What?? Huh?? Please speak up, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!! Please excuse my rudeness, but on Friday night I had my eardrums melted by the World's Greatest Cover Band of the World's Greatest Real Band. That's right, The Atomic Punks rolled through Santa Barbara and WOW. To quote David Lee Roth reincarnate: "we're going to remind you of what it was like to have sex without condoms and do blow at the same time!" Did I say WOW already? Furthermore -- and most importantly, vis a vis this fantastic website -- The Atomic Punks' guitar player, Russ Parrish, is from FRESNO. I knew he looked familiar from the Hitching Post. And many thanks to the Ombudsman for breaking the story about VH's semi-triumphant return to the Central Valley. Listen to me people...I'm willing to bet a Caruthers wooden nickel that nobody out there can come up with a better place to see Van Halen than the 'No.
