If I ever wind up a music booker in Hawaii and have to do a local-flavored bill, the only thing that could compensate for not being able to revive Gabby Pahinui would be to reunite the Fuckin' Flying A-Heads. It would be a short show, as they only had one single, I believe, from 1980. But I'll encourage an encore of their hit song played over. Several times.
"Swiss Cheese Back." (MP3).

















there's an interview with 'em in an issue of UGLY THINGS, pretty sure... amazing that this came out of hawaii!
more hawaiian punk/new wave pics info here http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~motopu/bandlinksetcpage.html
lots of pre-j church members & secret hero james cribley!
Posted by: eric o | April 04, 2007 at 07:57 PM
this track is fucking unreal. thanks for putting it up!
Posted by: Lars | April 05, 2007 at 09:43 AM
That was pretty amazing. More stuff by or about these people would be great
Posted by: Dave | April 05, 2007 at 04:38 PM
Biggest ebay regret: Passing up on one of three lots of 50 of this record about 4 years ago for $250.................
Posted by: SS | April 07, 2007 at 01:49 AM
Thanks so much for sharing this!
Any chance you could put up the flip-side, "Watching TV", it was even better, or at least more seriously deranged. Haven't heard either in over 20 years, just amazing.
I was working in a record store in Palo Alto when a woman brought in a bunch of the singles; turned out she was closely associated with them.
We all loved the single, and picked up and sold a number of them. She actually got the band over to SFO to play a couple of shows, I'm still pissed that I missed seeing them perform.
Clay
Posted by: Clay | May 24, 2007 at 03:37 PM