#mojo nixon and skid roper

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Mojo Nixon

[musickickztoo]

RIP Mojo Nixon

August 2, 1957 – February 7, 2024

[rastronomicals]

11:29 AM EDT August 3, 2024:

Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - "In A Gadda Da Vida" From the album Frenzy (1986)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

[chronivore]

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper with the Flat Duo Jets

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Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Amsterdam Dogshit Blues

[pgoeltz]

Rip

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Bummer. Somehow I completely missed the news reports that Mojo Nixon, popular musical humorist of the 1980s and 90s best known for songs like "Elvis is Everywhere" and "Debbie Gibson is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child" (not making that up - it was a spoof of tabloids) died after a show back in February. I got to see him live in Saskatoon in the late 1980s and my memory was him coming up to me at the bar and me trying to engage him in conversation but it was so noisy in there we couldn't hear each other! His music was everywhere at my high school though luckily by the time he came to play at the Holiday House Motor Hotel and Bar (as you do; it's now the site of a grocery superstore) I was old enough to go!

Anyway, here is Nixon with his longtime musical partner Skid Roper doing a wild version of "Elvis is Everywhere" on the Arsenio Hall Show back in 1987 (around same year I saw him perform, as it happens).

[kulturado]

The Story: Mojo Nixon: The Lost Interview

The Writer: Joseph Hudak

[onryou-onryou]

Mojo Nixon - Elvis is Everywhere

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Mojo and Skid with Flat Duo Jets...

[musickickztoo]

Mojo Nixon

August 2, 1957 – February 7, 2024

[rastronomicals]

Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper

[slackwire]

Song of the Week 02/09/2024

Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - High School Football Friday Night

RIP Mojo, here's a Super Bowl song for ya

[chaoselph]

Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper - Mushroom Maniac - live in New Orleans 1989

Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper "Mushroom Manic"

Too bad there is not a better video, of a performance of this song. Saw him do this in 1990, with a great middle part about dropping shrooms on Saddam Hussein instead of bombs.