A song written by a Mount Maunganui musician brassed off by boy racers has caused a rumble in radio.
Self-confessed former petrol-head Dash Deller wrote the ditty, titled Bloody Little W*****s In Their Bloody Little Cars, last month to air his frustrations.
He wrote the song in six hours and recorded it as
Dash Deller & the Bogans in just 10 hours, at Kinsella Studios in Tauranga. Todd Kinsella played bass and drums on the track.
Now the song's been picked up by radio stations including Radio Hauraki, bFM and local airwaves, and Mr Deller has hopes of seeing it on TV shows Top Gear, The Footy Show and Breakfast.
The 49-year-old, who works as a brickie's labourer, said he wrote the tune "because no one has done a hard rocking song about it". While the song's title says it all, the verses recall Mr Deller's days growing up in Raglan driving a "Chev Impala" and playing in a rockabilly band.
The song contrasts the 1938 Ford V8s and 1956 Desotos of his youth, and the high-speed boy racer cars of today.
In the song he croons: "Little boy racer, the public's had enough; turn ya cap around and pull ya pants up."
"I compared my teenage life to the boy racers of the today - it's quite different," Mr Deller said.
"We used to have old cars, Yank tanks [American cars]. I used to buy them for $100 and drive them into the ground.
"We never went very fast - our cars didn't go very fast. They were always breaking down. We spent more time pushing them than driving them, trying to start them or running out of petrol."
Today's boy racers, in their souped-up fast cars, were a different breed, Mr Deller said. "Basically, they are bloody little w*****s, but [at the same time], they are our children. We all love them.
"They are not violent, just drive too fast."
And there's a serious message.
"I don't want to see any more of the kids being lost through speed."
Mr Deller has played in bands for 30 years, and even played for Magical Weeze - the band which eventually became Th'Dudes. He claims to have met "hundreds" of rock stars, and even spent a night on the tiles with Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards in Auckland.
Mr Deller, a father of three children aged 16, 20, and 24, said the song was "a bit of fun".
"There are more serious problems than boy racers - the real problems are organised crime and gangs," he said.
- The song is available at the website www.digirama.co.nz.