Mick Collins, you my nigga. For real, I owe you a Guinness, or three, for the glorious squall you and the Dirtbombs have brought to this black boy’s life. My brother Samson, a fellow funk/soul aficionado, put me up on your Beyond-Thunderdome 2001 covers LP Ultraglide in Black; he passed it to me admitting that […]
The Dirtbombs
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Wallop!
The Dirtbombs Rock What They Got
I REMEMBER THE WALLOP of the Dirtbombs’ ’96 EP, All Geeked Up, ’cause it meant MORE Mick Collins. Collins is the Dirtbombs’ frontman and he was important—he’d been in the Gories! Fifteen years back, along with the Gibson Brothers and a spiteful Pussy Galore, no R&B-driven garage band was more important than the Gories. It […]