Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 32-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith.
Someone in Germany sent us an mp3 of their band covering Mecca Normal’s “Who Told You So?”—the first song on our first album. If, in 1986, someone had told me that 30 years in the future, this might happen, I would not have believed them!
You can listen to the Mecca Normal version of “Who Told You So?” in Vol. 275 of Normal History below the caption of David Lester’s fitting illustration “I’d Rather Play Punk Rock Guitar.”
“Fallen Skier” from the album The Observer (Kill Rock Stars, 2006) (download):
