Search - Huns :: Live at the Palladium 1979

You really had to be there.

Marc E. Sterling | 01/21/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A real trip down Memory Sewer, these guys were the first punk band in Austin and achieved their notoriety by getting busted by the Austin PD in the middle of their first show in Raul's, a dive on the drag that turned into the greatest punk bar there ever was. I didn't see that show, but I saw most of their other ones (me and six other weirdo/losers). I was the tall guy in glasses that always stood in the back. The Huns were always fun because they were so over the top, and this recording of a Dallas show catches them in all their ragged glory... they won a battle of the bands in Austin ( I still lay awake wondering how) and got to play in Dallas for this show. It's loud, it's cheezy, and I love it because it puts me right back there in Raul's, where I heard the best music of my life. My only complaint about this CD is that they could have included the immortal "Glad He's Dead/Busy Kids" single... it's not like I'm gonna get it elsewhere on CD... but the Huns were a great band/force/whatever, and I'm glad I've got this to remind me of when I was a young drunken college bozo with no friends and money to burn... all hail the Huns!"