Molly Hatchet Lead "Singer" Dies at 53

Associated Press | March 14, 2005

[TheEditor]

"Dreams I'll Never See" was the best number Hatchet ever had, and it was an Allman Bros cover. Damn good one though. I'm a fool for Southern Fried rock, but let's not put these guys in the same league as say, Skynyrd.

[mitchbert]

I'm travelin' down the road,
I'm flirtin' with disaster.
I've got the pedal to the floor,
My life is running faster.
I'm out of money, I'm out of hope,
It looks like self destruction.
Well how much more can we take,
With all of this corruption.

Been flirtin' with disaster,
Ya'll know what I mean.
And the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don't know about yourself or,
What you want to be - YEAH.
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
I'm travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load.
Yeah! I've tried to turn my head away,
Feels about the same most every day.

Speeding down the fast lane,
Playin' from town to town.
The boys and I have been burnin' it up,
Can't seem to slow it down.
I've got the pedal to the floor,
Our lives are runnin' faster,
Got our sights set straight ahead,
But ain't sure what we're after.

Flirtin' with disaster,
Ya'll know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don't know about yourself or,
What you plan to be - Yea!!
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
Yeah!! We're travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load.
Don't try to turn my head away,
I'm flirtin' with disaster every day.

Flirtin' with disaster, baby,
Ya'll know what I mean.
You know the way we run our lives,
It makes no sense to me.
I don't know about yourself or,
What you plan to be - Yea!!
When we gamble with our time,
We choose our destiny.

Chorus:
Yeah!! We're travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm dragging a heavy load.
Don't try to turn my head away,
I'm flirtin' with disaster every day.

[TheStickman]

They've done quite well in Europe despite the abscence of any (my info may be outta date) of the original members. They put out a killer CD 2 or so years ago. I played it so much my wife asked me to play something else for a while.

[billorites]

When I was a disc jockey in 1981 or 82 I interviewed Dave Hlubek, lead guitar for Molly Hatchet, one Saturday morning in Utica, NY.

I was a littled P.O.'d because I had been promised by the record promoter an interview with Mick Jagger who had performed the night before, a Friday, at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse where Molly Hatchet was the opening act.

I was pretty messed up that morning and, apparently, Mick was disinclined to drive fifty miles to talk to me so Dave Hlubek was the consolation prize.

He sat in the studio and ate salt and vinegar potato chips while snorting coke off the counter.

I was woozy from the night before and remember getting the whirlies just watching him.

It was February or March and I remember asking him, "Dave, how do you like the upstate New York winters?"

"Oh, they're great!" he replied. "Cold weather makes the girls nips stand out!"

[SamAdams76]

Another musician lost. They just keep dying and dying and dying. When will the madness end? Just recently we've lost Chris Ledoux, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings, Laura Branigan, Dimebag Darrell Abbot, that guy from McFadden and Whitehead, Richard Marx, Johnny Cash, (We Hardly Knew Ye) 'Ol Dirty Bastard, the guitarist in that rock band I can't remember, Andy Gibb and the list goes on and on and on of dead musicians. When WILL this madness end?

I remember Molly Hatchet well. I was just playing "Flirtin' With Disaster" on my iPod not too long ago. After a quarter century, that song still rocks hard.

[pissant]

Well, I sympathize with your wife.

[freedumb2003]

So young.

Diabetes can be managed, but it takes some effort. There is no reason for someone to die of Diabetes in today's world.

[TheStickman]

http://www.richardmarx.com/flash.html

For a dead guy he sure is busy. He's not let anyone know he's dead yet cuz he keeps showin' up for gigs.

[TheStickman]

Funny part was....she bought me the CD as a gift LOL!

[toothfairy86]

RIP DJB! I think one year in the early eighties, Def Leppard opened up for them. (Or was it vice versa?) Anyway it was a strange combo.

[OSHA]

"..us Southern/Confederate boys are gonna miss you."

And the pople said "Amen."

[herewego]

R.I.P. Danny- I still have your 8 track laying around here somewhere..

[socal_parrot]

RIP...

[lunarbicep]

I had never heard of this band until a friend once played "Dreams" for me. We were both surprised that I knew the words to a song I'd never heard before... finally when the smoke cleared, I realized it was a remake. I got to see them live in the late 70's performing after "Nantucket" and before "The Outlaws". That concert still conjures fuzzy but fond memories. Thankfully we'll always have the tunes.

Rest in peace

[Friend of thunder]

In 1979 the next album, "Flirtin' With Disaster," sold over 2 million copies.

Oh $hit, that makes feel old.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I dated his ex-wife many moons ago. She severed him papers while he was performing in Augusta,GA. He trashed the dressing room after the concert.

[RasterMaster]

Just one more morning I had to wake up with the blues. Pulled myself out of bed, put on my walking shoes. Went up on the mountain to see what I could see. The whole world was falling right down in front of me.

Chorus: ’cause I’m hung up on my dreams I’ll never see. Yeah babe, oh help me babe. Or this will surely be the end of me, yeah.

Pull myself together, put on a new face, Climb down off the hilltop baby, And get back in the race.

’cause I’m hung up on dreams I’ll never see, Yeah babe, oh help me babe, Or this will surely be the end of me, yeah.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You, my friend, were a man-whore - you dated everyone! lol

[Xenalyte]

AM, might you please remove the stunningly disrespectful quotation marks from the title?

[elmer fudd]

I was never that big of a fan, but they had some of the coolest album covers of all time.