Hear 'I've Been Everywhere' From L.A. Rats Today

L.A. Rats, the new supergroup featuring Nikki Sixx, Rob Zombie, John 5 and Tommy Clufetos, will release their debut single today. The song is a cover of "I've Been Everywhere." The track will be on the upcoming soundtrack for the movie The Ice Road. Here's the lyric video:

“I’ve Been Everywhere,” off the official soundtrack for #TheIceRoad is available everywhere tomorrow 🐀 check out the movie & soundtrack 6.25 @Netflix pic.twitter.com/bAtrj2kV0N

— 📷 (@NikkiSixx) May 20, 2021

Comments

[Him]

Did you like The Fast and The Furious? Well, you are gonna love The Slow and the Pensive . . . ON ICE!!! I kid. I like Liam Neeson's late-stage career as an old man with 'skills'. Sure, some of the movies have traded a bit too much off Taken and provided a lot less that was interesting. But I fell in love with him in Darkman (though I still wonder what that movie would have been like with Bruce Campbell). And I preferred the chest-beating machismo (with the requisite signs of sensitivity and concern) of Rob Roy to Mel Gibson's Braveheart (even if he, like Neeson, has settled into a solidly okay late-stage career, if one can forgive his transgressions).

Oh, the topic? Another super-ish group? Hmm. I will reserve judgment. Who wrote the lyrics? I can't imagine Zombie and Sixx, sitting by a fire, swapping ideas. John 5 is awesome. Clufetos is, well, he is more than amazing when it comes to making sure his sticks are in the air a lot. That takes talent (and the backing of Mr. and Mrs. Osbourne!). To be fair, Ward can't do it anymore. Then again, Clufetos can't do it . . . nah, too easy for a non-musician like me. Good for him.

I can see this supergroup touring the world, shortly after the really big tour that everyone is itching for . . . in 2022. This smells like it should have been released by Frontiers.

[Him]

My apologies. It is a Cash cover. I have heard it. I should have paid more attention. I didn't.

My humble opinion: Nope. No way. If you squint, it is goofy fun. But, if you don't, so much worse the experience. Supergroups come out slamming. This sounds like a Zombie toss-off.

[Kixchix]

Utter crap! Nikki. Retire in Montana. Rob. Make a mediocre slasher flick. 5. Stop clinging to 80’s & 90’s geezers and do something peeps may like on your own. Tommy. Whatever.

Disgracia!!!

[Gary]

I’m gonna wait to hear it. Always liked the song. Let’s see the treatment it underwent. 😂😂 @Him I can’t fathom how you couldn’t possibly picture Mr’s Ferrano and Cummings sitting (properly crossed legged) by the fire, sipping herbal tea while comparing tattoo’s and lyrical possibilities and discussing pertinent world problems. 😂😂👍

[Gary]

Ok, so I just heard it. Waaay to industrialized for this guy. Other than John 5’s killer slide guitar solo, I’ll take Johnny Cash’s killer version 10 out of 10 times.

[GNR]

Liam Neeson is slowly turning into the take any part Nicholas Cage book of career choices.

"Debut" single is hard cover of the Man in Black ? Lame. Who in the hell promotes their debut single hot off the presses to a cover ? Johnny's version swings as the destinations just rolls off his tongue, this version ? Not so much.

Talent for sure, but wasted. Rather listen to Rob, Slash, Tommy Lee, Gilby, etc... covered Kiss's God of Thunder.

[texjay]

Hmm..yuk.

[Gary]

@Him You’re gonna love Neesons next movie then. It’s hear it’s called “Quickie Mart”, and Liam plays a jaded convenience store clerk who chases clues around the world determined to track down the 2 teenagers who stole a Slim Jim and a pack of Newport 100’s. “Snap into the suspense”, as Liam is a man who takes his greasy snack foods seriously...

[crued]

^^^^^^^^ Hahahahaha

[Him]

Gary, I have already ordered it on Amazon as a pre-release! It is gonna be awesome! And the idea of the fireside chat that you provided is just detailed enough that I almost felt I was there, handing them the necessary ingredients to make S'mores (but not good music).

GNR, you are giving a bit too much/too little credit to the sorta' stuff that Cage routinely takes, and a bit less to what Neeson has done in this stage of his career. Like I said, stinkers abound. But Neeson knows what he knows, gets paid, and occasionally it is fun viewing. Like Denzel Washington, he is aiming lower these days. But, again, occasionally, he swings and hits. And he has the gravitas to make even a horrid movie almost excusable. Gibson, as I mentioned, is in the same league as Neeson, and nowhere near Cage either. But he has his late-stage clunkers too (Force of Nature was not a force of nature). He also, like Cage, shares the issue of having a host of person problems that impact how people view him (though not any instances where he was caught talking down Neil in a casino, as far as I know).

That said, what Cage does these days is also occasionally . . . well, interesting. Color Out of Space was just what Mandy should have been, though the latter is still an interesting watch. The idea behind Willy's Wonderland (a riff on a video game!) is fun as an idea: Cage doesn't speak. But it is quite muddled as a movie (though his one pinball scene hints, just hints, at what the film could have been). Cage has been if far more DTV movies than Neeson. He takes projects on like he used to swap up Michael Jackson curios. So, respectfully, I think Neeson is a touch better on the offering scale than Cage, even if Cage still has talent (just not as much discretion).

[Gogmagog]

"I've Been Everywhere" isn't a Johnny Cash song. In fact, it isn't even a Hank Snow song, which is the version (recorded in 1962) my parents played to me as a kid. It was originally written in the late 1950s by an Aussie bloke named Geoff Mack, who used wonderful Australian towns such as Ballarat and Canberra and Woolloomooloo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OZWi-mTkNU

That said, I kinda liked the L.A. Rats version. Almost like heavy metal finger picking from John 5.

[Him]

Gogmagog, thanks for schooling us yokels! Truly. I love that we can get fact-checked and learn a little something.

That said, and after getting a chance to listen to the original, let me ask you a question: does it seem like they are covering the cover that most of us yokels know? And I ask that respectfully, as I had never heard the Snow version either (which also seems, pacing-wise, to be closer to the original than the Cash version I knew). Just curious as to your take on it.

And you are spot-on about John 5. He is probably the best member of this 'super group', in terms of talent and range (again, as a non-musician). I really want to hear that unreleased album he did with DLR. I hope it sees the light of day! Noting that, I will say that some of the newer Zombie stuff with him on it is closer (just closer) to the vibe that got some people into Zombie in the first place. And he is a hoot live with Zombie. Doesn't even need to stand on phone books like the singer!

Again, thanks for educating. Appreciated.

[Gogmagog]

So this has been an educational experience for me, too, because I've certainly learned a lot that I didn't know before the other day.

I was unaware Cash recorded a version of this. (Apparently it was used in a tv advert, but I watch next to no television, so I didn't know that, either.) Rolling Stone did a piece on the song three years ago, and said it was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers who backed Cash on his 1996 cover. (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/flashback-ive-been-everywhere-puts-hank-snow-johnny-cash-on-the-map-666807/)

I also learned that in 1955, Hank Snow signed Elvis Presley to the management company he co-owned with Colonel Tom Parker. Never would have guessed that in a million years. (https://www.sunrecords.com/artists/elvis-presley)

Now that I've listened to it, I think @Him is correct, in that John 5's rhythm guitar seems to be based on what Petty and the Heartbreakers put down with Cash. I can hear that, stylistically, Snow's version is different, but I'm no expert on the subtle differences between country and western styles so I won't even speculate. Without the Blues Brothers, I wouldn't even know there were differences!!!

[Him]

Awesome response, Gogmagog. That is the great thing about this place (for the most part). No rancor (again for the most part). Just people interested in music that they love, trading barbs, telling stories, and exchanging POVs. Thanks for the additional sources as well. I love it when I can dive a bit deeper into topics.

[Metalboy!]

This is KILLER!!!

However ...

Not so sure they can make the whole notion of this being a Super Group last for very long, simply because of the saminess of Rob Zombie’s vocal delivery ...