Popdose: Lost in the ’90s: Tuscadero | Popdose
MichaelFortes
· 1 year ago
Awesome, thanks for this post! 'The Pink Album' was one of my top favorites of '94. Got lots of play on WSMU in North Dartmouth. As good as that record is, their live performances at that time were even better. I know I saw them at least once in Providence, maybe twice. Nice people too, from what I recall. I never did pick up 'My Way or the Highway' though...
I believe Fonzie was hot for Pinkie, not Leather, if I'm remembering correctly?
Matty
· 1 year ago
Yes! I guess I thought Fonzie went out with the cooler one who was older. Seems he went out with Pinky who wsa the cooler Leather's older sister. But I get he banged them both. I mean, he's FONZIE!!!
anon
· 1 year ago
this is quite a surprise. finding tuscadero on hypem. i miss tuscadero. wish you had also put up latex dominatrix. thanks for nancy drew though :)
Leather Lite
· 1 year ago
Oh my god! Glad someone else feels EXACTLY the same way I do about his band. I graduated college and moved to DC in Fall 93 and I think I saw every show Tuscadero ever did! I even got my friends in the midwest into them! Still SO bitter that they are no longer making music. I always felt a kinship with Leather myself, so "Leather Idol" and by extension "Latex Dominatrix" are my faves, but "Nancy Drew" is a class and I actually know someone who fits the description in "Dime A Dozen" :p. The Pink Album remains one of the most perfect albums ever! Thanks for the update. I google once in awhile about them, serious girl crush on the girls! Glad to finally get something back on my searches.
Matty
· 1 year ago
Me too! Here's a little addendum on what the other folks are up to:
Margaret is living in Brooklyn too. She formed the band Hot Pursuit (http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1...) with Evelyn from Teenbeat label-maters "Blast Off Country Style" and she also spent some time with Absolutely Kosher's "+/-" contributing some bass and vox as well as various other music projects. Her guitar is not getting too dusty.
Questionable info she emailed me via Melissa is that "melissa and i met in the coast guard, originally. Jack and Phil were the MPs that got us kicked out when we went AWOL." and she's currently into "Bob the Builder". I choose to believe both implicitly.
Phil is hitched and doing really well working in the DC area for a company that will ensure he never gets lost on his way to a gig with his current band, the Spoils of NW (http://www.myspace.com/spoilsofnw). He also played with a band called the Peter Hayes Experience. You put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and see what you can dig up on them!
Drummer Jack has put down the drum sticks in order to better hold graphite, pastels and probably more often, the mouse and Photoshop pen tool as a DC based editorial and advertising illustrator. IIRC, the rereleased Pink Album cover was Jack's handywork. I would try to find a link to that cover but I'm at work and it's shocking what google images comes up with when you search ANYthing with the word "pink" in it. See some of his current work at http://jackhornadyillustration.com/ . His stuff is THE cute. He's married to his longtime sweetheart and has a gorgeous little girl who will be sure to get the cautionary lowdown on AWFUL boys from her well-schooled Poppa.
In some fact checking from Miss Melissa, I should correct that Hollywood Handsome was the only official video ever made - I don't know why I remember them for those two songs off My Way or the Highway, but i do remember seeing posters and press materials at the time of the release. I've been trying to locate my copy since I forgot how good Mutiny is as well as some of the other tunes. XOXOXO Matty
Peter H.
· 7 months ago
Just a small fix to the above -- Phil's fine bass skills are/were featured in the Spoils of NW and the Peter Hayes *Condition* (not The Peter Hayes Experience).
Doug
· 1 year ago
Actually, the Teenbeat release of "The Pink Album" wasn't produced by Mark Waterman...he was brought in for the Elektra release. Rob Christiansen, Mark Robinson, and Tuscadero themselves are credited with producing the original (which I totally loved!). To be honest, I think the re-release was a bit too produced which causes it to lose some of its edge.
And the same over-production is what made "My Way or the Highway" somewhat of a stinker. TIckled Pink and Dr. Doom were live staples for months before their release on the album...and they sounded great live. Even the indie-released single of Tickled Pink sounded better than the album version (for which they inexplicably added the fiddle in the background!).
It's too bad because I loved Tuscadero - and like Leather Lite, was at virtually every show they played (at least from 95-98).
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i miss tuscadero. wish you had also put up latex dominatrix.
thanks for nancy drew though :)
Margaret is living in Brooklyn too. She formed the band Hot Pursuit (http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1...) with Evelyn from Teenbeat label-maters "Blast Off Country Style" and she also spent some time with Absolutely Kosher's "+/-" contributing some bass and vox as well as various other music projects. Her guitar is not getting too dusty.
Questionable info she emailed me via Melissa is that "melissa and i met in the coast guard, originally. Jack and Phil were the MPs that got us kicked out when we went AWOL." and she's currently into "Bob the Builder". I choose to believe both implicitly.
Phil is hitched and doing really well working in the DC area for a company that will ensure he never gets lost on his way to a gig with his current band, the Spoils of NW (http://www.myspace.com/spoilsofnw). He also played with a band called the Peter Hayes Experience. You put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and see what you can dig up on them!
Drummer Jack has put down the drum sticks in order to better hold graphite, pastels and probably more often, the mouse and Photoshop pen tool as a DC based editorial and advertising illustrator. IIRC, the rereleased Pink Album cover was Jack's handywork. I would try to find a link to that cover but I'm at work and it's shocking what google images comes up with when you search ANYthing with the word "pink" in it. See some of his current work at http://jackhornadyillustration.com/ . His stuff is THE cute. He's married to his longtime sweetheart and has a gorgeous little girl who will be sure to get the cautionary lowdown on AWFUL boys from her well-schooled Poppa.
In some fact checking from Miss Melissa, I should correct that Hollywood Handsome was the only official video ever made - I don't know why I remember them for those two songs off My Way or the Highway, but i do remember seeing posters and press materials at the time of the release. I've been trying to locate my copy since I forgot how good Mutiny is as well as some of the other tunes. XOXOXO Matty
And the same over-production is what made "My Way or the Highway" somewhat of a stinker. TIckled Pink and Dr. Doom were live staples for months before their release on the album...and they sounded great live. Even the indie-released single of Tickled Pink sounded better than the album version (for which they inexplicably added the fiddle in the background!).
It's too bad because I loved Tuscadero - and like Leather Lite, was at virtually every show they played (at least from 95-98).