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Album Reviews
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Latest treasures from Britain’s premier power-pop importers
(Grip Weeds are reviewed along w/ Cotton Mather, the Shazam and the
Gallygows)
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Jersey’s Grip Weeds evolved from the DNA of a Smithereens side project
(actually we came together way before any Smithereens side projects!-
Kurt). They named themselves after Lennon’s Private Grip
Weed in How I Won the War, sartorially filch from Moby Grape and recall
Big Star’s #1 record/Radio City. Their third album, though also rooted
in sixties USA (Byrds, Beau Brummels, Buffalo Springfield), acknowledges
the Carnaby Street R&B of the Pretty Things and the Who. The album
includes a version of the latter’s “Melancholia”, bizarrely blanching
alongside “Life and Love, Times to Come”, a frightening snapshot of
what might have been had Shepherd’s Bush’s finest ever attended Summer
of Love seminars with the Maharishi...
Rob Hughes ***
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