It's a new week, which means it's time for a new installment of Bobble Tiki's South Sound music news and notes column. Without further ado, let's get rolling...

Bobble Tiki doesn't need any help feeling old.    Every morning when Bobble Tiki wakes up, rolls out of bed, and feels the weight of decades and decades of blue-collar decadence, cheap wine, and generic cigarettes, Bobble Tiki is reminded of just how old he is.  What a long, strange, drunk trip it's been.

Still, while Bobble Tiki doesn't need any help feeling old, that's not to say reminders aren't around every corner.

For instance, did you know Molly Hatchet is playing Saturday in Spanaway, at Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill?

It's true.  Bobble Tiki shits you not.

Well removed from the band's prime in the late ‘70s, a time Bobble Tiki remembers fondly (if only because various chemicals ingested have limited his recollections of all the crappy stuff), Molly Hatchet - naturally - isn't exactly the same band you may remember; the band that captured some of Lynyrd Skynyrd's heat after the Southern Rock movement was left without its premiere name; the band that made a name by "workin' hard, playin' tough, livin' fast, and ‘Flirtin' with Disaster.'"  These days, after years removed, the Hatchet is made up of OG Dave Hlubek, along with Bobby Ingram, Phil McCormack, John Galvin, Tim Lindsey and Shawn Beamer.  Though it's not exactly the lineup that made them famous, by the accounts of those willing to give the current-day Molly Hatchet a chance, the band can still bring it. 

Spanaway will find this out Saturday, though Bobble Tiki also feels fairly certain many in Spanaway are not aware of the fact it's no longer 1978. So it might not matter.

For those who haven't been following Molly Hatchet (and honestly, how dare you!), some things have changed and some things have stayed the same.  For instance, Molly Hatchet imagery is still full of stallions and dark castles and knights and swords and stuff.  However, this imagery can now be found online - on the band's website - not just on record sleeves used as bong coasters at your dealer's house. Bobble Tiki calls this progress.

Also, and sadly, two former stars of Molly Hatchet, singer Danny Joe Brown - who took the vocal reigns from guitarist Dave Hlubek, is responsible for some of the band's biggest hits, and brought a gravelly but warm presence to the mic during two stints with Molly Hatchet, died in 2005 - having suffered from diabetes and the effects of a massive stroke. He was 53.

Original Molly Hatchet guitarist Duane Roland also died at age 53 (at least by Bobble Tiki's math), of what has only been classified as natural causes. This happened in 2006. To no one's surprise, Roland was in the South when he passed, at his home in St. Augustine, Florida. 

Molly Hatchet, originally from Jacksonville, is perhaps one of the biggest things to come out of Florida outside of election fraud and retirement communities.

Which, at this rate, Bobble Tiki is going to need any day now.

But not before he sees Molly Hatchet this Saturday at Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill.  Perhaps the band can give Bobble Tiki a lift back?

See you next week.  

[Uncle Sam's American Bar & Grill, with Snootch, The Aury Moore Band, Saturday, Aug .28, 7 p.m., $24.50-$29.50, 16003 Pacific Ave., Spanaway, 253.507.7808]