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Artist: Michael J Roy
Album: The Bright Side
Review by Joe Viglione
Four minutes and fourteen seconds of "The End" opens The Bright Side CD from Fox Pass guitarist Michael J. Roy...no, no, no...not the Doors near twelve minute MFSB epic - referring to a Charles Manson delivery of the Philly Sound's mother/father/sister/brother routine, though in another dimension. Michael punctuates his pop with guitar bursts, leaving Oedipus out of the equation. Track 2, "Same Old Thing," brings the jangle back, but dips it into Gene Parsons territory, something Tom Petty made a career out of. Interesting in that Roy's partner-in-Fox-Pass, Jon Macey, has gone full-out with the Hummingbird Syndicate embracing Sonny Bono/Jack Nitzsche "Needles and Pins" guitar sound. "Impossible Ways," track 3, could be a modern day Searchers in fact, with "Mr. Berserk" taking a similar sound down into the dark side. That's the interesting force at play here, Mr. Roy's optimism in Fox Pass taking a turn into Lou Reed downer territory with vocal work reflecting the titles, "The End," "Mr. Berserk," interestingly finding Reed's Blue Mask emotions than the "bright side" of life, but an album does give one the opportunity to stretch out. With over forty-seven minutes of music, we'll give Mike that latitude. "World Run Wild" shows the Boston area veteran artist his Billy Squier side, the emphasis on hard rock feels like a sequel to "The Stroke" from former Sidewinder Squier's 1981 Don't Say No album. Now this critic is referencing lots of musical textures from other artists, but that's just for the reader to get an idea. Mike Roy is an original and he draws from a bountiful palette to offer something distinctly different from the work that he's known for, the music of New England area legend Fox Pass. "Point of No Return" at four and a half minutes is Hugo Montenegro meets the Doors, and a strong track. "Thin Air" pierces the speakers after the mellow verse while While most of the tunes are in the four minute range, track 10, "A Reason To Live" is the shortest at 2:37, poppy and anthemic, Joan Jett or the late Ben Orr could both have a ball with it.
Album: The Bright Side
Review by Joe Viglione
Four minutes and fourteen seconds of "The End" opens The Bright Side CD from Fox Pass guitarist Michael J. Roy...no, no, no...not the Doors near twelve minute MFSB epic - referring to a Charles Manson delivery of the Philly Sound's mother/father/sister/brother routine, though in another dimension. Michael punctuates his pop with guitar bursts, leaving Oedipus out of the equation. Track 2, "Same Old Thing," brings the jangle back, but dips it into Gene Parsons territory, something Tom Petty made a career out of. Interesting in that Roy's partner-in-Fox-Pass, Jon Macey, has gone full-out with the Hummingbird Syndicate embracing Sonny Bono/Jack Nitzsche "Needles and Pins" guitar sound. "Impossible Ways," track 3, could be a modern day Searchers in fact, with "Mr. Berserk" taking a similar sound down into the dark side. That's the interesting force at play here, Mr. Roy's optimism in Fox Pass taking a turn into Lou Reed downer territory with vocal work reflecting the titles, "The End," "Mr. Berserk," interestingly finding Reed's Blue Mask emotions than the "bright side" of life, but an album does give one the opportunity to stretch out. With over forty-seven minutes of music, we'll give Mike that latitude. "World Run Wild" shows the Boston area veteran artist his Billy Squier side, the emphasis on hard rock feels like a sequel to "The Stroke" from former Sidewinder Squier's 1981 Don't Say No album. Now this critic is referencing lots of musical textures from other artists, but that's just for the reader to get an idea. Mike Roy is an original and he draws from a bountiful palette to offer something distinctly different from the work that he's known for, the music of New England area legend Fox Pass. "Point of No Return" at four and a half minutes is Hugo Montenegro meets the Doors, and a strong track. "Thin Air" pierces the speakers after the mellow verse while While most of the tunes are in the four minute range, track 10, "A Reason To Live" is the shortest at 2:37, poppy and anthemic, Joan Jett or the late Ben Orr could both have a ball with it.
Once upon a time New Rose Records' Fan Club imprint put out Sons of the Dolls, an intriguing look at songs from members of the New York Dolls. If one takes the accumulated tracks of the Fox Pass family tree - 12 songs here, the Stompers, the Jon Macey/Steve Gilligan project, Gilligan's own solo cd's, Hummingbird Syndicate and more, you are talking over a hundred compositions from a talented set of musicians. A digital boxed set of the future, perhaps. The Bright Side presents more than just a follow-up to the previous Eclectricity disc, it is also the musical other side of a musician away from the focus of a working band. It’s an interesting evolution from Eclectricity which included the song "Barely There." Roy takes George Harrison's amazing descending line from Cream's "Badge" - and a good chunk of side 2 of the Beatles Abbey Road - with a folk/poet's reading over a most Beatle-esque spirit. Nice to compare an artist’s work from the previous period with what he does with the current compositions.
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Website: www.mj-roy.com
Release Date: August 6, 2017
Label: Blue Room Records
Welcome to the adds for December 21, 2017
Joe Black Blackenstein
Jesse/Hogg Bros White Trash/Meth Lab
Lou Reed/Metallica Lulu
Joe Black "Blackenstein"....Rocks
by Ed Wrobleski
by Ed Wrobleski
December 21, 2017
Joe Black's first solo album - Blackenstein - does not have a bad cut on the entire album. The title song could be the answer or possible sequel to Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" as Black goes about painting a different picture for each piece on the CD. Unlike some artists who can't seem to get out of their own way, repeating the same style and guitar riff(s) repetition, Joe Black likes to keep the listener's attention by adding clever twists. You can, however, hear some possible influences that may have inspired the founding member of Ball and Chain for this collection of material. Although Black stays within the eighties and nineties classic hard rock genre - for the most part - he does delve into multiple genres, as with the track "Uncle Elihja" with its southern tinged rock flavor to it - very reminiscent of a Lynyrd Skynyrd feel. It's nice to hear a newly written essay paying homage to a veteran classic rock band. "Monster" belongs in a horror film - a classic Halloween / slasher kind of flick where you can visualize the villain doing his dirty work with "Monster" playing throughout it. "Shake A Leg" has some LedZeppelin overtones surrounding its aura while "I Care About You" is paying respect to the great power ballads of a metal time gone by, while painting a portrait of love one may have for a significant other. "Armageddon," the first CD single, will keep the hair band fans happy, but its statement and vision takes it beyond that format. This cd has such an infectious sound that it will just keep you wanting more, 31 minutes and 47 seconds is just not long enough....it's over before it even really gets started. Encore.
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artist: Jesse and the Hogg Brothers
title: White Trash Meth Lab
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- Audio CD (August 4, 2016)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: CD Baby
- Run Time: 45 minutes
- ASIN: B001OFLXXI
Full LULU CD
Full album on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGGif2odABI
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Metallica had only just returned to their fans' good graces with 2008’s Death Magnetic, the band’s heaviest, fastest, most musically gripping offering since 1988’s …And Justice for All.
And then, without warning, or seemingly, forethought, they committed to
working with Reed on a spontaneous, loosely structured jam album
coupled with a lofty literary theme. Titled Lulu, the disc came out on Nov. 1 in North America, and was quickly lambasted by critics and fans.
But maybe the hostility Lulu inspired merits a certain praise. Not since Reed’s unlistenable 1975 album Metal Machine Music had listeners reacted with such hostility to one of his albums. And Metallica fans were more unhappy about Lulu than they had been with 2003’s much-derided St. Anger.
The hostility didn’t come because Reed’s style of singing was
incompatible with Metallica’s tight rhythms – Metallica’s trademark
style of riffing was largely absent. The real problem with Lulu
was that it sounded like both Reed and Metallica were in free-writing
mode, firing off endless stream of consciousness volleys and then
hitting record.http://loudwire.com/lou-reed-metallica-lulu-album-anniversary/
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