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Peter Holsapple: An Interview

Jeremy Gluck, Bucketfull of Brains, Fall 2009

IN '82 WE WERE all listening to the dBs' second album, Repercussion. The Barracudas, having been shown the ejection seat by EMI, were in a lull; I had time on my hands, got the album to review for Sounds and fell in love: "Effective, unaffected, mischievous, voluptuous, manic, incisive, insistent, inventive, bubblegum that'll uncap your teeth and unglue your biases, one of the last great rock 'n' roll groups." (And that was the understated passage.)

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