In a perfect world, Durocs would have songs on all the hot playlists. Songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Scott Mathews and Ron Nagle, a musician/singer/songwriter (and ceramic sculptor) became a successful songwriting team in 1975. In 1979, they decided to turn their partnership into a band, thus becoming Durocs, named after a breed of pig known for having very large ears and testicles. They released one album on Capitol, who had no idea how to market the band. After an incident where Nagle and Mathews set loose a parade of midgets playing a fanfare on trumpets and a host of squealing pigs into a Capitol Records sales meeting being held by the company president, the Durocs were dumped from the label. Mathews went on to produce several gold and platinum albums, as well as work on a variety of Oscar-winning film projects and Grammy Award-winning songs and albums. Nagle focused on his main career in ceramics, serving as both an acclaimed artist and a teacher...but he's still writing and recording music, and he has an album, "She Lied," due to be released this year. In the meantime, I need to find my old 45 copy of Durocs "It Hurts To Be In Love" for one or two more spins.
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