It did not take long to ‘get into’ this band. This punk trio
\nfrom Toledo, Ohio, only gives you 20 minutes to form an opinion
\nabout them and, frankly, if you would decide you don’t like them, I
\ndon’t think the band would really care. This is one of those
\nreleases where the band sounds like they would play for 5 or 50 or
\neven 500 people. Bassist\/vocalist Steve Wells, guitarist\/vocalist
\nTodd Evans and drummer\/vocalist Steve Irby ooze “we’re buddies
\nplaying songs we like to play.”<\/p>\n
This is evident on the lyrically pointed “Big Radio Hit,” where
\nWells sings, “I like 12 guage shotguns and Monty Python and rockin’
\nwith Irby and T. My CD collection is mostly Black Sabbath” which
\nforeshadows the last track on this CD — a punked up cover of “The
\nTrooper” for which the band wrote “We all know The Trooper is an
\nIron Maiden song. . . “.<\/p>\n
Prior to “The Trooper,” you have to pause at the humor in “The
\nTattoo Guru” where Wells sings “A guy walked up and said to me “Hey
\nDude! Check out my new tat!” . . . followed by “my cousin is so
\noriginal\/ his ass says “Exit only” . . . and the song’s conclusion
\n“If I want to see your tattoo, I will ask you.”<\/p>\n
There are some punk bands, like Dirty Rotten Imbecils, that were
\ngone the day they taught musicianship. The Lazy American Workers,
\nthankfully, were not absent that day. Guitarist Evans riffs his way
\nthrough straight-forward riffs and drummer Steve Irby powers the
\nbackbeat with cymbals and quick snare fills, especially on “The
\nTattoo Guru.”<\/p>\n
So when you arrive at “The Trooper,” that is the real test of The tacked-on ending . . . I can’t name the song but I can
\nthe band. By this time, you’ve heard them run through 13 songs that
\nnever cross the 3:00 mark
\nTrooper,” which adheres closesly to the original, but at a faster
\npace. As a base of comparison, I pulled out the (stellar and highly
\nrecommended double-CD)
\nSlave to the Power — The Iron Maiden Tribute<\/i> release on
\nMeteor City<\/a>, to listen to
\nHoly Mother’s cover of this track. It boils down to Lazy American
\nWorkers nailing the parts, having fun, and sounding like they’re at
\na bar jamming.<\/p>\n
\nidentify it’s from a Metallica song and it’s an ending the band
\nplays in concert. It concludes the band’s romp with style. You
\ncan’t go wrong quoting Metallica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6962],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-37830","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-lazy-american-workers","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37830","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37830"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}