Sounds From The Junkshop #96 - The Von Bondies
"Life was fun when we were young..." - The Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon I won't lie, when it came down to revisiting the Von Bondies for this column I didn't exactly have high hopes. Similar to the Vines , I think that the fact that they burned themselves out very rapidly after their brief spell in the spotlight and basically ended up being a one hit wonder over on these shores with C'mon C'mon which reached the Top 20 and which they never really came anywhere near bettering chart-wise. Plus there was the fact that lead singer Jason Stollsteimer never really came across as being particularly likeable in interviews (he'd come up through the same Detroit garage scene as Jack White so maybe it's something in the water over there, I dunno) and a lingering suspicion that my like of the band might have been more down to the fact that I desperately fancied their cool-as-ice vixen of a guitarist Marcie Bolen than anything to do with their actual musi...