pjm (02/02/83)
(From the current "Ampersand" (a supplement to many college papers)): Keeping to a strict nothing-scared policy, a New Jersey band called Pop'O'Pies, now h.q.'d in Frisco, has released a punk version of the Grateful Dead anthem, "Truckin'." Sacrilege, you say--but things get worse! Side two of the 415 Records EP contains the rap version of the same song. And the cover snatches Garcia & Co.'s familiar skull-and-roses motif, only to juxtapose the sacred symbology with a tabletop of mushed- up chicken pot pies. In fact, the skull has a dribble of gravy on its chin. "The guys in the Dead love the 'punk' version and they play it before rehearsals," claims Howie Klein, Frisco alternative music maven. Maybe the zombie rockers will even go as far as to cover a Pop'O'Pies original--like, perhaps, "The Catholics Are Attacking" or "Fascists Eat Donuts." Phil Mercurio (ucbvax!sdcsvax!mercurio)