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A fully updated and fascinating "where are they now" of all the main players in "Dirty Windshields", including members of the Smugglers past and present, beloved roadie Ska-T, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Larry Livermore from Lookout Records and more.
The Smugglers are pulled out of a dozen years of dormancy by a young promoter from a legendary venue: 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California, for an epic event that would eventually become known as "The Lookouting." In turn, "Dirty Windshields", and the Smugglers, received a surprise happy ending...
In this final chapter, the Smugglers meet the ghosts of their future at a freezing arts collective in Switzerland: the rapidly rising garage rock 'n' roll band The Hives.
NEW ZEALAND! The Land of the Long White Cloud! WE MADE IT!!! This was one of the Smugglers most exciting and fulfulling touring destinations in our many years on the road and in the air. Shows were packed, songs were shouted, Kiwi friends and lovers made. All this even though Beez barely made it into the country despite our endless internal crossing-borders training.
The Smugglers embark on their first tour Down Under, supporting Oz punk legends the Hard-Ons, but all does not go to plan due to a series of calamities involving various Australian wildlife, both human and otherwise, culminating in the Smugglers suffering their first-ever robbery on the road.
This chapter finally answers the oft-asked question: "Did any of the Smugglers ever get it on with any of the Donnas?" Also: the Smugglers make a triumphant return to Japan to begin their epic Pan-Pacific tour for "Rosie", infamously dubbed the "Pacific Rim Job Tour."
If you've ever wondered what it was like to tour with *The Donnas* aka the American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine, this chapter is for YOU. It was wild! It was skintight! It was non-stop party action! It was all over the U.S.A.! WHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Ever heard of Isny? Neither had the Smugglers! The band comes down from the huge crowds of Italy to going up up up into the Alps for an out-of-control show at a tiny ski chalet in Bavaria... if they can find the town.
The Smugglers arrive at the most remarkable, filthy, amazing, huge, and impossible venues the band ever played: Forte Prenestino, an apocalyptic castle-like socialist squat, on the edge of Rome.
The Smugglers discover the smash 'em up demolition derby that is... Madrid during rush hour. Also, the band teams up with "Rock n Roll" Jimmy Garcia to help navigate Spanish clubs overflowing with elicit drugs and wild fans.
The Smugglers head to the Continent for their "Selling the Sizzle" European tour with mixed feelings. Would this tour do as poorly as their first trip to Spain a few years earlier, or would their newfound association with Lookout Records save their collective touring asses?
The Smugglers misadventures in Japan with the Queers and Supersnazz rage on, with Queers lead singer Joe ever threatening to quit the highly disorganized tour at any moment.
Dirty Windshields: the Audiobook is BACK for Part 3: "Sushi and Squats." In this chapter, the Smugglers journey to Japan for a tour with the Queers and Supersnazz, which begins on a bad note. Two members of the entourage disappear.
The Smugglers and the Queers make a shocking discovery while searching for the Buddy Holly plane crash site in the corn fields of Iowa.
We chronicle some of the most bizarre punk rock crash pads we ever slept at, which includes one of the most infamous and disgusting tour stories in Smugglers history. You have been warned!
Maxwell's, the famed music venue in Hoboken, New Jersey, infamously catches fire during a Smugglers performance.
The Smugglers tour with the Mr. T Experience devolves into a full-blown punk rock riot at the show in Denver.
The Smugglers make their most popular album with Mass Giorgini, plus the band hires infamous roadie Ska-T while embarking on the first wildly successful Lookout tour with the Mr T Experience. And Larry Livermore is everywhere.
The Smugglers meet pop-punk icon and Lookout Records co-founder Larry Livermore, learning of his fascinating history. As well, the Smugglers play a fateful show at the Purple Onion with the Ne'er Do Wells and the Groovie Ghoulies.
The Smugglers take a very, very wrong turn into the scariest town in America, then figure it out to play one of the most notorious venues in Texas: "Taco Land" in San Antonio.
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