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A Far Cry From Being Scene Scavengers The Buzzards Maintain Their Position Circling The Top Of Detroit’s Punk-Garage-Trash-Rock Heap. Sporting A Lineage That Includes The Garage R&B Of The Detroit Cobras And The Port Huron Punk Mayhem Of The Dirtys The Buzzards Unsurprisingly Already Have A Single Slotted For California’s Sympathy For The Record Industry A Label That Has A Soft Spot For A Little Good Old-Fashioned Tough Detroit Street Punk. Their Beginnings Weren’t As Auspicious However. The Buzzards Arose After The Literal Demise Of The Catchily Named Lawrence And The Bitches Lawrence Being The Late And Greatly Missed Larry Terbush Of Dirtys Infamy. When Terbush’s Dirtys Band Mate Joe Burdick Made The Exodus From His Port Huron Punk-Rock Stomping Grounds To The Motor City It Seemed Predestined That He’d Hook Up With Terbush’s Cohorts Detroit Cobras Guitarist Mary Restrepo And “the Twins ” Drummer Nancy And Guitarist Leslie Paterra. You May Recall Leslie From Playing A Rocker In A Ford Escape Ad A Couple Of Months Back But In Real Life All Four Throw Down The Real Deal Detroit Punk-Rock Hybrid. The Combination Of Burdick And Restrepo’s Top-Shelf Band Pedigrees And The Newcomer Enthusiasm Of The Paterras Makes For Some Streamlined Punk Crunch. In Tunes Like “I Got The Shiver ” About A Hangover And “High Class ” A Snotty Examination Of Snobbery The Buzzards Reveal A Certain Sophistication That Contrasts With The Out-Of-Control Antics Of The Dirtys And The Often Disheveled Garage-Stomps Of The Cobras. “We Started Out A Lot More Simple ” Says Burdick Who Handles The Bass And The Vocals. “We’re Not The Most Complicated Band As It Is.” Not Unlike Our Other Ambassadors To The Trash-Rock Dives And Jukeboxes Of The World The Buzzards Display Their Sense Of Regional Pride. Says Restrepo “I Wish There Could Be More Revues Of Bands. Like A Group Of Detroit Bands Going Together To Say Ohio. I Mean I’d Go See That At The Gold Dollar If Three Ohio Bands Came. Even If One Sucked.” Soon The Buzzards Head West To Kalamazoo And Chicago In A Revue With The Dirtbombs. In The Meantime Watch Out For Them At The Usual Dives Around Down Town And Keep An Ear Out For Their Appearance On The Sympathetic Sounds Of Detroit The Watershed Scene Revue Curated By The White Stripes’ Jack White. - Greg Baise

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