Since I find myself sporting the silly cat’s-tongue goatee again, and Jake laughed and pointed at the song when he saw it in a tracklisting, and a little bird tells me that a Gizmos/Dow Jones and the Industrials reunion is imminently impending (well, Memorial Day) in Indy, may I present a silly, silly button that John Barge and Eric White (I believe) went to the trouble of making, oncet upon a time.

It features the mug of Indiana’s own Dale Lawrence, as he found himself in what was described to me as “a serious Dennis Wilson phase.” A click will enlarge the image, and you too can sport your own button.

(The Gizmos and Dow Jones were two of Indiana’s earliest punk/new wave outfits, back in the late seventies – and regulars here already know that Dale is the bandleader for Indy’s own Vulgar Boatmen.)

HAIR ON MY FACE
(Gizmos: Lawrence/Nightshade? maybe just Nightshade)

(transcription by ear and very likely contains errors)

I got hair growin’ out of my face I swear
It just started to curl and gave me quite a scare
I can’t do my wash, I can’t go to shows
It’s all over my teeth and all under my nose
I’m a total disgrace – I got hair on my face

I gotta find a good lawyer who can see my case
Hair on my face