“All of it was carried out in most overdrive on a mattress of rockabilly, blues, and R&B, which earned Nixon some mates within the roots rock group however had sufficient punk angle — in its personal weird method — to make him a school radio staple throughout his heyday,” the All Music Guide wrote.
“I’m a rabble-rouser who does humorous social commentary inside a rock-and-roll setting,” he informed The New York Instances in 1990. In one other interview with the paper, he described himself as a voice of “the doomed, the damned, the bizarre.”
Born Neil Kirby McMillan Jr., on 2 Aug, 1957, in North Carolina to a father who owned a soul music station, Mr. Nixon was drawn to music from a younger age as a result of, he said in 2017, “it’s thrilling, it’s harmful, and it makes the church folks nervous.”
Within the Eighties, he started performing with Richard Banke, higher referred to as Skid Roper, in San Diego. Their third album, “Bo-Day-Shus!!!” was the primary to make the nationwide charts, due to the satirical track “Elvis Is In every single place.” The track, which posited that Elvis was chargeable for the whole lot from constructing the pyramids to creating ships disappear within the Bermuda Triangle, and its music video, bought the eye of MTV, which made him an occasional host in 1988.
He went on to file a number of extra albums, each solo and with different collaborators, together with with the backup band the Toadliquors, and in addition labored as an actor and radio D.J. In recent times, he turned a radio host on Sirius XM, the place he hosted the afternoon present on the Outlaw Nation channel beneath the title “the Loon within the Afternoon.”
