the atomic bombs 9.mp3

Hey guys, here's the last installment of 'The Atomic Bombs.' Jeff and his brother and a friend did the music and I did the words. Ah, they're still out there, somewhere now, those cads in the 'Bombs.' Rock and roll never died; it just got lost in the fifties.


text:
the atomic bombs 9
Christopher Savage

those who had seen
the band
play

remarked that the men
resorted to
abandon

over cool;

they were

fables brought in
sports jackets

chanting about
life under
heaven

where good kids can’t go wrong
by
burning down
trees;

those who loved
the music

would tell stories of how the singer tossed his pocket
comb into
the center of the audience
and
laughed, screaming for
everyone to chase
after it;

the atomic bombs played
a song together
as
they happened to meet up in Korea towards the end of the war;

they joked that this
was the height of the world
and ventured a gaze towards the Pacific

the atomic bombs 8.mp3

click the post title and listen in to the pentultimate chapter of 'The Atomic Bombs!'


text:
the atomic bombs 8
Christopher Savage

a lonely boy
named
saul pettigrew

first heard the reissue of the atomic
bombs’
first album in his early
teens

and didn’t recognize darren
dar

years later when he bumped into him
at a grocery store in
Texas;

the former frontman of the band
had
gray locks and
deaf eyes;

saul would have
shook
the singer’s hand

but it was too late;

the atomic bombs made an attempt
to reunite

a little after

but derrick was already
dead

and jules was
fragile
as glass;

darren, later still,
died on stage playing
new songs with his daughter

the atomic bombs 7.mp3

Hey, what's going on tonight?! I'm talking about tonight!? Howl, baby, take off your skin and howl! Here's some more Atomic Bombs to show you how.

text:
the atomic bombs 7


jules latour

was the
guitarist

for the atomic bombs;

he was a short man
and
his hair was utter
black;

he fell in love
with
a girl in California

but

after Korea he
felt he
never deserved true love;

in the war
he
had to saw the foot off
of a fellow
soldier

so the two might escape from
an oncoming assault;

later,
jules
would live in Bulgaria
and
marry a lovely village girl;

his playing style was
described as neon
bulbs crushed under the heels of a taxi
cab
but he preferred to think of himself
as silk

the atomic bombs 6.mp4

Hey guys, click on the post title to link up with the latest in lost legends of stereo!


text:
the atomic bombs 6


the fiction of their
original
drummer’s
death at the hands of
an angry crowd of
musicians

was made up by
their

true drummer

derrick unley;

he grew up in Michigan as well
and
worked as a mechanic
in Detroit
where
he met darren;

the two began writing songs
and sleeping
with the
same

girl and late one evening
they
got into a fight and fell
two
stories into a bunch of bushes;

derrick could not read or write
so
he composed with
scribbles and pictures;

he would later be killed by a speeding car
somewhere
in Germany

The Atomic Bombs 5.mp3

You know what I like about Friday's? Well, here's the next post of the audio poem The Atomic Bombs! Non-sequiturs!


text:
the atomic bombs 5


the atomic bombs
were

said to have a sound unlike
much
of
the rock that was going around in
sock
hop
manifestos and
radio

buzz bins;

instead
of
the loop of surf induced
fuzz
and
contortion,

the atomic bombs were composed of solid
riffs and
slow beats and
a monotone singer
full
of the blast and fission;

they named themselves
such

that it would inspire posters
to be hung
in
blacklit rooms

or

under caution signs

the atomic bombs 4.mp4

You didn't think we'd forgotten about those darling Atomic Bombs, did you? Words - me; music - Jeff Daily and Chris Daily and David Feil and an ipod. Get it!

text:
the atomic bombs 4


the atomic bombs’

frontman
was
named

darren dar;

he grew up
outside
of Michigan
and

read books by
Einstein
and Oppenheimer

and he left his school books in the
pool;

his mother had a flock
of red hair;

she beat him with a belt;

his father was
unlike
a block
of
ice

and refused to leave the bedroom
sometimes
when darren was
thirteen;

later
in
his teens,

darren
took off for Detroit to form a band

the atomic bombs 3.mp3

Here's the latest from that band you love to not remember. Click the post title!


text:
the atomic bombs 3


the atomic bombs
turned up in china
years

later
with
scars and bullets in their
ankles;

they played in small
bars

and hid under bridges
and

smoked cigarettes with abandon;

none ever married or
had
kids
but

there were a lot of women
coming and
going

and soon enough they were in australia

The Atomic Bombs 2.mp4

Here's the second in the series of audio poems of 'The Atomic Bombs.' Did you ever hear them play? Quite good, my friends. By the by, just click the link to hear me, Jeff, and Chris Daily give you sounds of the past (or the present (or the future!))!


text version:
the atomic bombs 2


richie salkind
was
in love
with

the songs of his favorite
band

the atomic
bombs

and he sought to find
their
lost
trail in Korea;

he
fell in love
there

and had three kids;

they wore
striped
neck

ties and danced in the evening heat;

and the air of the forlorn
washed over richie’s face

when he saw the atomic bombs again

the atomic bombs 1.mp4

Happy love day, love freaks, we love you all. To prove it, here is the first of a new series of audio poems from us to you. Words are by me, music by Jeff and his brother Chris. Got to love rock'n'roll, you know?


text version:
the atomic bombs 1


the atomic bombs
were

a rock and roll
band
from the fifties
that
wore white
pants
and

broke their guitars
over

girls faces;
they

were full of hot
gusto
and

had the loose recoil
of
an
empty pistol;

they were enlisted to fight
in
the Korean war and
disappeared
for
many years