Vampira is dead.
Among Nurmi's scattered film appearances following her TV career was a cameo in Ed Wood's 1959 cult classic, ''Plan 9 From Outer Space.''A little known fact (fortunately) -- before they were the Subteens, they were "Plan 9." Then they realized there were about 7,000 other bands with the same name, and that they were getting tired of playing "99 luftballons" at Frat parties, so they canned the weird singer and rechristened themselves "Nail". Which is much more original, don't you think?
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My following began with Nail, didn't know about the Plan 9 days, interesting. Jay, a few bars of "Defensive," for old time's sake please..
An even less interesting fact: Nail was supposed to be called Driving Nails, a not-so-obscure reference to farting into a cushion. (Looking back, many of our songs sounded like someone farting into a cushion.)
Mike, our uber-butch drummer, wasn't having it, though. Thus, Nail was born. Rargh!
I can only remember about four words of "Defensive," sorry.
I first fell in love with Jay and Kram as Nail. We bonded at Barrister's over power pop, booze, and irresponsibility.
P.S.I still have a Nail sticker prominently featured on my Telecaster.
What's irresponsibility again?
Those were the days ...
Yeah, those were Dave's Dynamo Hum days. I've never seen a man look at another man with as much admiration as Dave looked at Martin Chytil. You could tell there was a lot of love there.
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