Firehose – Flyin’ The Flannel [Throwback Thursday]

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Today on Throwback Thursday we are going back to 1991 and this release from Firehose (stylized as fIREHOSE) called ‘Flyin’ The Flannel’. Firehose was a band that was born out of the remnants of the great Minutemen and featured of course the great Mike Watt on bass. They featured a great mix of punk rock ethics and some trippier jazzier sounds thrown together as you can see on this album. This is really a cool album and it randomly was really one of the first kind of lesser-known indie-ish (even though this was on a major) albums I had to my name way back when. Always have dug the sound and the songs here. This was their fourth released album and their first major label release. Mike Watt of course went on to some solo/collaboration work afterwards and I think he is still tooling around out there, probably touring somewhere. George Hurley on drums was of course the other member carried over from The Minutemen, who ended when D. Boon passed away. Ed Crawford took over on guitar for Firehose. Some cool stuff here from these guys, take a trip back, just a great album.

Firehose – Can’t Believe – From Flyin’ The Flannel
Firehose – Flyin’ The Flannel – From Flyin’ The Flannel