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Monday Morning Meeting: Getting You Up To Speed (Upspeeding)

Posted at 6:58 AM on September 11, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (8 Comments)

OK, let's take care of some old business. Last week, a neat hard-rocking British band--sorta punky, sorta psychobillly, sorta Black-Eyed Snakes with a bottomless pint of bitter--caught our attention. They are the Archie Bronson Outfit, and their new album is called "Derdang, Derdang." Which raises two immediate questions: (1) Who is Archie Bronson? And (2) What does "Derdang, Derdang" mean? Well, we have the answers on good authority--from Sam Windett, ABO's singer and guitarist, who told Harp magazine that the band name

"comes from a very old Buffalo Bill comic book a friend gave me years ago. Archie Bronson is a character in one of the stories and he had an outfit of ruffians and cowboys. I saw it and a name was born. People thought we were a jazz band for a while. It's not really a classic rock name."

True that. Also, what kind of a name is "Derdang Derdang?

"It doesn’t really mean anything. It's an onomatopoeia for guitar strings, strumming and going 'derdang, derdang.'"

A psychopunk band from London that knows the word "onomatopoeia"? We think we're in love. Plus the drummer, Arp Cleveland, writes all the lyrics. Just like Neil Peart, the drummer of Rush!

Comments (8)

Wang Chung picked their name the same way, in their case the sound of a chord played with a downstroke followed by an upstroke. I'm sorry to start your week out with "Dance Hall Days" in your head, but I will also suffer, I assure you. "We were cool, oh Christ..." Noooooooooooo!

Posted by Ronnie Broadfoot | September 11, 2006 10:09 AM

Wang Chung--awesome!

And here all along I thought it was a canned, faux-Chinese food product.

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