Punx In Parkas is a MoDulated li'l combo, from three totally different band;. The End (pure modrevival), Jamboree (psych-beat) & A.P.A (orginal 1977 punk), song
first of all, one imported thing to remember is that those versions/mixes arent the same as the one thats gonna appear on the CD, wich we hope will be avilabel during the summer of 2006...
Stockholm/Sweden June 2006
the Punx In Parkas (P.!.P) is a MoDulated li'l combo, generated from three totally different band; The End (pure modrevival from the early 1980's), Jamboree (psych-beat from mid 1980s) & A.P.A (orginal 1977 punk).
In March 2006 they transformed from a dynamic duo to a tremelous trio so that they could play live, in order to fullfill the requests from their groving incrowd of fans. the lineup today is Carl Brandt guitar/song, Patric Bergh guitar/song, Claes Fredriksson bas/song & D:r Oh No on drums, and as their very own Billy Preston (guestorganist) they've got Markas Oreglia .
They are a coverband, tributing their favs from the mid 60's like; ol' northern soul, motown, and band as the Creation, the Action, Small Faces & the Who among others. even though they do write songs of their own is it mainly the roots thats important. At the moment they are planning to record som of their own track to a swedish garage-compilation. During this summer, as i said earlier, they are about to drop their 10 track CD including "Midnite Hour", "Makin' Time" "I Keep On Holdin' On" & more and it probably gonna be called "Total Modness", for further info 'bout wich songs that will be included please go to:
http://www.myspace.com/punxinparkas
Story behind the song
BOOZE IN SPACE
This week, a million fraternity brothers rushed to join NASA. The reason:scientists have discovered beer in space. Well, not beer exactly. But they did find alcohol--ethyl alcohol, to be precise, the active ingredient in all major alcoholic drinks (antifreeze Jell-O shots, quite obviously, are exempted from this category). Three British scientists, Drs. Tom Millar, Geoffrey MacDonald and Rolf Habing discovered this interstellar Everclear floating in a gas cloud in the contellation of Aquila (sign of the Eagle, the mascot of Anheuser-Busch! Hmmmmm).
Millar and his compatriots have estimated the size of this gas cloud at approximately 1,000 times the diameter of our own solar system; there's enough alcohol out there, they say, to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. These guys are British, mind you; if you were to translate this in terms of American beer (which the British, with some justification, regard as fermented club soda), the amount of potential brewski just
about doubles.
In human terms--remember that double-keg party you threw at the end of your junior year in college (the second junior year)? Imagine throwing that same party, every eight hours, for the next 30 billion years. You'd STILL have beer left over. And boy, would YOUR bathroom be a mess! Simply put, no one could ever drink 400 trillion trillion pints of beer, except maybe P.!.P fans.
The sheer volume of all this alcohol begs the question of how it managed to get out there in the first place. Despite the simplifying effect it has on the human brain, ethyl alcohol is a reasonably complex molecule: two carbon atoms, five hydrogen atoms, and a hydroxyl radical, all cavorting together in beery camaraderie. It's not a compound that is going to spontaneously arise out of the cold depths of space. It can lead to speculation: What is this cloud?
1. It's God's beer. After all, He worked for six days creating the
universe, and on the seventh day, He rested. And after you've had a hard week at the office, don't YOU grab a beer? Since man is made in God's image, it could be that this cloud is the remaining evidence of the first, best Miller Time.
2. It's Purgatory ("400 trillion trillion bottles of beer on the wall, 400
trillion trillion bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around, three
hundred ninety-nine septillion, nine hundred ninety-nine sextillion, nine hundred ninety-nine quintillion, nine hundred ninety-nine quadrillion, nine hundred ninety-nine trillion, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine, bottles of beer on the wall!")
3. Proof of an undeniably highly advanced but chronically dipsomaniac alien society. This particular theory is shaky, however. It's reasonable to assume that if the aliens were going to construct a nebula of alcohol, they'd also have large clouds of Beer Nuts and pretzels nearby for snacking. Advanced spectral analysis has yet to locate them.
The truth of the matter, however, is far more prosaic. In the middle of this gas cloud is a young and no doubt quite inebriated star. As the star heats up and contracts, sucking the dust and gas of the cloud into a smaller area, complex molecules form as a result of greater interaction between the elements. Ethyl alcohol forms on small motes of dust in the cloud, and then, as the motes angle in closer towards the star and heat up,the alcohol is released from the motes in gaseous form. And there you have it--an alcohol cloud.
Or, as Dave Bowman ("2001: A Space Odyssey") might say, "My God! It's full of booze!"
Enough with the science lesson, you say. Just tell me how to GET there! Sorry, Grope--you can't get there from here. The gas cloud (which, by the way, has the utterly romantic name of "G34.3") is 10,000 light years away: 58 quadrillion miles. Even if you hijacked the shuttle and headed out with thrusters on full, by the time you got there, the guy in Pu
