Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
DMZ
DMZ
(Sire 1978, reissued on Sepia Tone, 2004)
Boston throwback garage goons goose MOJO messageboarder.
After three decades of fallout from the volcanic vom-spew of punk, the dust has settled and assimilated into culture as we know it, and the failures of the time can start to look like successes in the great scheme of things. Often derided for the solitary, no-good reason that it was produced by Flo & Eddie, Boston garage punk masters DMZ's lone major league offering deserves a second take in the here and now. Weaned from the same teats that fed the Sonics, the Stooges, the Chocolate Watchband and the New York Dolls, these masters of the form built the bridge between the mid-'60s and late-'70s garage aesthetic. Led into battle by Mono Mann aka Monoman aka Jeff Conolly (a wild shouter who gives Iggy run for his money in the raw power department) the band tear through the set with a delicious viciousness and jump right into the deep end with Mighty Idy, a furious Sonics-like pounder that always reminds me of the insanity of speeding late at night through Beantown's corkscrew traffic nightmare, Mass Ave. They ratchet up the energy levels with Bad Attitude, Don't Jump Me Mother and Destroyer, all self-explanatory signature-sound classics. They even pay tribute to their forefathers in punk with covers of The Sonics' Cinderella and The Wailers' Out Of Our Tree. So why's the rep so bad-to-nonexistent? Well, some folks thought Bowie screwed up Raw Power, so naturally Flo & Eddie had no business by the boards at this keg party. Me, I like the MainMan mix jus' fine, and I rock this platter whenever the world's gotta end. Perhaps you'll feel the same? Crack it open, give it a turn and feel the burn!
Scorpiomoon
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 03/09/2010
Further Listening
Lyres – Lyres Lyres (New Rose, 1986)
Nervous Eaters – Hot Steel & Acid (New Rose, 1986)
The Sonics – The Sonics Boom (Etiquette, 1966)
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Ha! Ha! GREAT ALBUM!!!
Posted by T. Mahler Esq. at 10:08 AM GMT 03/09/2010 Report Abuse
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Remnants of this group went on to bring great music to the Boston scene in the late '70s and '80s. Peter Greenberg, Mono and Murphy had a few thunderous years as the garage kings of the East Coast in The Lyres, and then Greenberg formed Barrence Whitfield and the Savages (whose rare first LP on Mamou will get a great reissue package soon on Ace, with 10 extra tracks of studio outtakes and live gems) with the 3/4 of The Lyres at the time (minus Mono, who still keeps The Lyres rocking).
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Remnants of this group went on to bring great music to the Boston scene in the late '70s and '80s. Peter Greenberg, Mono and Murphy had a few thunderous years as the garage kings of the East Coast in The Lyres, and then Greenberg formed Barrence Whitfield and the Savages (whose rare first LP on Mamou will get a great reissue package soon on Ace, with 10 extra tracks of studio outtakes and live gems) with the 3/4 of The Lyres at the time (minus Mono, who still keeps The Lyres rocking).
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Whatever happened to Jack Hickey who played geetar in one of the Lyres later lineups. I thought he really styled on that semi solid Gretsch.
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