Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band
My boss invests a good amount of import into one's birthday and with whom it is shared. She asked me mine on my first day on the job. July 9th. I've always liked my birthday.
Unfortunately, I share my birthday with a number of jackasses, spouse killers and mass murderers. Henry VII, OJ, Courtney Love and Donald Rumsfeld among those. I recently wiki-ed my ba ba ba birfday to try to transform this badge of dishonor with a better list of names. This is how I found the name Root Boy Slim, followed by his full band title: Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band.
I wiki-ed them. Link to full entry-wikipedia::
He went on to Yale, where he majored in African American studies, graduating in 1967. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. His fraternity brothers included future President George W. Bush. MacKenzie was a year older than Bush.
While at Yale, MacKenzie formed a band with classmate and fraternity brother Greenlee, who was quarterback of Yale's football team. The band was named Prince La La and the Midnight Creepers. Band members wore ermine capes, silver lame hot pants and boasted that they were never invited for return engagements.
The year after MacKenzie and Greenlee graduated, they returned to the DKE house during Yale's homecoming. Bush, who since their departure had become president of DKE, threw them out and banned them from the house.
Naturally, I looked for the CD, and found an out of print copy on Amazon for 135 USD. Undeterred by this rapine pricing, I dug up a site with a remastered version of the music at www.rootboyslim.com for $15. It'll be here in a few days. In the mean time - here's a youtube clip the guy running the Root Boy operations sent me a link to when I ordered the CD. They've been likened to Dr. John, a Voodoo favorite of mine.
