“Have you seen the Pyramid Building Syndrome these days? Seems to be the big thing right now. When there’s no seating, they just pile up on each other’s shoulders higher and higher. Some guy fell off the top of one last week and knocked himself a good one. They just passed him along overhead.. .1 saw him float off into the darkness, don’t know what happened to him. He must have eventually reached the end.” Guitarist Billy Gibbons was describing the latest activities of Lemming Nation at a Z.Z. Top concert, the band whose towering swastikas of sound are currently the number one draw on the search-and-destroy circuit. “When we headlined that show in Austin with 80,000 people, they started the biggest one ever. Some poor girl was stuck way up on top, must’ve been the 80,000th person. Never saw her again after she fell either.”

The Pyramid Syndrome is just a surface sign of the slavish momentum that’s been building up behind the Z’s,