Tributes to the legendary Hasil "The Haze" Adkins

• He'd out fight, out fuck, out drink, and out sing the majority of musicians. He did it his own way. No other motherfucker was talkin' about cutting off heads and putting them on walls back in the fifties. And that's way more punk rock than anything. -Hank Williams III


• His rhythm, man. I loved Hasil's rhythm... and he ate a lot of raw hamburger, too! -Rick Miller (Southern Culture on the Skids)


• He makes GG Allin look like Merv Griffin. -Julien Nitzberg (The producer of the Wild World of Hasil Adkins and associate producer of the Dancing Outlaw)


• He was the "Wildman from Van." Undoubtedly, the world's greatest one man band. -Joe Buck (Hank William III's Damn Band and Assjack)


• I think he was the king of Rock & Roll. He's like everything thats Rock & Roll. -Angry Johnny (Angry Johnny and the Killbillies)


• Hasil was kind of a mythic sort of figure, you know. And sometimes life is never that easy for a myth. -Dexter Romweber (the Flat Duo Jets)


• GG Allin actually opened up for Hasil Adkins. And man, that was a crazy show. -John Steele (the Empty Glass Pub in Charleston, WV)


• Then Hasil showed up with his "bottles of water" (vodka) and he did a show that was like a history of Rock & Roll. -Scott H. Biram

(These quotes are taken from the new Hasil documentary My Blue Star: the Life & Hunchin' Times of Hasil "Haze" Adkins.)