Picture this. An upstart band from a historically non-descript
\nrock n’ roll breeding ground gets turned loose touring a club scene
\nthousands of miles away from home with nothing more than a handful
\nof singles to their name. No album. No label support to write home
\nabout. No promises of success. With gigs lined up in a handful of
\nU.S. cities followed by a short tour of the U.K., the band finds
\nitself being asked to perform live for a John Peel BBC session show
\nand quickly turns the momentum from that performance into billings
\non the upcoming Reading and Leeds Festivals…….<\/p>\n
True story. The year was 2002. The band? Cambridge, New
\nZealand’s very own garage rock golden boys, The Datsuns.<\/p>\n
And only then did the month of August roll around providing the
\nworld with the band’s first full-length album, inconspicuously
\ntitled
\nThe Datsuns<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Seems like a fairy tale story in the era of the major-label
\nhomogenizing of rock n’ roll. Major-label focus group subjugation?
\nHa ha. Let’s not kid ourselves, as that would only spoil the story.
\nThese guys tested themselves the old-fashioned way, by taking their
\nproduct straight to the people, by gigging relentlessly around the
\nglobe until sold-out shows became the norm.<\/p>\n
So have these guys reinvented rock n’ roll with a new sound?
\nHardly. If the fact that The Datsuns are part of the current
\nonslaught of garage-rock bands seems too trendy, never mind —
\nbecause they have become the white-hot buzz of the underground
\nscene with a good old-fashioned grassroots approach that actually
\nseem to defy all trends.<\/p>\n
Some critics would say that these New Zealanders begged,
\nborrowed, and stole their way to amassing the 10-song collection of
\ntracks on their self titled debut. Sure they “borrow” the signature
\nDeep Purple keyboard sound of Jon Lord on the tracks “At Your
\nTouch” and “In Love”. And yes, they blatantly “steal” Kiss drummer
\nPeter Criss’ opening drum beat from “Love Gun” halfway through
\ntheir “What Would I Know” track. The critics may even be right in
\narguing that The Datsuns run guitar solos through their amps in a
\nway that would make MC5 members proud. But the band surely begs
\npardons from their rock n’ roll forefathers with regard to these
\nsins, and vocalist Dolf Datsun at least croons and wails over these
\nriffs like few vocalists before him. In addition, his bandmates
\nprovide the necessary guitar hooks and subtle backing vocals to
\nblend the overall sound into a rather captivating aural
\nexperience.<\/p>\n
So do The Datsuns rely on hype to get through the day? No way.
\nIf “garage rock” being trendy today ever evolves into the next
\n“grunge” movement of the new millennium, efforts like this album
\nwill go a long way towards defining the sound in the history
\nbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":26323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6817],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37551","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-datsuns","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37551","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37551"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37551"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}