The best history of the Crawdaddys that I have found is at a blog called “The Ché Underground: San Diego’s Underground Rock ’n’ Roll Scene of the 1980s”; the post on this band is at cheunderground.com/blog/?page_id=1041 . The story is compellingly told and is well worth reviewing in its entirety, but it goes into considerably more detail than I will write here. The name of the blog is taken from the Ché Café, which is described in Wikipedia as “a worker co-operative, social center, and live music venue located on the University of California, San Diego campus in La Jolla, California, USA”.
The blog entry on the Crawdaddys is headlined: “In a Ché Underground exclusive, Ray Brandes offers the first comprehensive history of San Diego’s original retro-visionaries.” Ray Brandes was previously a member of the Mystery Machine, which contributed a mind-bogglingly great song called “She’s Not Mine” (written by Carl Rusk) to a Voxx Records garage rock band “competition” called Battle of the Garages, Part 2.
In September 2011, the Crawdaddys played at the Casbah in Middletown as part of a two-day “Ché Underground Festival” at the club that was headlined by past UARB the Unknowns, described by the local newspaper U-T San Diego as “a leading San Diego band in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s”.
(January 2015/2)
