Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

[sir pball]

He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor..

[Bayard]

1. Yuppers

Are they still playing together?

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. They were until last year

Huey has been suffering from tinnitus and progressive hearing loss. He found he couldn't hear his pitch anymore and cancelled 40 dates.

[Freddie]

2. There's a connection

Huey’s original group, Clover, played backup on Elvis’ first album My Aim is True, before Elvis put The Attractions together. Love them both, I think Huey is one of the under-appreciated great acts of the 80’s.

[sir pball]

8. Ugh, so pretentious...you can probably get a reservation at Dorisa too huh

Jerk. (in jest).

[mr_lebowski]

3. I like him okay, Sports was a pretty great CD ..

My ex-stepmom (mother of my bros) used to do work around the house for Huey & Johnny Cola's families for years, in Marin. Cleaning, organizing, appointments & shuttling kids, etc.

I think it's a pretty hard sell that Huey is more bitter and cynical than Elvis Costello, though. IMHO.

[sir pball]

5. They really came into their own there, commercially and artistically.

A clear, crisp sound and sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

I think Bale sells the bitter and cynical argument well though, would you want to disagree with him on it?

[John Fante]

4. Can't answer now, I have to return some videotapes.

[sir pball]

6. I still use that as an excuse sometimes.

It usually gets really blank stares and I love it.

[Iggo]

16. ...and if I don't rewind them first I'll get dinged for it.

[world wide wally]

7. They came on like a house afire... And disappeared just as fast.

Some great music though.

[dhill926]

9. I do...solid band...

on my last day in Hollywood about 7 years ago, I stopped in at The Frolic Room (of course), for one last blast. Who was sitting at the bar, but Huey Lewis and the News. They were on break from a recording session at Capitol Records. He was cool, allowing folks to take pics with him. The bass player was getting hammered of course haha...great memory...

[lark]

11. He used to play all over the SF bay area in the early 80's and I saw him often.

He sometimes played gigs with my then significant others' band, so even went to a couple of after show parties. They were so good then, crisp, with good lyrics and a lot of fun. i wasn't surprised when he made it big a few years later, always thought it could happen. They were good guys in a good band, and fun to party with so nice to see them make good.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. I saw the band years ago as a double feature. . .

. . .along with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.

Good bands, both of them. Hell of a night.

[aaaaaa5a]

12. Heck Yes!

They are an underrated 1980s band.

[sir pball]

13. Ok, so while I do actually like Huey Lewis...none of y'all watched the video, did you?

[Brother Buzz]

14. I go all the way back to Clover with Huey Lewis

Hell, we attended the same junior high school.

Clover did the session back-up for Elvis Costello's first album, but Huey wasn't playing with them then.

Sports was totally Huey Lewis and the News' seminal work

Note: Huey Lewis was a close friend of the late great Dwight Clark so it's not a coincidence the television in the The 2AM Club is playing "The Catch". The toilet seat guitar hanging on the was was made by Charlie Deal, Mill Valley's town idiot extraordinaire musician; Huey occasionally played in Charlie's wacko band.

[Generic Brad]

15. Romantically?

I don't know. What have you heard? Does the band seem like they like me?

[Iggo]

17. Helluva party band for about a minute-and-a-half.

[cemaphonic]

19. You really can't post that without this...

For all that his 80s image was a kinda clean-cut dork, he spent a bunch of time in the 70s busking harmonica in Europe and Africa.