The return of Texas Terri

February 25^th at the Redwood Bar saw the return of Texas Terri Laird to Los Angeles. A fierce mixture of Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop and Wendy O Williams rock ‘n roll charisma, Texas Terri made quite a name for herself in the Hollywood scene with her bands the Killer Crows, Texas Terri & the Stiff Ones and Texas Terri Bomb before she moved to Berlin in 2006. With a number of European tours under her belt, Texas Terri had already achieved genuine rock star status in Germany, so the move wasn’t too unexpected. All of which made Friday night’s homecoming all the more compelling as Texas Terri played to a sold out Redwood crowd supported by local bands Million Kids and A Pretty Mess. The L.A. version of Texas Terri bomb is an all-star assembly of great local musicians including Kevin Tyler Preston and Aaron Minton from Prima Donna, Meghan from A Pretty Mess and Roy Morgan from the Neurotics. The band knocked out a great set that featured covers like the Stooges "I Wanna Be Your Dog", the Dead Boys "Sonic Reducer" and Texas Terri originals like "Oh Yeah". Seen rocking out in the audience were Swords of Fatima drummer Nick Scott, Electric Children front man Eddie Lopez (pictured above with Texas Terri), Niceness In the 90's author Jim Miller, former Hormones and Napalm Star front man Tim Napalm Stegall and Caron Maso from the 80's group the Little Girls (whatever happened to them?).
Texas Terri Bomb play again Saturday, Feb. 26 at the Dawg House in City of Industry and again at the Redwood Bar on March 4th with Vicky & the Vengents, Long Neck Goose and Crazy Squeeze.