The ugliest band in Austin also has had the biggest appetite too. Why, we eats more chickens than any Crowbar or Poison Idea or Leslie West of Mountain. Sweaty garage core for the masses. No shit. Beer-guzzlin', woman-chasin', drag-racin', ebonics-speakin', dope-smokin', gun-totin', TV-watchin', in-fightin', party-crashin', lunch-tossin', hookie-playin', dys-functionin', Jesus-slappin' goat ropers for the next previous millennium. Larry Flynt's favorite band.
Once upon a time, the Austin Chronicle's Raoul Hernandez had this to say about TALLBOY's "Low-Down Ho-Down" cassette (remember cassettes?):
Tallboy is a group that needs to churn out a tape/album every six months or so. Their two-chord, crash-n-burn eats up songs like a John Deere eats up fields. 'Course that means not every harvest will yield good crops, and certainly this band's last five-songer was much better than this one -- it had songs, production and singing -- but that's not the point. We need more Tallboy. That's the point.
Someone once asked what Tallboy sounds like. After much thought, our global propaganda ministry headquartered in Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky, released this description:
"An old steam locomotive made entirely of reconstituted fish bladders inflated with cat vomit colliding head-on with a morbidly-obese wax model of Edith Massey which actually looks like Yul Brynner wrestling a babyoil-slathered Captain Kangaroo with illegal breast implants from DuPont Corporation and they're both about 50 feet tall (except that Captain Kangaroo is much smallerâ”nearly microscopic). Meanwhile the entire Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs Ave Maria (and they're not even Catholic) in the foreground whilst hanging upside down from Gibby Haynes' crusty butt hairs, kinda like when ya wipe yer ass with cheap toilet paper and it rolls up real tight and hurts like a bitch to pull off. Yeah, like that."
Tallboy is in a state of advanced cryogenics at this stage.
Jerry Clower, Black Flag, The Ventures, Hawaii Five-O, Angry Samoans, Jesco White, Ramones, Charles Bukowski, The Sonics, Little Richard, The Untamed Youth, Big Black, Hee Haw, Ernie Isley, Carl Perkins, The Stooges, Buddy Holly, Don Walser, John Waters, Grand Funk Railroad, Pabst Blue Ribbon, El Duce, Captain Beefheart, Circle Jerks and various other bad influences.
Tallboy's amplification is provided by Cash America Pawn, Hoyt-Clagwell Amplification and various other sources.
100% Old School.