There’s little I can add to the legend of the late Country Dick Montana, a man who could drink a beer with his feet and who died onstage. Except, perhaps, for this cautionary tale. Curb records, with whom the Beat Farmers had a seven record deal, wanted to remove Country Dick from the band. Just as the Rolling Stones ignored the advice to ditch the “vile singer with the tire-tread lips”, the Beat Farmers wisely kept their drummer and ditched their record label.