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The Phuss Plays Unapologetic Rock and Roll, Brash, Scary, and Seductive

In Great Balls of Fire, the 1989 film dramatizing the career of Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Lee is rebuked by a young, female, would-be fan: “My mama don't want me listening to rock and roll. She says it leads to impure thoughts.” Dennis Quaid, channeling Lewis’s notorious brashness, quips “mama’s right.” I am not about to quibble over definitions of purity, but there is truth in that scripted remark. To some degree, the mystique of rock and roll has always been about frightening the stuffed shirts. Dallas’s The Phuss recovers some of that spirit of iconoclasm. They are, delightfully, everything the prigs and parsons fear: an animal of reckless temperament, a beautifully destructive sound.
By Dick Sullivan
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