| Billy's Live Bait | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Gear Daddies |
| Cover: | BillysLB.jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Rock, Country rock |
| Length: | 35:54 |
| Label: | Polygram |
| Producer: | Tom Herbers, Gear Daddies |
| Prev Title: | Let's Go Scare Al |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Can't Have Nothin' Nice |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Billy's Live Bait is the second album by Austin, Minnesota band the Gear Daddies, released in 1990.[1] It was their first release for a major label.[2]
"(I Wanna Drive the) Zamboni" is often played at hockey rinks.[3]
AllMusic called the album "sometimes poignant and often humorous." The Chicago Reader called it "terrific," writing that, compared to the debut, "the record is less naive, has more shape, and rocks out more confidently."[4] Trouser Press wrote that "the quartet upgrades its sound and rocks more forcefully, with [Martin] Zellar and [Randy] Broughten bouncing guitar rhythms off one another."[5] The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Though often as dark and unsettling as Al, Billy is more outward-looking, less concerned with small circles."[6] The Los Angeles Times wrote that "the Gear Daddies’ basic, garage-rock style is brightened by a touch of country-music color and twang, but the heart of the quartet’s vision is in the passionate, liberating edge of Zellar’s songs and in the warm, almost conversational tone of his vocals."[7]