Monday, November 9, 2009

The Name of the Smacksy


Tens of people have asked me the question, “Where did the name ‘smacksy’ come from?”

The answer is one of the following. I will let you decide:

Smacksy was the name of the new wave band that I fronted in 1986. On the basis of our one hit "The Heartbreak," we toured opening for Human League and Haircut 100. We lost our street cred when we were dropped from the MTV rotation and picked up by VH-1, resulting in an ill fated North American tour with Nu Shooz and Falco. We broke up in 1989, after our bass player Jax was mildly injured in a pyrotechnics incident at a gig we played at the opening of a 24 Hour Fitness in Carlsbad.

OR

At our house we are really into snacks. Sometimes we call snacks, smacks. When one is hungry it can be referred to as snacksy or smacksy. The domain name Snacksy.com was already taken.

13 comments:

  1. Well you definitely had the intimidating hair to make the first choice true. You could have given Tawny Kitaen a run for her money with that hair. Can you do a split on the hood of a car?

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  2. The photo was so convincing that I had to google around a little, just to double check that the first wasn't maybe true with a different band name. Seriously. That PHOTO.

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  3. (As soon as my google search hit your blog, I realized you may have click-tracking software and would think, "Wow, someone... in Indianapolis... was dumb enough to google that?" and then of course know it was me. So I had to give you the "It was that PHOTO!" excuse preemptively.)

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  4. I agree w/DG. You are totally Tawny. Although I think you ended up in better shape than she did.

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  5. I knew it wasn't the band.

    Because then it would of had to be:

    SMAXY

    Those '80s.

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  6. Nu Shooz and Falco are total bummers! They ruin every band they tour with.!! I'm sick of it!!!

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  7. I'd go for the snacksy option. Seriously. Got any leftover candy bars from Halloween?

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  8. ha i thought nu shooz and flaco were made up

    :) skates

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  9. I'm glad I could contribute to the pleas for you to write this entry! That is an amazing album cover! Totally envious of the hair. Maybe I should make my own album cover...

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  10. you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true

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  11. Honey, you are the ultimate 80's babe.

    Why couldn't I get may hair to go that high in the 80's? I seriously think I OWNED a part of Aqua Net.

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