MEAT TO THE BEAT
Doin it in roadie with Blondie & Meat Loaf.
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-MeatLoaf
AUSTIN, TX—Talk about incongruity. Here we are speeding down a Texas highway, sun blazing overhead. Were in a van, naturally—the only way to travel here—and we couldnt be a more unlikely group of passengers. In the front sits a Mexican-American Teamster, smiling, happy to be driving us around. Next to him is Blondies Jimmy Destri, looking out the window and laughing at hand-scrawled signs promising "TURKEY SHOOT THURSDAY." In the back seat, lead guitarist Chris Stein fiddles with his grey cowboy hat and looks closely at my beatenbut-still-functioning cassette recorder. At his right sits this lonely Detroit boy, representing CREEM and recovering from heavy night of Texas-style beverage consuming.
And were on our way to Montgomery Wards. To buy a gun.