Blog: Rock Town Hall

Mom threw me out 'til I get some pants that fit. Wearing the right jeans at the right time have long been a crucial element to rock 'n roll stardom. It may have been a passage from Clinton Heylin 's excellent oral history of proto-punk, From the Velvets to the Voidoids , that's stuck with me all these years, but I recall cracking up at a comment by David Thomas of Pere Ubu regarding his inability to ever fit into cool jeans, not to mention his parents' complete lack of interest in [...]