“Star Spangled Girl”
by Sky Sunlight Saxon Universal Stars Peace Band
1984 song
Sky Saxon’s band channels 1970s Black Sabbath even more than elsewhere on the delirious "Star Spangled Girl", one of the hopped-up missives from the 1984 LP Masters Of Psychedelia. The resemblance is uncanny at times, if slightly less ably played. The main riff borrows from Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” but scattershot drumming box in the song where Alice’s was all about the exhilaration of bursting free.
Sky Saxon, as usual for this album, is double-tracked. He is especially fired up and focused on "Star Spangled Girl", too; this “star-spangled Hawaiian girl”, as he repeatedly yells, really inspires him. She’s “hot like an electric stove” – let nobody say Sky was anything less than a smooth romantic.
"Star Spangled Girl" is relatively short and mostly based on that single riff, the lyrics repetitious variations on a simple theme. In this, if not in its early 80s heavy metal acidity, it recalls some of Sky Saxon’s garage rock of yore.
