The Tunnel Rats – Run For Your Life – Review

The Tunnel Rats

Run For Your Life (Play Hahd Records)
by Scott Hefflon

The Tunnel Rats turn out hate punk at its finest. These four old schoolers pay tribute to the greats with a cover of “Die When You Die” by G. G. Allin, and a “cover” of the Fear song, “I Love Living in the City” – the rude boys of New Hampshire tell their graphic tale in “I Love Living in New Hampshire.” Fucking sheep, getting loaded, tipping cows, and kicking hippie ass all along the drug-crazed Gonzo trail. “Rollins is a Gay Boy” is sure to shake a few people’s foundations. The NH scumbags are: throaty vocalist Captain Leech, guitar virtuoso (not!) Duke Crevanator, bass-basher B-face (also in the Queers), and Bernie Fonzerri, who hits things, usually the drums.

The best (and easiest) way to describe their beliefs would be merely to quote the manifesto inside of the 7″ sleeve. I quote:

AAAAHHH NEW HAMPSHIRE. THE ONLY STATE IN THE NATION THAT REFUSES TO RAPE ITS CITIZENS WITH OUTRAGEOUS INCOME AND SALES TAXES. THE ONLY STATE TO REPEAL THE DAMNED BRADY BILL AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. THE STATE THAT CONTROLS AND SELLS ALL THE BOOZE, AND FOR CHEAPER THAN ANYONE ELSE DOES. THE STATE THAT ONCE HOUSED FAMOUS SOCIOPATHS G.G. ALLIN AND LYNDON LAROUCHE. NOW IT GIVES BIRTH TO THE NEW REGIME, A CLANDESTINE ORGANIZATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE BRED SCUMBAGS (OF WHICH THE TUNNEL RATS ARE MERELY A MEANS TOWARD DISSEMINATING OUR VIEWS) WHOSE SOLE INTENT IS TO CREATE SUCH AN ATMOSPHERE OF TERROR AND VIOLENCE THAT ALL OF THOSE HIPPY FUCKS WHO MOVED HERE FROM MASSACHUSETTS, CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK ETC WILL GO BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM. THEY HAVE BROUGHT THIS FATE ON THEMSELVES. THEY CAME IN AND BUILT STRIP MALLS, QUEER RESTAURANT CHAINS, DUMB TOURIST STOPS, AND TRIED TO START A MOVEMENT TO GET “LIVE FREE OR DIE” TAKEN OFF THE LICENSE PLATES OF THIS GREAT STATE. WELL PAYBACK TIME IS COMING, THIS RECORD IS ONLY A WARNING.

LIVE FREE OR DIE!, Duke Crevanator