| Every now and then The Penetrators get to play with a bona fide legend, like the Uncle of Rockabilly, the Blond Bomber, Mr. Ronnie Dawson. Ronnie rocks ten times harder than guys half his age, delivering two and a half hours of the most action-packed rock & roll you've ever heard, every night of the week. | Stix is in love! Agent Stechkin kisses up to Lisa Pankratz, Ronnie's drummer, whose looks are surpassed only by her skill on the skins! Lisa also keeps time for Teisco Del Rey. |
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| "Lay-dees and gentlemen! For tonight's main event, we've got a no holds-barred, venom-spitting, hemmed-in by chickenwire grudgefest here at Egan's! Watch out for flying beer, blood, drum sticks, guitar picks and teeth!!" announces referee Mark Cobb before Thee Phantom 5ive take on The Penetrators on their home turf... | ...and Rip doesn't help things by grabbing the mic and publicly questioning Thee P5's collective manhood, birth legitimacy, intestinal fortitude and musicianship. Notice Todd and Blair's reaction -- this one's bound to get ugly, sports fans! |
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| Thee Phantom 5ive open up a big can of whupass rock & roll, but draw a technical foul for singing... | ...and they hadn't counted on our ringer, Rob Johnson playing the intro for The Wind Beneath My Kilt. Once again, the showdown was called a draw. |
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| How much testosterone can you fit in one picture? Our intrepid agents meet The Idol of Idle Youth, Webb Wilder himself, after warming up the crowd for him at the Kentuck Festival in Northport, Alabama. |
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| Hanging out with Upstart Records' masked marvels Los Straitjackets at City Stages, flanked by a couple of cats whose schtick got annoying real quick. | The Penetrators, Thee Phantom 5ive's Blair again, and world-famous Beatle Bob after the boys' performance at the Nashville Entertainment Association's 1996 Extravaganza. |
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| Field Agent Rollo Ricochet relieves Stix on drums, as he is called on to do from time to time. Rollo has saved The Penetrators' bacon on numerous occasions, once learning 30 songs in one afternoon! | The incredible, the sexy, the vi-VAY-shus Field Agent Leggy Limbeaux pauses during soundcheck while sitting in for Trace, who was laid up in the hospital with a bullet wound. |
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| The man behind those crazy Farfisa tones that drive the kids mad on Night of the Drunken Cheerleaders and Hubba Hubba, Field Agent Bobby Corvair in action. | Field Agent Jacques "Leather Lungs" Le Sabre's love life has improved considerably since wooing the ladies with his performance on Lamento A Go Go. |
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| Mission accomplished! The lovely Moxie Van der Volt, field agent for the Southern Surf Syndicate, poses with the man, the myth, Phil Dirt at the KFJC studios in Los Altos Hills, Ca., after delivering long-awaited DAT tapes of The Penetrators for Phil's Surf's Up show. | Cowabunga subscribers will no doubt recognize the name "Moon Dawg." Now, here with Rip, is Athens, Georgia's coolest surf music afficianado! |
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| The Woodies take the stage at the Paradise Lounge in SF. No idea who the guy in the front is. | Pollo Del Mar on the same stage, for their second show of the day with us. No idea who this guy is, either. |
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| The Aquamen go ape on the Paradise's other stage. Again, no idea who THIS guy in front is either. | Thee Phantom 5ive pound out a stomper on another night at Egan's. We DO know who this guy in front is -- that's Cowboy, a walking monument to good times in Tuscaloosa! |