Saturday, October 13, 2012

Rock-n-Roll Odyssey Day 4: Willamette River, Portland, OR: Moored in perpetuity, here sits the S.S. Sodom, the personal submarine of El Duce from Seattle's The Mentors. The self-described "rape rock" band used the submarine to tour the West Coast many times, but the boat has remained in stasis since El Duce's improbable death by freight train. It now serves as a floating museum, although many a Portland punk can remember the sub, drifting lazily down the Willamette, El Duce, Sickie Wifebeater, and Papa "Sneaky" Spermshooter on the bow, fishing rods in their hands, fishing for all they were worth, while sunlight glinted off the water, like God winking at wayward boys in the primes of their lives and the depths of their filth.


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