Editor’s note: “Overlooked in Ohio” is a feature in which we ask an Ohio-based artist/music enthusiast to tell us about a band or bands from the state of
Prisonshake, original lineup, circa 1987(?)
Prisonshake was one of my favorite bands in my late teens -- and lucky me, they were a local Cleveland band too. Still love them.
Doug Enkler is one of my favorite singers and frontmen. Their song “Fairfield Ave. Serenade” was one of the first songs Jim and I ever tried to cover when New Bomb Turks were starting up.
Click on the headline there, and that’s an article I wrote about the band for the Columbus-based website, Done Waiting. It features lots of stuff on the band I had to cut out of my book, We Never Learn.
Prisonshake leader/guitarist/singer Robert Griffin went on to run the great Scat Records label. He’s been uploading nearly all the Prisonshake stuff, check it out here.
“And ya just can’t go wrong if you always make sure you have nothing to do, and plenty of time to do it in.”
