Whats the origin of the bands name, Two Tons of Steel?
I love old cars. That goes back to the rockabilly thing. I have this crazy passion for old Cadillacs, so I bought a ’56 Coupe de Ville. And I had a flat on it once. And these things are huge; it’s like 21 feet long. So I was driving along and I felt the tire going flat, so I pulled into a Firestone place. And I was talking to the guy about whether he can fix it, and I said, “Dude, that car weighs like two tons. I don’t know whether you can even get it off the ground.” So that’s where Two Tons of Steel came from. It started out as the car’s nickname, then I wrote a song about it. The first album we came out with was Two Tons of Steel by The Dead Crickets, our old name. And weren’t you asked to change the band’s name by The Crickets? Jim Beal at the San Antonio Express-News had done an interview with Jerry Allison, who was the drummer in Buddy Holly’s Crickets. So Jim said, hey, you might want to call him. It took me weeks to get up the nerve to call him. And he said he was okay with the
