This is a very classy proto-punk, metal-tinged scorcher from 1978 – an act called THE WEASELS set off all sorts of alarms with this number, the immortal “Beat Her With A Rake”. Word has it that they were 1977 contemporaries with & pals of both the nascent LA post-glam, pre-punk bands of the day (RUNAWAYS, IMPERIAL DOGS, BERLIN BRATS etc) and with VAN HALEN, who played the LA club circuit as openers for The Weasels on more than one occasion. It got a lot of airplay on KROQ, pretty much Wednesday, June 13, 2007
BEAT HER WITH A RAKE AND MAKE HER PAY FOR HER MISTAKE
This is a very classy proto-punk, metal-tinged scorcher from 1978 – an act called THE WEASELS set off all sorts of alarms with this number, the immortal “Beat Her With A Rake”. Word has it that they were 1977 contemporaries with & pals of both the nascent LA post-glam, pre-punk bands of the day (RUNAWAYS, IMPERIAL DOGS, BERLIN BRATS etc) and with VAN HALEN, who played the LA club circuit as openers for The Weasels on more than one occasion. It got a lot of airplay on KROQ, pretty much 
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SUDDENLY . . . yr blog's getting really tasty! Today, to me - this sounds like the missing link between PERE UBU's "FInal Solution" and WÜRM's "I'm Dead". The highest form of compliment - though I do think you might be mistakening doofus for godlike.
what about the flipside... I'm the Commander, right? Really, really dumb & great, too!
My copy of this record has a really awful warp in it, but it still plays on some turntables. About as dumb as it gets.
Dave Martin
This is exactly what I'd like to do to my soon to be ex wife.
this song iz about me!!!!!!
good bless Micheal brophey
I hate these mother fuckers
ahh yeah back 1976 when the wiskey ago go was classy and they had two bars with real glasses.the go gos would often play before the weazles i liked when they would do nancy s. boots made for walking also
Wow! Grew up in LA and totally remember this song. I had the 45. Long gone now. Rodney played it on KROQ and I was like 16 or something and went out and bought it. We liked it for the shock factor of the lyrics, which went over big with me and my 16 year old buddies. Thanks for posting the song!!!
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