Band: Electric Six Members: Dick Valentine, Percussion World, Tait Nucleus, Smorgasbord, Johnny Na hinal, The Colonel Song: Gay Bar, Part 2 Album: Flashy. Gay Bar Electric Six Track 8 on Fire The idea for this song came up from incorrectly hearing the lyrics of DEVO’s Girl U Want as it’s just a girl, it’s just a girl at a gay bar while the song. They found international success through a relentless touring and recording schedule and an unerring commitment to their over-the-top style, delivering energy and absurdity in equal measure. After winning a local following as the Wildbunch, Electric Six scored a major hit in the U.K. in 2003 with the song 'Danger! High Voltage,' and their debut album Fire, released the same year, earned them a major cult following with tunes like 'Dance Commander' and 'Gay Bar.' From that point on, musicians would come and go from the Electric Six lineup and the proportions of electronics to guitars would shift back and forth from album to album, but their essential formula of dance-friendly rock brimming with bombast and lunacy would never change.
Electric Six is a rock band from Detroit, Michigan famous for the top-5 hits Gay Bar and Danger High Voltage.
From 2005 onward, not a year would go by without a new E6 album and a string of shows in which Dick Valentine and Co.