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The f*#kin’ Jesus Lizard, man.” That’s how people talked about them back in the day, a sentence fragment usually uttered in either a whisper or bemused snicker. The Jesus Lizard were too good to be ignored, but they’d never be ready for prime time. They were too weird, too ugly, too real. If they caught their fair share of shit from indie purists when they signed to a major label, it was as much because of befuddlement as corporate skepticism: how the hell was this band gonna go over on “modern rock” radio, sandwiched between Pearl Jam and Better Than Ezra? The answer, of course, was that they weren’t, but still, they were on the edge of mainstream radar: more popular bands than them regularly sang their praises (and of course, David Wm. Sims and David Yow’s prior combo, Scratch Acid, a gnarled combo of punk ferocity and punch drunk, mid-tempo menace, were a cornerstone influence on Seattle grunge). They made national headlines for indecent exposure on Lollapalooza’s main stage in 1995. Hell, even Beavis and Butthead were talking about them.

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