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LORI HEHR PUBLIC RELATIONS
TUNER/Pole: Except for the SACD jewel box, everything about this set screams 60’s (and a little early 70’s progressive Kraut rock). King Crimson drummer rounds up a German guitarist and several guests to provide the vocals and damn if I’m not sitting in the Billingsgate offices circa 1973 listening to new stuff from Inga Rumpf, Neu and Lucifer’s Friend. Pass the Amon Duul and Hawkwind and ditch that commercial sell out stuff like Kraftwerk. Oddly enough , this music is informed more by Peter Gabriel and NIN than the aforementioned antediluvian references with it’s industrial/world fusion. If this isn’t malcontent music without the headache factor, I don’t know what is.
1 (Unsung)
BLACK BONZO/Sound of the Apocalypse: Sets like this make you love the great mixmaster that is time. A band that grew up loving Queen as much as Camel ventures out into today with a set that mixes bombast with progressive moves and serves up the 70’s as an 00’s entree. Oddly enough, they seem to hate the same excesses of the time as much as I do and I find this a real kick. Whether you are into a 70’s prog retro thing or were there the first time and are jaded by your mortgage payments and divorces, this is the proper kick in the pants both of you can use. Fun stuff that’s really giving my sweet tooth for this stuff a grand time. Be sure to check this out, particularly if you thought “Wayne’s World” was a documentary.
1048 (Laser’s Edge)
YELLOW DOG
SOUL OF JOHN BLACK/Good Girl Blues: I remember all the static Bruce Iglauer got when he moved Alligator from Hound Dog Taylor to Delbert McClinton in recognition that you have to keep moving and Yellow Dog might be in line for the same static as well. John Black, aka John Bingham, was a member of Fishbone for 8 years, played with Miles Davis, Nikka Costa, Emenem and everyone else so you know he’s picked up and deepened a few chops along the way. Forging a new career in the blues, Black/Bingham has made a set that’s just driving me nuts. Drawing on Koerner Ray & Glover as much as Muddy Waters, this is next wave blues/soul that came from the south side of somewhere that’s probably as much a state of mind as it is a physical location. Wonderful stuff for young, proto-blues fans that don’t get what the old stuff is about and wonder what Muddy is talking about when he says he’s “a main” but do know there’s something going on they want to get closer to. Now go cure those jellyroll blues and step into the future. Killer stuff.
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Volume 30/Number 270
July 28, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
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Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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