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: Thriller was a horror anthology TV series from the ’60s. Boris Karloff hosted it. I remember watching my one and only Thriller episode on the sofa with my parents. I only got to watch one show ‘cause I could not sleep for two weeks after the viewing! The next morning after that fateful episode, I asked myself a question I still ask myself to this day: “Why did I watch that?” I think the episode that scared me so much was called The Hungry Glass and starred the future Captain Kirk: William Shatner!
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