With a new album, "Brutality," and a new stage show that includes sound cannons and drone planes as well as more traditional riot gear, The Police State announced it would make appearances this summer, but at undisclosed times and places. "We'll be doing all the hits," said a spokesman, "as well as all the body slams and painful twisting of people's feet."
Fans of the group's lockstep, violent formations can expect such classics as "Every Bone You Break," "Wrapped Around Your Nightstick" and "King of Spray."
The Police State is warning its fans not to stand too close to them and refuses to say whether the First Amendment will apply. "De do do do, de da da da," said the spokesman. "That's all we want to say to you."
Opening the shows will be Billy Club Joel.
- Dr. Lester S. Carboni
Everyone thinks Mark Zuckerberg is so great just because he's worth $50 billion and Facebook had the third-largest IPO in U.S. history. Meanwhile, have you actually gone on Facebook? The font is too small and the new Timeline is a total pain in the ass.
So our question is, if Zuckerberg has contempt for his customers, and they're all afraid he's going to sell their privacy to advertisers (which he's already done), why is this little Poindexter a multi-billionaire, while his betters - meaning us - sit around waiting for our dad to send us another check?
The Winkel-Voss Twins
The Boathouse
Harvard, MA
We turned your query over to an expert in your field, 1973's Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper.
Dear Million Dollar Crybabies,
Welcome to my nightmare. I know what it's like when young upstarts steal from you and get bigger than you ever were. You had Mark Zuckerberg, I had KISS. How do you think I feel, being a number one album, and my biggest legacy is four guys who look like Alice Cooper.
You paved the way for your knock-off, just like I did. When I said "I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies who never conceived of us billion dollar babies," there were no billion dollar babies. There were hardly any million dollar babies. If you had fifty bucks at age 28 in 1973, you were doing better than most.
Now Zuckerberg is 28 and has fifty billion. I'm a concept album and even I can't conceive of that. You'll never catch him. You guys are oarsmen - why don't you create a Facebook crew app and call it a day?
Billion Dollar Babies
In the early 1970's, like fellow rock legendsthe Drifters and Creedence Clearwater Revival, psychedelic icons the Banana Splits split into two separate entities which share a heritage but little else.
The Official Banana Splits featuring Fleagle retains the rights to all the hits, such as "The Tra-La-La Song" and "Doin' the Banana Split," but Fleagle is the only original member. Rounding out the group are H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund (of the Sea Monsters and Chairy (of "Pee Wee's House").
The Original Banana Splits has the other three original members - Bingo, Drooper and Snorky - plus the bass playing monkey from Lancelot Link's Evolution Revolution. As they are legally prohibited by Fleagle from doing any Banana Splits songs, they do covers of groups like Josie and the Pussycats and The Cosby Kids.
Every so often there are rumors of a Splits reunion. In a recent interview at the old Banana Splits Clubhouse Fleagle said he wasn't opposed to one in theory. Then a cuckoo popped out of the clock above his head and said, "What are you opposed to it in, the bathtub?"
Our readers solicit expert advice on their personal lives, politics, the economy - anything at all - from classic rock albums, including Sgt. Pepper, Dark Side of the Moon, Born in the U.S.A., the Anti-Nowhere League's Greatest Hits, Purple Rain and more.
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