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Georgia Satellites - Georgia Satellites

I'm often asked, "Hey what's your favourite cover song to play live?" More often than not "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" is my reply. They are better songs out there for sure, many that are a lot more challenging, but for sheer goofy shits and giggles this is about as good as it gets. I can remember vividly where I was when I first heard it too. It was the fall of '86 and Expo was winding down and I was in A&B Sound (man I miss that place) and it was being blasted in the store. It was a breath of fresh air. I mean sure there was good old George Thorogood and the Destroyers and I really liked "I Drink Alone" but this was next level shit. I went and asked who it was, and was told it was a band called Georgia Satellites. I'd come to pick up Billy Squier's Enough is Enough , and I'd be leaving with more than one album.  I'd recently picked up Timbuk 3's debut, that also came out in October of 1986, and it was kind of weird ho...