Sleestaks Rock Hard with a Whiskey Tinge

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By Jim Phillips, 8-11-06

One of my first (certainly not my last) addictions was the television show, Land of the Lost. I was enrapt every Saturday morning by Marshall, Will and Holly and their routine expedition which turned, much to my delight, into a freakish disaster. And the bane of their existence were the sleestak, those hissing, rubber-skinned lizards armed with tiny, slingshot-sized crossbows.

What the sleestak delivered in reptilian menace, Sleestaks deliver in hell-bent, whiskey charged rock and roll. This is rock that you hear on a juke box in a bar that you shouldn’t be in and can’t for the life of you explain how you got there. And you want to go home. But that song is just so damn good. Maybe one more drink. Maybe two. Catch Sleestaks around town. And click here to listen to 15 Beers.

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