08/21/24 Show 221 : Children Should Be Seen And Not Heard (Unless They Are Very Loud)

The Gerard Cosloy Radio Hour (That Feels Like Two Hours)

with this week’s internet sensation aka Anonymous Five Year Old’s “46 Instances Of A Child Screaming Into A Microphone” we are forced (at least i am) to recount the best (and worst) prior examples of children-in-bands, stunt or otherwise. Old Skull didn’t have a happy ending (and with the Missing Foundation lineage, they didn’t necessarily have a happy start, either). From afar it seems like things worked out ok for Hanson, but if “Slapshot” came out in 1977, i don’t understand how they were kid in the ’90’s. Redd Kross is probably the gold standard, Prussian Blue somewhat less so. Harley Flanagan - PEAKED EARLY. the 1-800-Kars-4-Kids Band - also peaked early (though perhaps not as early as Harley. So they’re not all gonna be as great at Tom Ardolino’s ‘Unknown Brain’ (which in retrospect, I wish I’d played instead of “46 Instances Of A Child Screaming Into A Microphone”)