X Marks the Spot

"We've been in a drought, so I pulled off the roof of my house. Then it rains! So I kinda had my ass kicked. This old reel-to-reel four-track machine I've been lugging around was right in the path of a waterfall. I guess I'll have to give it away to somebody."

It's a gesture not exactly in keeping with the times.

One man's treasure: Producer/multi-instrumentalist Spot does his impression of a junkyard dog.

Details

with Drag the River

9 p.m. Thursday, August 24, Lion's Lair, 2022 East Colfax Avenue, $5, 303-320-9200

8 p.m. Sunday, August 27, Surfside, 150 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, $4, 1-970-221-4291

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While the ex-Dead Kennedys sue Jello Biafra over unpaid royalties and musclehead-thespian Henry Rollins mouths voice-overs for car commercials, one of punk's long-lost tribal elders tinkers with his '61 Ford Falcon and tends to his leaky roof. And dreams of the Emerald Island.