Basic Information
Label: Factory 25
Management: Steve Doctor/Dave Springer
Members: Li'l Richie Speck-vocals, Jimmy Socket-guitar, Frankie Paradise-bass, Mel Torment-"other"guitar, TuTu-drummer 1, Abner Normal-drummer 2, Max de la Living Swing-
TuTu & the Pirates
Chicago, IL
Rock / Sub-Urban Insult Rock for Anti/lectuals
Bio
"Musically, they're straight out of inside-out punk. They are a second-generation New Wave band that begins with the Ramones, the Pistols, and Iggy and goes from there. Pretty far from there, too. So slick is their parody and accomplished their use of symbols, you'd think Flo and Eddie were back there someplace pulling the strings." -- David Witz for The Chicago Reader (April 1978)
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Press
“Considered by many to be “Chicago’s First Punk Band” (and, according to the liner notes, they took the first thrown beer bottles and ashtrays hurled from the Styx/REO Speedwagon rock crowd not ready for punk), Tutu and the Pirates’ “Sub-Urban Insult Rock for the Anti/Lectual: 1977-1979” is an evocatively smart-dumb, complex-simple document of the too-brief era of punk rock’s infancy, when no one was sure what it was, exactly, except that it was the latest, sickest mutation of snot-juveyed musical anti-socialism, and it was up to you to be creative and figure out how to dress and perform. (Mention must be made here of Frankie Paradise’s bass guitar made out of a toilet seat.) ”
Artist Stats
Fans: 14
Song Plays: 59
Visits: 283
Video Plays: 23
Widget Hits: 2
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