Anyone have any idea how long Southern Culture On The Skids has been around? Would you believe since 1983? Time flies. (Clever response: You cannot, they’re too erratic.) The current lineup of SCOTS features Rick Miller (the one constant since its inception) on guitar and vocals, bassist Mary Huff and drummer Dave Hartman. If you haven’t heard what they sound like, an educated guess that included Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Cramps, Tav Falco’s Panther Burns and Man Or Astro-Man? might be pretty close to the bone. The trio’s most recent album, Zombiefied (Kudzu), came out just in time for graves to open so the dead can have one last stagger around the countryside. Miller will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Miller: Invisible Invaders is a great ’50s sci-fi movie about invisible aliens who come to earth to use the dead to kill the living. Their plan is to inhabit dead bodies and use them to destroy the human race unless we give up our nuclear weapons. The aliens’ base just happens to be located on the moon! These really slow-moving zombies look a lot like the ones used 10 years later in George Romeo’s Night Of The Living Dead. The alien/zombies are finally defeated with a noise gun. They hate noise—it stops ‘em dead. I could see a remake where the world is rescued by Slash with a Les Paul and a Marshall stack.
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