Show Cast Makes Some Groovy Grooves By Philip Dean Doan Beck Bock AE Editor The drought of competent musical musical musical musi musi- cal talent here in the AE section has somewhat come to an end This much needed relief comes compliments compliments compliments ments of Records with a tide of new Today's victims Ahem Featured Artists is the group known as Cast in their new album release These guys have potential so they actually have nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing to fear from this review as is not often the case It has been said that originality is dead and that that which appears to tobe tobe tobe be new or trendy is just a hashing re-hashing of a forgotten era Even the Grunge rock of today is just rock under a anew anew anew new alias and this group is no tion Listening to this CD was truly a trip through time to a place only conjured up in the minds of younger generations through television images and memories told by aging Baby Truly reminiscent of and early rock it invokes scenes of Woodstock tie-dye tie hippies hippies hippies hip hip- pies and political chaos The band consists of John Power doing guitar and vocals Peter Wilkinson on bass Liam Tyson playing playing playing play play- ing guitar and Keith Oneil O'neil on drums Together they create a sound that is is truly truly psychedelic rock This CD is a necessity for all of you new as well as time-honored time listeners listeners listeners lis lis- of this period in rock history then and now Those tracks receiving honorable mention include Tell it Like it is with witha a highly distorted and melodically pleasing guitar pick Though only remotely similar it does have a feel not unlike songs such as Paint it Black Black- very popular in hi its it's own time Also worth mentioning is Walkaway Walkaway- a slower sweeter ballad- ballad style tune for you more touchy feely types The gold and most ironically ironically ironically iron iron- fitting for today's theme is History It also has a continually recurring guitar riff that is nothing short of funky and out far Actually this is the most progressive track on the CD and could appeal to just about any any- one So is it grunge Clearwater Revival revived Or Orsome Orsome Orsome some other musically-fused musically mutation so common in today's music Im I'm not predicting great or instant fame for this group but this CD is definitely worth checking out f v k v ft r t 1 eV a t 3 I 4 yr Liam Tyson Peter Wilkinson John Power and Keith ONeil O'Neil of the group Cast |