Out There!- “Shake For The Sheik”, “Walking Through Walls”, & “I’ll Be There” (The Escape Club’s Lesser-Known Hits)
We all remember the Escape Club, right? Back in 1988, none of us could escape The Escape Club and their smash hit, Wild Wild West. Wild Wild West hit the top of the charts, and was supposed to lift the band to further acclaim. Sorry, but it didn’t happen! Yet, the Escape Club would be known for another song, but I’ll get to that in a little bit. Wild Wild West was on pop radio every fifteen minutes, and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. One of MTV’s legendary and best-known videos, it featured these strange combo arms and legs (without a crotch) getting down to the beat.  Twenty years later, and I still haven’t gotten those flopping arms out of my head!  The Escape Club consisted of a singer who could pass as Bono’s younger brother (Trevor Steel), “Booger Presley” on the lead guitar (John Holliday- doesn’t he look like Booger from Revenge Of The Nerds? If not, how about Eric Bogosian?), the rasta-haired bassist (Johnni Christo) and the quiet Steven Seagal inspired pony-tailed drummer with no personality (Milan Zekavica). You know what? Even twenty years later, the song still hasn’t aged one bit.
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