Throwback MP3 of the Week: the Touchdowns, “Drunk and Loaded”
It’s football season. The Chiefs are losing terribly, but the Jayhawks are 4-0 going into conference play, so I don’t really care (and, honestly wouldn’t anyway, but my kid does, so I try and show some form of support). Still, the football season always brings to mind cooking meat with fire, drinking beer, and loud music that gets you fucking pumped. That’s why we bring you the Touchdowns, and their song “Drunk and Loaded” this week. What better way to rock out before a game than something that actually rocks, as opposed to the Black Eyed Peas?
The Touchdowns put out three records over the history of the band: two EPs, Rookie Phenom and Rock, and a full-length, My Wonderful High School Life. The band was pretty much Podstar with Ryan singing and playing drums for the last year of two of its existence, after Chris and Dillon left the band.
A bunch of high school kids from Iola, Kansas, the Touchdowns won best new band at the Pitch Awards (then known as the Klammies: the Kansas City Lawrence Music Awards) in 1999. I was in attendance with the webzine I was writing for at the time, and after the show, ended up at the home of another best new band contender, Lushbox, after the ceremony.
We all ended up hanging out until the wee small hours of the morning, and Dillon, Chris, and Ryan all drank our beer and bummed my cigarettes. By the end of the night, everyone was cool and new friends forever. Ryan is still around, playing in bands, and being a generally awesome scenester. I ran into him at the KU’s graduation this past May, and we ended up working our way down the Hill together, as we worked our way through a flask of whiskey.
This track ought to get your next tailgate riled up and ready to go.
