New Hampshire natives Weed, Inc is a veteran band, made up of a
\ntrio of longtime rockers from the state who came together to form
\nthe band in 1998. They have since then earned themselves as a
\nreputation as one of the best indie bands in New England, tearing
\nup charts on mp3.com and playing packed live shows – a lot of live
\nshows.<\/p>\n
\nTrampled, Beaten And Obeyed<\/i> is their first CD, a self-
\nproduced effort. Weed Inc. are straight ahead, guitar-and-bass
\nrockers; there’s nothing fancy about their sound, no flights of
\ncomplex arrangements or odd instruments. And you know what? They’re
\npretty good at what they do.<\/p>\n
Musically, the talent is there. The highlight is bass player Tim
\nMcCoy; he lays down a beat like a thrumming heart, steady, even,
\nthe kind of sound you can build an entire CD around. Drummer Norm
\nFuller, oddly enough, tends to play his drums not as a beat to
\nbuild on but as an accent, a lot of spiky cymbals and snare hits.
\nGuitarist Leo Ganley is competent; he’s not Eddie Van Halen, at
\nleast not on this CD, but he doesn’t have to be, and he gets in
\nsome churning licks on “Always Back To Lorraine”, which is one of
\nthe best songs on the disc.<\/p>\n
The production (in the background, we hear the “Daily Vault”
\nfaithful groaning in agony as I talk about production again) is
\nworkmanlike but clean, the band’s sound crunchy without being
\nmurky. Highlights of
\nTrampled<\/i> include “You Are My Windows”, with a bright, Muscle
\nShoals-style horn section; the stomping opener, “Queen Bee”; the
\ndriving bass of “Open Up”; “Paint A Picture”‘s martial drum line;
\nand the almost-parody angst of “&^@$ Your Minivan” (as a side
\nnote, this sounds both illegal and a likely way to get a very
\npainful burn).<\/p>\n
To make a referential quote, “It’s only rock and roll, but I
\nlike it.” There’s a good reason Weed Inc. has made such a stir up
\nNew Hampshire way; they’re
\ngood<\/i> at what they do. Track this one down, or get it off
\ntheir web page. It’s worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":25652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6469],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-36858","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-weed-inc","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36858"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36858"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}