Geriatric rockers 'Lookin' Good' with album The Phoenix Gazette, January 28, 1993 by Dean Rhodes, The Phoenix Gazette Sixteen months after being featured in The Phoenix Gazette, as well as People, The Wall Street Journal and Fortune, Valley geriatric punk rockers One Foot In the Grave will release their debut album, "Lookin' Good... Who's Your Embalmer," on Tuesday. It is on Mojo Nixon's Triple X Records. Eleven of the 13 songs are Grave originals. (They cover The Dead Milkmen's "Bitchin' Camaro" and The Ramones' "Sedated.") One Foot In The Grave - 52-year-old lead singer JoDina, 49-year-old bassist Gavan Wieser, 75-year-old drummer Gino Costa and new 69-year-old guitarist Bill Haislip - sing rock 'n' roll from a Sun City perspective. The band's original guitarist, 75-year-old Danny Walters, appears on "Lookin' Good" but since has left the group. JoDina says Walters' wife wouldn't let him tour without her. "She saw three 25-year-olds throwing themselves at the band members," JoDina says. "I don't know why that upset her - three 25-year-olds equals a 75-year-old, doesn't it?" "Lookin' Good" races through the 13 songs in just over 31 minutes, adopting the dash and thrash attitude of late '70s punk bands. JoDina will never be considered a singer, but her whines, screams and shouts serve the aging angst material well. Arrangements offer few textures, based primarily on Costa's fast-paced tempos, and economic guitar solos from Walters and guest guitarist Ron Morey. Songs are pretty much summed up in their titles. "Menopause" deals with the frustrating hormonal fluctuations of the change of life, while "Clean Up Your Room" tries to provide incentive to a slovenly teenager. One Foot In the Grave's best and most intelligent composition (can you say "single") is "Aches, Pains, Capital Gains." Co-written by Wieser and Dick Hatton, it goes: "We've paid Social Security. We don't like to complain, but life's gettin' nutzo. Sometimes it's the pits when we see our friends in the obits. " JoDina says distributors in Germany, Holland, France and Spain have ordered "Lookin' Good." One Foot In the Grave's album release party will be 9 to 10 p.m. and 11 to midnight Feb. 5 at Hollywood Alley, 2610 W. Baseline Road, Mesa. The band also opens for former Doors guitarist Robby Krieger at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 at Anderson's Fifth Estate, 6820 E. Fifth Ave., in Scottsdale. Too bad for One Foot In The Grave that radio stations like KXAM, which target older audiences, won't play punk rock, no matter how relevant the lyrics. Last update 10-Mar-2002. © One Foot In The Grave. Contact us or sign the Guest Book.