Saturday night live I had a little fun at the expense of Hair Metal last night (November 9). A sketch called “Sex Rock CD” featured the episode’s host, comedian Bill Burr, longing for the days of “rock tunes about living fast, dying young and having sex.”
In the sketch, Burr plays a father working on his motorcycle in the garage when his teenage son (played by New SNL Cast member Emil Wakim) enters and is impressed by the rock guitar his father is listening to and exclaims, “Wow, what is this music? “I had never heard anything like that before.”
“This is real music, from when I was a kid,” Burr's character responds. “No autotune, no murmurs, just musicians.” The son then asks, “What was his name?”, and the father replies, “80s sex rock!”
From there, the father introduces his son to the “best” of those bands, Snake Skin, and the new compilation CD, The best of snakeskin: kings of sex rock.
That's when we see Snake Skin in action, played by cast members Andrew Dismukes (lead vocals), Sarah Sherman (bass), and James Austin Johnson (guitar). They perform songs like “Nah-Nah Train,” a nod to Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train,” but with suggestive lyrics like, “Your nah-nah is a train/ And I'm the passenger/ I'm going to ride your nah-nah/ It's a bumpy ride/ Aboard your nah-nah.”
Other songs included “Havin' Sex on an Escalator (Sex-Scalator)” and “Tear It Down,” much to the chagrin of the son, who tells his father, “Wow, Dad, that sucked!”
From there, the father begins to reconsider his musical tastes, but not before promoting The best of snakeskin again.
look at the SNL “Sex Rock CD” sketch below and catch Bill Burr on a West Coast tour later this month (pick up tickets here).
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