@sbank, The Continental Drifter’s albums are good, and they were an even better live band. They had a residency at a club called Raji’s, located in the basement of an old hotel on Hollywood Blvd. They played every Tuesday night in the early-90’s, along with invited guest artists such as Beck and Los Lobos. Great nights of live music!
I had rubbed elbows with Peter Holsapple a few years prior, at the record release party for Brian Wilson’s first solo album. I had a spare copy of some promotional item for the album, and knowing of Peter’s long loved of Brian offered it to him. He invited me to his little bungalow on Fountain Avenue (a block off Sunset, somewhere between Tower Records and the Capitol Records building on Vine St.), so a few days later I brought over it and my girlfriend (she was a big dB’s lover. Very cool girl ;-). Peter was at the time playing keyboards with R.E.M., iirc. My girlfriend reminded him of an encounter we had with him back in ’83, in Bleecker Bobs record shop in the Village in NYC. I was looking for a certain Rockabilly compilation album, and Bob didn’t have it. Knowing Peter was a record collector, I asked him if he knew where I could find "Wild, Wild Young Women" (the album’s title). Without missing a beat, he replied "St. Marks Place?" Quick wit; St. Marks Place was a street in the Village littered with tattoo parlors, piercing salons, and punk clothes shops.
I played one of the Raji’s shows with a young singer/songwriter named Steve Tagliere, who was later in a band named Gingersol. Steve is now living and working in Texas, both solo and as a duo with his wife, also a singer. A really nice guy who loved (and probably still loves) The Replacements and Elvis Costello, he was mighty impressed by The Drifters. Everyone was!
