-based, filtered through old-time honky tonk, and then glued together with rhythm and blues. Nashville Pussy is nothing more than lazy, beer-belly Southern Dude Rock without an ounce of gut feeling, creativity or heart.

3) One word: MISOGYNY!

4) Cowboy hats, leather, and biker mustaches.

5) Naughty swear words, faux onstage lesbianism, and white trash chic is straight-up PLAYED. Go back to 1997, boys and girls.

6) "Sleaze" as a well-honed marketing scheme.

7) Song titles. Ain't nothing fresh or rebellious or even liberating about song titles like "She's Got the Drugs" or "Blowjob from a Rattlesnake." But the band, and their fans, think it is.

8) Responsible for relatively sane rocker kids dressing up like Lemmy from Motorhead.

9) They give Georgians--who are, more or less, DAMN good people--a bad name.

10) And reason #10 why this whole stinking thing should be tossed in the shitbucket drumroll THEY ARE NAMED AFTER A GODDAMN TED NUGENT SONG! The prosecution rests, your Honor. No further witnesses. Recommended sentence: two semesters in Ian MacKaye's "Understanding Artistic Aesthetics In Relation to Human Ethics" class.