Not enough Molly Hatchet appreciation threads here at DU

[LynneSin]

I'm listening to Flirtin' with Disaster and I'm jamming! Great song, Great band and album artwork is just so far out there it's damn cool



Artist: Molly Hatchet Lyrics
Song: Flirtin' With Disaster Lyrics

I’m travelin’ down the road,
I’m flirtin’ with disaster.
I’ve got the pedal to the floor,
My life is running faster.
I’m out of money, I’m out of hope,
It looks like self destruction.
Well how much more can we take,
With all of this corruption.

Been flirtin’ with disaster,
Y’all know what I mean.
And the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don’t know about yourself or,
What you want to be - yeah.
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
I’m travelin’ down that lonesome road.
Feel like I’m dragging a heavy load.
Yeah! I’ve tried to turn my head away,
Feels about the same most every day.
Speeding down the fast lane,
Playin’ from town to town.
The boys and I have been burnin’ it up,
Can’t seem to slow it down.
I’ve got the pedal to the floor,
Our lives are runnin’ faster,
Got our sights set straight ahead,
But ain’t sure what we’re after.

Flirtin’ with disaster,
Y’all know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don’t know about yourself or,
What you plan to be - yea!!
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
Yeah!! we’re travelin’ down that lonesome road.
Feel like I’m dragging a heavy load.
Don’t try to turn my head away,
I’m flirtin’ with disaster every day.
Flirtin’ with disaster, baby,
Y’all know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don’t know about yourself or,
What you plan to be - yea!!
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
Yeah!! we’re travelin’ down that lonesome road.
Feel like I’m dragging a heavy load.
Don’t try to turn my head away,
I’m flirtin’ with disaster every day.

[Richardo]

1. .

[LynneSin]

2. I'm trying to start the Molly Hatchet revival

Give me 6th months and they'll be the top band in the country

[Hissyspit]

3. How about the Rossington/Collins Band revival?

Mmmm... maybe not.

[Crazy Dave]

4. Oh sure

Sometimes they play at a bowling alley or bar here in their own home town. Not too many people get exited down here if they here "Molly Hatchet" is playing somewhere.

[LynneSin]

5. We could start the revival

Next time Molly Hatchet is in town - go to the concert and take some of your friends & loved ones. They'll thank you in the morning!

[Crazy Dave]

8. They are in my town and from my town...

...at least the one I'm living in now. So was Skynyrd and 38 Special. I dated Mary Wilkerson, Leon Wilkerson's sister for a few weeks back in the 80's.

[RagingInMiami]

6. Molly Hatchet and Iron Maiden

Had the most amazing album covers.

[Crazy Dave]

9. Frank Frazetta did the Molly Hatchet covers

Great work

http://www.frazettaartgallery.com/ff/index.html

[swag]

7. Funny, I actually drove them all around Missoula once back

when I was in college. Such a bunch of dumbasses.

At least their tour manager was nice. She was the wife of one of the guys. At one point when we had dumped all the guys off for the soundcheck, she said to me, "I sure wish I had a joint."

I didn't have any rolling papers, but I did have a bit of smoke, so I took her back to my dorm room and we smoked dope using a pop can. That calmed her down good and proper.

There was plenty of coke, whiskey, and pot later that night to go around. But I was good that night because I was the chauffeur.

It was an easy job, because there wasn't a whole lot of groupie demand for Molly Hatchet.

[Crazy Dave]

10. Same here, not much groupie demand

They were playing at a fireworks display one time and tried to get a friend of mines girlfriend to go party with them after the show. She laughed at them, told them to get over themselves and went home with my friend.

[swag]

13. Sweet story.

Thanks.

[Zomby Woof]

15. I take it this wasn't 1978-1983

The lineups you all are talking about sound like the late 80s-through the present. Much different band, unfortunately. Back in the late 70's, they were a platinum act, with their share of backstage attention.

[swag]

16. 1982.

[Zomby Woof]

19. Yep

They were no longer headlining many of their shows by then, and the coke was out of control. Then again, you were in Missoula... not exactly a hopping town (been there, know the place).

They still had much of the popularity base in the south until the mid-80's. World of difference between Montana and there. My bracket of years is based on their regional popularity in the south. Nationally, I would narrow it down to 1979-1980. In 1979, they actually saved Epic Records during the recession the music industry was going through. Ironically, that kept the label alive long enough to host Michael Jackson, among others.

[Crazy Dave]

20. You are correct

It was actually in the later part of the 90's. It's hard to say who is or was from the original band anymore. Plus I haven't been in the bars for years but back when, if a band was playing and you had a couple of ex-Hatchet dipshits in the house they would always demand, as if it was their God given right that the band let them sit in on a couple of songs. I guess in hopes to impress some of the ladies in the audience who otherwise wouldn't know who they are or don't care.

[Zomby Woof]

23. They record their albums in Germany these days

For whatever strange reason, they are huge in Europe. In the late 90's, they had no original members.

LOL on the dipshits... last time I saw them was in 1992, and it was a modest Seattle crowd in the era of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. :-) No one asked to play with them.

[RagingInMiami]

17. Sounds like a story I would hear on VH1

"Where are they now" or whatever it is called.

[IsIt1984Yet]

11. Now there are. One is PLENTY.

[liberalitch]

12. Zamfir.....

I was thinking that there weren't enough Zamfir appreciation threads.
Sold more records than elvis AND the beatles you know

[Zomby Woof]

14. First concert I ever saw

Back in 1981... Molly Hatchet headlined a show with the Nighthawks opening, and .38 Special as the middle act. I was 13 and on top of the world, lol. Hampton Coliseum, the main venue for concerts in Tidewater, with far superior acoustics to the Norfolk Scope.

That was an arena show, but the next 7 times I saw them were in various small clubs, mostly at the Boathouse in Norfolk, VA. They put on a helluva show and I lost some of the hearing in my left ear for a few days after one of them.

Guitarist Steve Holland was from Virginia Beach. He graduated the same high school as my sister (albeit 10 years earlier), and my history teacher in high school had home movies of him as a kid, because he played with her kids.

"Fall Of The Peacemakers" from 1983's No Guts...No Glory deserves much more recognition, but it came out during the plastic MTV era of Duran Duran and Culture Club, and real music couldn't have been more unfashionable. It's a sad and heartfelt tribute to Martin Luther King, John Lennon, and others, as guitarist Dave Hlubek said "who died for the cause of peace."

The current version of the band only has Hlubek as the lone original member, and two other members who joined in the 80's, John Galvin on piano, and Bobby Ingram on guitar. Vocalist Phil McCormack once fronted a band I saw a lot at the Boathouse - The Road Ducks. Danny Joe Brown himself picked McCormack as his own replacement. I met Ingram in Seattle in 1992, after a show at Parker's. Helluva nice guy, very friendly and personable. Sadly, he lost his wife to illness last year. She was active in PETA and other animal rights causes. In fact, Bobby Ingram did some promotional work on their website in tribute to his late wife.

The original band is one I recall fondly from my earliest years getting into my own music - no longer leeching my older sister's albums, lol. I still have all of their classics, and recently even bought a King Biscuit Flower Hour CD which came from a show they did in Los Angeles in 1982, with the Tower of Power horns backing them up on a few cuts. :thumbsup:

Long live the Hatchet!

[LynneSin]

18. Hatchet RULEZ

I'll have to get that Flower Power CD! I remember listening to King Biscuit Flower Hour back in the 80's

[Zomby Woof]

21. Word of caution

Jimmy Farrar was their singer on the album. He only did two albums for them in 1980 and 1981, and the King Biscuit concert was at the end of his tenure before Danny Joe Brown came back (he had been battling diabetes even then). But it kicks ass.

I HIGHLY recommend, and you should be able to find it on Amazon, is a CD called "Live at the Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, GA, April 22, 1979". It was from a live radio broadcast too, and does have Danny Joe. It is the better of the two live documents.

[Crazy Dave]

22. LynneSin normally I love your taste in old vinyl...

...but I'll pass when it comes to these guys.

Let me know when it's time for a "Head East" revival.

[LynneSin]

24. I DEFY you to find a copy of "Dreams I'll Never See"

and tell me you weren't jamming at the end of this 8minute classic

[Ramsey]

25. There's a reason for that

:puke:

[Spirochete]

26. Molly!

I saw them 5 or 6 times altogether. They always played a tight show. Once they opened for the Outlaws. It started to look like everyone in the arena had a guitar, there were so many guitarists. hehe

[Sanity Claws]

27. I thought you meant the original Molly Hatchet.

That girl had guts.