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‘Hell is Christmas at the 7-11′ on the Sunday holiday tune

‘Christmas at K-Mart’ by Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band!

Btw, folks, the band’s ultra-rare and legendary LP, “Left for Dead,” recorded in 1979 but not released on vinyl until 1987, was reissued this month on CD with two previously unreleased tracks, “The Shah is Gone,” and “Space Ship Boogie.” This is a marvelous and preposterous album, a spontaneous blues jam that was unwritten, unrehearsed and recorded in one take over a course of a night. The band’s two founding members, Root Boy Slim (Foster MacKenzie III) and Bob Greenlee, who met as frat brothers at Yale, are no longer with us. (But their DKE cohort, George W. Bush, who banned them from the frat house for life, is). You can buy it here. Below is a photo of my LP cover.

Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band, “Left for Dead” Kingsnake Records, 1987.

 

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  1. don | December 23, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Anyone that would associate hell with Christmas needs to read the Bible and learn what Christmas is all about. If it was not for Jesus birth there would be no Christmas. Hell awaits those that don’t receive Jesus as their personal Saviour

  2. wayne goodman | December 23, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    Would this be pammala’s theme song?
    :)

  3. gdad | December 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    Merry Christmas to you, too, don.

  4. Old blue | December 24, 2012 at 11:01 am

    Don would probably be offended by Spinal Tap’s “Christmas with the Devil”. I am just guessing here.

  5. Kristen | December 24, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    I bet Don is a ton of fun at dinner parties.

  6. John Wilburn | December 24, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    don:

    “Anyone that would associate hell with Christmas needs to read the Bible and learn what Christmas is all about. If it was not for Jesus birth there would be no Christmas. Hell awaits those that don’t receive Jesus as their personal Saviour”

    But be careful; objectively reading the Bible will lead to figuring out hell for what it really is – a way scare and fearmonger children out of freethinking and into believing what the parents want them to.

  7. Warren | December 24, 2012 at 10:29 pm

    Personal saviour is one thing, but what about those Lynchburg careerists who accept Jesus as their corporate saviour? Up or down?

  8. Justin True | December 24, 2012 at 10:47 pm

    Tell us, Don. What does the Bible say about Christmas? If you don’t mind please include which of the more than 450 English copies you will be reading too much into.

    Jesus the Nazarene may or may not be a real man. But I am fairly certain the Jesus Christ you speak of is a Greek mythical being to make an attempt at making the Abrahamic God a less tyrant and more of a make believe best friend.

    Besisdes, your Christmas holiday you celebrate is stolen from the pagans anyway.

    Its quite funny that Christians worship a person that because of a mistranslation he is considered born of a virgin. But I ask you Don, what is more plausible, that a Jewish woman should lie about her sexual transgressions, or that your God should suspend the law of nature to have himself born into this world to suffer a painful death for something that he created?

    Personally, I don’t believe any of it happened. For anyone today to believe that is suffering a hell right now. To believe such a story and torcher yourself and children in such a way is hell.

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