Word: zaremba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...song "Hexbreaker", the Fleshtones lay down a groove and play it to the hilt with call-and-response vocals, wild sex and harmonica by Spaeth, maniacal bass playing by the gangly Marek Pakulski, and a lot of cheerleading by Zaremba: "We always stay cool. We like it that...
Like their musical brethren, the Romances and the Cramps, the Fleshtones ransack almost everything in rock'n roll history from Little Richard and James Brown to Motown and "Nuggets" period psychedelic garage rock Vocalist Peter Zaremba--who on stage makes Mick Jagger look like Perry Como--yells his "yeah, yeah"s and "hey, hey"s with more gusto than anybody since the Kingsmen, and with just as much humor...
Most of the time, the Fleshtones do not take themselves too seriously, though on occasion Zaremba will launch into some sort of diatribe about the state of America. This is the Fleshtones at their worst, the tepid liberalism of 1981's "R-I-G-T-S"--off Roman Gods--or Hexbreaker's "New Scene": "Phony society, we reject your false values." Ho hum. "Get off my back. Let me do what I wanna do." So what...
...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...
...these critics are wrong, as the Zaremba and the boys put most of the new-fangled synth-pop bands to shame. What the Fleshtones show us is that New Wave is no more than a return, to a time before rock only made sense when the listener was heavily drugged (read: "Stairway to Heaven," "Free Bird...