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Artist: Gunfire 76 |
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One man who never intends to
be tied to down one genre is Wednesday 13, who right from the
Frankenstein Drag Queens, the Murderdolls. Bourbon Crow and his own
Wednesday 13 bands and projects, has always delivered the goods.
Now he has taken that 70's vibe of the New York Dolls, The Stooges and
early Alice Cooper and come up with his new band Gunfire 76 and their
debut release 'Casualties And Tragedies'.
The album is pure raw sleaze driven rock as it gets underway with 'Let's Kill The Hero', as the gunslinger rock is driven down your throat with an unweilding pleasure and keeps things going with 'Casualties And Tragedies', another guitar fuelled sleaze spectacle that has that raw edginess of the Sunset Strip of the early eighties. The pace is unrelenting with 'Nothings All I Need' before touching on the Poison/Pretty Boy Floyd vibe of 'Loss Angel-less'. Then it's back up to speed with 'Rocket To Nowhere', one of my favourites from the album, this one is slung-down guitar rock at its finest. But there is more to this album that fast paced rockers there are some quite sublime mellower moments like the Cooper like 'One More Reason To Hate You'. This one wouldn’t have been out of place on Alice’s 'Welcome To My Nightmare', it has that same haunting dark rock vibe, self destruction blues. The pace is one again picked up with the guitar driven 'One More Reason To Hate You', again there is that Alice Cooper feel about Wednesday’s vocals on this one. Then there’s a complete change of vibe with the Southern boogie feel of 'Tell You Like It Is', a real foot-tapper with some great guitar licks and a honkie-tonk keyboard to give it that extra Southern vibe. If I to choose one track that I think envisages Wednesday’s dream for this band it would have to be 'What Did You Expect'. This is real sleazy rock for the masses of Glam fans out there, me included, and another one that will have you reaching for the spandex and hairspray is the excellent 'Back To The Gutter'. The album close with
another highlight the mellower hair ballad 'Get Me Through The Night'.
Wednesday has put together a stellar band to join him on this new
venture with Roman Surman and Dave Muselman on guitars, Scott Whalen on
bass duties and completing the line-up we have Rob Hammersmith on
tub-thumper duties. Together they have brought Wednesday’s
vision to light and with a tour eminent here in the UK in early
December, this is gonna one hell of rock show for sure! |
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| Tracklisting:
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Let's Kill The Hero
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