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(Sep 9, 2004)
(Unsigned)
The King Rocker page
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The self-titled King Rocker demo is about as meat-and-potatoes as music can get. It's basic driving rock, fairly energetic, and the band sounds tight, as if they've been playing together for a good long time. They are the type of band that are better live than on a recording. They are that band that always seems to come onstage right after your third beer hits and anything with a beat starts sounding good. The production quality isn't quite up to snuff on the demo - the vocals sound tinny, as if they are coming from a distance. It's hard to tell how much a good production job would help them out, though.
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There are six songs on the CD, four written by Victor Galvan and two
by Tony Red-Horse (aka Tony Slash). I like Red-Horse's songwriting
better, by a good margin. His "Greaser" is the best of the set ("I drink all night,
I run away from the rising sun.") It's not quite a reincarnation of Country Dick Montana,
but it's nice to hear something that at least reminds me of Country Dick
for a change. The guitarist stands out relative to the others from the standpoint of
musicianship, but it's still nothing real earth-shaking.
In summary, King Rocker is a solid band, the kind of corn-fed stock from
which good opening acts come. They seem destined to be a career opening act, or maybe
Friday night regulars at some local honkytonk from where their pickups know the way home.
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