3:05 AM (Ophelias) - I don't hear Jimmy Page

Produktbeschreibung

Artist/Band: 3:05 AM (Ophelias)
Titel: I don't hear Jimmy Page
Zustand: 1
Format: CD
Label: Yeaah!
Herkunft: USA

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1. Love Kills
2. 3:05 AM
3. Looking for the Action
4. Jan's Getting Married
5. Wise Man and the Fool
6. Colorblind #9
7. I don't hear Jimmy Page
8. Morning
9. Don't need Love
10. Cemetery
11. Tomorrow
12. Color Blind
13. You've Got A Lot to Learn
14. Queen Street

BONUSTRACKS:
15. Lookinf for the Action #2 (acoustic)
16. The Immigrant Song (LED ZEPPELIN Coverversion)

The danger of preconceptions. You see the name Noel Redding attached and you automatically think tedious 60s throwback blues rock best not allowed outside of Hendrix conventions. Redding spotted them and used them as warm up for his US tours, so more of the same then right? Er, no. Formed in 1996 and fronted by singer/guitarist Keith Dion, they do have a 60s air, but it's the breeze of West Coast psychedelic pop and Byrdsian folk rock. New Zealand born Dion's a veteran of several Kiwi outfits as well as former Rough Trade guitar band The Ophelias, while co-guitarist/mandolin player Patrick Fahey has served time with Pete Seeger, Jackson Browne and Dave Grisman. Put them together and you get a jangling combination of folk rock and power pop that's both musically and lyrically adept. The Celtic touches of Wise Man and the Fool or Cemetary call to mind The Hooters, Colorblind mixes together The Byrds, Doors and The Who in a psychedelic blender, the latter also evident on the power pop of the bitter Jan's Getting Married and (along with shades of George Harrison) their eponymous song of a housewife falling part while they're going Velvet Underground with Queen Street and Don't Need Love. And as if that wasn't enough Looking For The Action heads off into calypso and the opening Love Kills nods to the folkier aspects of Led Zep. The CD even throws in a sonic thrumming take on the intro to The Immigrant Song as a bonus track. The title? Something to do with working as a session guitarist for pretentious producers apparently. No, you won't hear Jimmy Page but listen with an open ear and you'll find strong rootsy 60s guitar pop from a band whose, ahem, time, could be fast dawning.

(netrhythms Review)