the explosives

doing ints for robin sylar's bio today, i was surprised and pleased to discover that robin's childhood pal from dallas, waller "sonny" collie, is none other than the gent who went by the curious moniker wc3 as a member of austin's explosives, one of my fave bands to go see when i lived in austin briefly at the ass-end of the '70s. their dark secret was that sonny and drummer freddie krc usedta play with non-punk acts like b.w. stevenson, willis allan ramsey, and jerry jeff walker. that didn't keep roky erickson from using 'em as his backup band, tho, either back in the day or during his 2005 resurgence. damn, wonder where my copy of live at raul's has gotten off to.