Silly Post For Memorial Day---Minutemen honored The Stooges, Boris Gives Nick Drake a Shoutout!

I was watching some Three Stooges shorts today. One of the bits had the boys standing as silly dictators (this of course was during WWII). Of course, by the end of the film they suffered a cruel punishment, as you can see by the head shot above. It was then that it struck me.

Three-way tie for awesome

How did I not put two and two together sooner?
What a great homage, from a great band that had a bass player that later became a member of Iggy Pop's Stooges versions 2.0 and 3.0. And anyone who has read the superlative punk anecdotal archive Just Kill Me, by Legs McNeil knows that Ron Asheton of The Stooges used to come and visit Larry Fine of the Comedy Stooges when he was in a nursing home in the latter years of his life. The circle of life. Hakuna Matata. Or did I mean Akuna No Uta? Everybody loves a good clever tribute. At least if that everybody is me.

Check out this one:

Nick Drake: Legendary folk singer/songwriter.

And super noisy Japanese Power Trio Boris.



Pretty clever, huh?