TASTE OF AUSSIE ROCK

In my humble opinion, Taste were magnificent, and one of the great things about the band was that they  had  the first "real twin guitar attack" that i'd seen. The whole vibe of the band got me, I saw them on, hmm, probably, on Sounds with Donnie Sutherland...in hindsight they seemed to have had a pop image similar to that of Queen circa "Night at the Opera" which means they were Pomp Rock at its very best- both LP's reached the top twenty in the Australian charts and are absolutely fantastic hard rock classics.

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.At the peak of their career they played to crowds as large as 13,000 people and owned 7 Marshall stacks ! They appeared on every major concert and TV show including Countdown, Hey Hey its Saturday, The Don Lane show etc. and toured with Suzi Quatro, The Sweet, Skyhooks, Sherbet, TMG and Hush. Funnily enough Taste were much admired by Brian May and Roger Deacon of Queen and to get ready for a gig Queen played Taste's "Boys will be Boys" every night on tour before they went on stage..hows that for coincidence and or irony..... Unfortunately (and quite regularly in aussie music) due to management problems and bad marketing Taste never achieved the success they deserved. They were asked to tour America with Queen and signed to Sire Records in USA but broke up before releasing anything.

Released in 1976, The LP "Tickle Your Fancy" is a tight batch of quirky hard rock songs brimming with a unique melodic point of view. Considering the young age of the band, alot of the material here is surprisingly accomplished, both in performance and songwriting. Though the hooks are very subtle, the entire album taken as a whole is a rewarding listening experience through and through.....

Richard Guillianti reviewed the band in December's RAM #48..(remember RAM, great mag and not near as cynical as NME)..anyway its said and I quote,"Taste have been pulling some pretty neat reviews for their LP Tickle Your Fancy and for their new single 'Boys Will Be Boys'. But its not only yer hack cub reporters who've been taking notice of 'em....In Sydney, they performed at the Bondi Lifesaver with none other than Sherbet, the All-Stars, Rockwell T James and Kevin Borich in attendance. Afterwards, (Sherbet's) Tony Mitchell congradulated the group on the 'tightest set he had seen from a band for years'. Adelaide was also good to them, there, they broke the attendance record for one of the dances they played".

All in all...I liked 'em, saw a couple of times at the Lifesaver, hell, even bought the albums

 Band Members

Ken Murdoch ( Lead Vocals / Guitar)

Joey Amenta (Guitar / Vocals)

Michael Tortoni (Bass Guitar)

Virgil Donati (Drums)

COME WALK WITH A ZOMBIE

I've always been a BIG fan of Alice Cooper and people of a similar creative thought process, Coops songs paint mental pictures that are just brilliant...WELL... I went and found myself someone else whose tunes do the same bloody thing to me...Ladies and Gents, dead and Un-dead alike, allow me to introduce Wednesday 13..

.I first saw the film clip "I walk with a Zombie" somewhere, the video had clips of all the old classic horror flicks dispersed through it, and that was me hooked ...got into his stuff and I've got to say if you like tongue in cheek humour with a dash, well, gallons of blood and guts , then this guy is for you....get amongst him, I dare ya.....oh and if your sensitive to swearing, block your ears, cause in some tracks he lets rip...dont say I didnt warn ya...;)

Joseph Poole, better known as Wednesday 13 (born August 12, 1976), is  from Charlotte, North Carolina....I have to wonder how much he stuck out when he was a kid in the dirty south, If he looked anything liked he looks on the Zombie vid, then I imagine he woulda been a bit ostracised, ANYWAY, "I walked with a Zombie" video was a truly outstanding clip and has a truly outstanding guitar hook....I've seen them at Big Day Out and I musta been the oldest dude there, I was getting some weird looks, that much I know.

Poole (Wednesday) embarked on his career in music in 1992 with Maniac Spider Trash. He left the group in 1996 and formed Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 with fellow "Spider Trashers" Abby Normal and Sicko Zero. The band managed to release five full-length albums and six EPs over the span of five years before calling it quits in 2003 as a result of Poole's rising success with his Murderdolls side project. In 2004, Poole formed Wednesday 13, releasing the EP 6 Years, 6 Feet Under the Influence. It was followed in 2005 by the full-lengthTransylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead. In May 2006,Wednesday 13 put out a six-CD/DVD box set called Little Box of Horrors, followed by Fang Bang later that September.

Wednesday currently resides in Los Angeles, among other things he is a fan of campy horror movie parodies and mildly macabre TV shows such as The Munster's and The Addam's Family (the latter being the source of his "Wednesday" moniker), which influence his tongue-in-cheek lyrics. He also created a set of cartoon characters with his ex-wife called the Thirteen Dead Kids, which was released as a clothing line

Murderdolls

2002: Right To Remain Violent

2002: Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls

2010: Women and Children Last

Wednesday 13

 2004  - 6 Years, 6 Feet Under the Influence
2005 - Transylvania 90210: 
Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead
 2006 - Fang Bang 
2008 - Skeletons  
2008 - Bloodwork

2008: Fuck It, We'll Do It Live

2010: From Here To The Hearse

2010: Xanaxtasy - Single

2011: Re-animated - EP

2011: Calling All Corpses

and
           Spook & Destroy Wednesday 13
The Dixie Dead The Dixie Dead

YEEEHAH...Its Rebel Son

I was looking around Facebook a while ago and a friend of mine..STAND UP AND BE NOTICED DONNA SMITH....posted a clip of a band called Rebel Son...I believe it was "You cant turn a whore into a lady"...dug the tune, went for a hunt on the boys and now have a a sizeable collection of their tunes....be warned if you are easily offended, these boys will flip your switch, I shit you not, BUT...if you could give a flying rats about cussing and such, then your gonna fkn love 'em.

           Lee Johnson - Guitar & Vocals,  Dave Schneider - Bass, Tom Warwick - Drums

the boys are a hybrid honkytonk & rockabilly band based out of Raleigh, NC.
The members are guitarist/singer/songwriter Lee Johnson, drummer Tom Warwick & bassist Dave Schneider, Rebel Son delivers an intense set of finely crafted original songs with a strong homage to the Stars'n'Bars, yep , these lads are rebels to their musical core....all I can say is,  get amongst it

Their music, in addition to their display of Southern heritage, is, in reality, defining & expressing the thoughts, feelings & occasional unlawful actions & behaviour of "everyday" people living in an "everyday" world.

Not for the faint-of-heart, Rebel Son will electrify you with a high octane journey as they proclaim...their blue-collar doctrine proudly with little to no regard for your sensitivity.... alienating the easily offended is guaranteed...Basically, they wouldnt have lasted  5 minutes in 70's Queensland

To put it simply, they're a foul-mouthed redneck rock band that just doesn't give a shit.
So, if you think you've heard it all before, you haven't heard anything like this.

REBELLIOUS.

Enjoy...seeya

RECKY