Skatt Bros, Walk The Night | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 48th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Walk The Night,” the gay club anthem performed by half-gay/half-straight rock band, Skatt Bros.

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  Here, we provide background and insight into musicians, analyze, plus go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When songs dictate deeper and more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome, whether the songs are classics or brand-new. So, without further ado, in the 48^th edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “Walk The Night” performed by Skatt Bros.

The LGBTQ+ catalog has expanded dramatically in the 2020s. Music has become queerer, which is awesome, of course – queering that pitch 🌈! However, in the past, there have also been ample examples of queer music, perhaps more than you’d expect. Ain’t nothin’ new under the sun, she-it! Even though some of the past music wasn’t explicitly queer as the music now, the gay anthems exist, honey! One of those gay gems is “Walk The Night” by the Skatt Bros, dubbed ‘the sleazier, more extreme Village People’: “Hey, gonna walk the night / Hey, walk the night.” Nightwalking is dangerous, risqué, and sexual, as you can surmise. In the hands of Skatt Bros, it is ‘not that innocent,’ judging by the lyrics, as well as the epic instrumental. “Walk The Night” is the fourth track on the band’s 1979 album, Strange Spirits.  David Andez and Richie Fontana wrote “Walk,” while the band, Ian Guenther, and Willi Morrison produced it.

“Walk The Night” catches the ears from the beginning. The driving bass line has a compelling argument as the star of the instrumental. It kicks ass and takes names setting the tone for the dangerous experience.  The guitar and drums also have their fair share of moments, making “Walk The Night” a high-energy and spirited song. Recurring malicious, sinister, and twisted laughs are part of the charm of this sexually charged joint. Playful, low-pitched vocals express the creepy, suspect happenings on “Walk.” “Creeper gonna reaper gonna creep and walk the night,” he sings, adding, “Creeper got mad and angry eyes / One look from him can paralyze / Resist at any time or place / Creeper done slap right ‘cross your face.” Slapped what, Skatt Bros? I have an idea 😈, but I’ll leave that alone… While Creeper is one aggressive mofo, it is the next verse where things go south.

“Upon his lips the taste of pain

Venom kiss of love insane

He’s got a rod beneath his coat

He’s gonna ram right down your throat

Make you grovel on the floor

Spit up and scream and beg for more.”

Technically, it’s not as explicit as some more modern sex songs.  But let’s not lie to ourselves, folks.  Oral sex is simulated here.  That rod is all natural, and likely a most fulfilling size 🫢 🤭. Ever heard of a gag reflex? The scream, instead of a moan, suggests pain, yet the recipient wants more. It’s giving S&M. And, if there was doubt, Skatt Bros add: “He’ll whip ya and strip ya down / A hot shot / Gotcha!” Holy cannoli! Better yet, holy shit! Maybe unholy shit is the best characterization! What more can you say but, “Da dit dit dit doy doo, da dit dit dit doy doo.” “Walk The Night” is wild, and that is why it goes H.A.M.! Hard rock and disco by a half-gay/half-straight band that is ready-made for the gay club! Yaass, please!  Notably, the 12” version of “Walk The Night” is the ninth and final track on the expanded edition of the album.