The adventures of Rockatansky saw the light of day in December 2000. The original concept of the band started off one night guitarist Popfuck and Lightning D were hanging out at a thrashing party at the Rock Island Askøy. They came up with an idea for a tribute punk-band to the Romanian goalkeeper from WC Italy 1990. His style and finish were (and still are) qualitys that Rockatansky admire, as well as his mustage, hair, shorts and team-captain qualitys. Lightning D and Popfuck performed a number of legendary jams together. Nevertheless, some problems did occure. One of them was the fact that Popfuck only had two arms, so he could'nt perform both guitar, bass and vocalduties at the same time. They decided to get a vocalist and a bassplayer. Enter: prettyboys Luke Lovegroove and Espen Stockholm. Tommygun had already suggested the name Rockatansky prior to his joining the band. The other guys loved it, although Popfuck suggested Rockatanskiij cause he wanted to find back to the East Europeean roots that is the band true. Other names suggested was Rånabonsky, Rockabonscott and Rockatensing. One thing that is strange is the fact that no one came up with the idea of hiring Tommygun earlier and put Luke on the guitar. After a couple of gigs the guys decided to ask him. He said yes and ROCKATANSKY was rocking and rolling . . . . Late one night Lightning D, Popfuck and Thorbs the Supernaut were out driving faster than a speeding bullet. They ran across some construction-lights left behind by a workingclass-hero. The lights went on a roadtrip with "The Three Muscateers". The problem was that this light never stopped shining. It only caused trouble and soon they had to get rid of it. Today you can find the light if you look really hard outside the southside of the "Florvaag tunnel". This is the story of the first Rockatansky song called "Burning Flaming Problem" and also the favourite song of the members of the stonerband Thulsa Doom. Shortly after the smash-hit "Hey Fellows" was written along with the anthemlike sing along song called "Sing along song". Rockatansky hooked up with the famous jazz producer Eirik Minde and agreed to record an EP. Everything was ready for a studio version of the live band Rockatansky when the members wasted the opportunety. A long and well organiced beerbust made the recording pretty useless. But Rockatansky almost learned from the accident. A well remembred consert at Loftet took it's place. Rumor has it that the junkies on the Iland of Rock had already renamed speed to Rockatansky! Heard from a serious addicted:(AAAAAAAAhhhhhh!! I cant stand it anymore, Gimme some Rockatansky for godsake.) First time "tansky" played in the bigcity was the spring of 2001. The event was Den Stundesløse. The consert had memorable consequenses. This was an act of insanety that had'nt been done on the rock scene of Bergen since the heavy eightys. Before concertstart bandmembers went around the city giving away free tickets for the gig. It was at this point they hooked up with some comedians from NRK (Norwegian Television).
Their names was Nils and Ronny. They came to our show, had a great time and served us Scotch on the rock... People went mad and Rockatansky went drunk. But when Rockatansky gets drunk they tend to get undressed to... Unfortunatelly. The problem in Norway is that it's allowed to hit people, but getting naked is a big no no. Especially at the blue stone in Bergen. Police came and threw some of the members in jail for the night. Guitarist Popfuck had his English Exam the day after but did'nt make it. But some people claim that his english skills are very poor so who gives a rats ass anyway?
Shortly after this apperance Rockatansky made it to the finale of the Eggstock festival. We won second price and the important vote of the audience.Scandals almost took place here as well. The band had a bit to much Bourbon Flame in front of their first playing. This almost qualified to disqualification but the story ended well...