Steve Cropper doing his best Link Wray? Yeah, you'd bite. The effort was there though it ended up sounding like Wray doing light weight surf. But a solid "A" for effort. That it was released on Stax makes it an oddity enough. Here's what Cropper said of it:
"That I was sort of a pickup of where the high school band had left off,"..."'Restless' was actually written when we were in high school. We had actually demoed it in Jim's garage or at least out in Brunswick, Tennessee. It was sort of a takeoff on a Link Wray kind of idea. I think we were just kind of satisfying our egos. We'd just say, 'We want to do this.' 'Okay, fine, you want to do this, go play with it: We'd go in and cut these things and then what do you do, put them on the shelf and forget about them? No, we'd put them out. It was a pressing bill and we had enough hits to back it up so it was not a bad shot."
"That I was sort of a pickup of where the high school band had left off,"..."'Restless' was actually written when we were in high school. We had actually demoed it in Jim's garage or at least out in Brunswick, Tennessee. It was sort of a takeoff on a Link Wray kind of idea. I think we were just kind of satisfying our egos. We'd just say, 'We want to do this.' 'Okay, fine, you want to do this, go play with it: We'd go in and cut these things and then what do you do, put them on the shelf and forget about them? No, we'd put them out. It was a pressing bill and we had enough hits to back it up so it was not a bad shot."
What the fuck. It's a great badass-enough instrumental. And you may never hear it again. Again, what the fuck.
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Listen:The Cobras - Restless mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Go there to get it.
The Cobras - Shake Up (streaming) at YouTube
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