The Ripple Effect: rave review of Stone Axe
Dru Brinkerhoff Stone Axe
Sometimes it doesn’t take much to hook you, to grab you, to reel you in like some thrashing marlin off the coast of Baja. And I’ll tell you, it only took 1 (count it, one) second of the first track of Stone Axe’s debut album to know that I was hooked. If I was a marlin you could just go ahead and drag me into the good Stone Axe fishing boat, gut me, hang me up by my heels and weigh me. Oh heck, stuff me and stick me on the wall of the Stone Axe pub because I ain’t going anywhere.
Stone Axe is the creation of Mos Generator guitarist Tony Reed and The Swinos vocalist Dru Brinkerhoff and should be adorning the shelves of all fans of big time, blues-injected classic rock like Free, Bad Company, and early Moody/Marsden Whitesnake. I saw this album referred to as “stoner rock,” on some random music zine, but I gotta disagree. That’s really just lazy publishing. Not all retro-70′s, big riff rock and roll is “stoner,” just like those bands I mentioned aren’t stoner. No, this is big time, ball bashing, groove-laden, riff mongering blues and roll, directly related to those bands from the past, but streamlined right here into our future.
via The Ripple Effect: Stone Axe – S/T.
