THE BUS BOYS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INTERVIEW
The Bus Boys shuffled into the nation's consciousness late in 1980 on their debut album, Minimum Wage Rock 'n' Roll. Five black guys and a chicano drummer, they came up with a cool idea—Aunt Jemima rock—and proceeded to make it work. The LP is genuinely funny and, jeepers creepers, they're from Los Angeles.
THE BUS BOYS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INTERVIEW
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J. Kordosh
The Bus Boys shuffled into the nation's consciousness late in 1980 on their debut album, Minimum Wage Rock 'n' Roll. Five black guys and a chicano drummer, they came up with a cool idea—Aunt Jemima rock—and proceeded to make it work. The LP is genuinely funny and, jeepers creepers, they're from Los Angeles. You know, the City of Laughter.
Initial reports on the Bus Boys were also impressive, if you care to believe what you read. The Wall Street Journal called them "a remarkable black band...launching a good-natured assault on the musical mainstream." Playboy likened them to "Sly Stone fronting the Talking Heads at a shindig in the Twilight Zone...making a mockery of black American stereotypes, both musically and visually." The week before I met the Bus Boys, Time called their LP "one of the year's standout albums." Nearly everything printed about them made consecutive orgasms over the fact that rock 'n' roll was being played by blacks. Or spades, as the Bus Boys call themselves in song.