pretenders

ray-boy sez he's gonna go see the pretenders in august. i saw 'em the first time they toured the states, at some tiny dump in dallas. chrissie hynde was one badass rockarolla, could really write 'em and sing 'em. when i came back to texas from colorado, spring of 1980, i owned two cassettes: the first albs by the pretenders and the specials. that first rec was a great one, and she always made interesting radio music after that. half the 'riginal band's dead now, which was surprising at the time, but now less so (cf. da ramones).