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BLUESCREAM
BLUESCREAM
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"This 14 track CD is excellent!"
- LAD, zaZone.com, February 2004
BlueScream is a studio group formed by Roger Kaye (vocals), Tully
McCully (bass), Robin Gallagher (guitar) and Kevin Gibson (drums).
Their self-titled album, was released in December 2003.
Tracks:
Without Your Love
After September
Closest Thing I've Got
Keep It Coming
When I
Hear The Rain
The Countdown
Weak At The Knees
Another Man's Woman
Serving My Time
Dysfunctional
Freedom Ball
The Way You Look Tonight
I Want
It Now
Fast Lane
MP3's:
The
Countdown
Another Man's Woman
Reviews:
I turn up
'Bluescream' from two-dimensional soft to three-dimensional stereo. Not
enough. Up volume until the
music feels palpable. And I wonder,
"So this is what happens when a melodic rockin' McCully Workshop
tunesmith goes hard rock? What led him to this? Was it his
companions?"
Was it Roger Kaye, vocals, who also wrote
'Dysfunctional'? Or Robin Gallagher on guitar and Kevin Gibson on
drums? (Our Spaced Out man, Tully McCully, plays bass in this four man
band, or, if you prefer, a three-man
band with a lead vocalist.)
We've long known Tully has hard rock tendencies, and he comes by it
honestly. After all, 'Buccaneer' is not a
tune Barry Manilow could
cover. And Tully and Friends work out on tough lyrics like "I'll drink
the wine, I eat
the apple from the bloody tree" from 'Closest
Thing I've Got' (a song about lust which I enjoy because, well, I
like lust). They give us raw power in volume and vocals in 'Keep It
Coming'. And as an American, and as a
citizen of the world, don't
get me started talking about the profound 'After September'.
What at
first sounds like a new direction for Tully develops into a recognition
of his songwriting talents
rocking harder. I hear some McCully
Workshop in structure and melodic sense (check the harmony vocals
in
'Serving My Time'), but those are silver touches among the brazen hard
rock, echoes in the evolution of his
style.
'Bluescream' is not
a classic rock retro outing. In Bluescream, I hear the sons of
'Buccaneer' and 'Chinese
Junkman' and a rockin' man's creative
growth, but this is strikingly new. Of course, as multi-talented
as
Tully is (or should that sometimes be, "as multi-tracked as Tully
is...?"), he doesn't make CDs
alone sometimes I think he's a
friend to everyone on The Cape.
Tully sounds like a perfectionist
crafting and honing songs. Typical of most African rock CDs, there are
no
throwaway tunes here it is either good, or is not included.
'Another Man's Woman' may not be my favorite
track, but it does
build to a satisfyingly fierce finish.
This classic rock guitar
sound in a modern venue has plenty of slamming drums, strident and
deliberate
guitars, and assertive vocals. But embedded in the
towering rock guitars striding the land in seven-league
boots are
talents and skills Tully doesn't care to shake, even when working in
back to basics Saturday Night
Rock ("Yeah, gimme another Windhoek,
boet"). Trademark McCully Workshop background harmony vocals
breeze by in the company of MW signature melodies, as in 'Freedom Bell'
and 'The Countdown'.
The CD's penultimate number is a driving song
titled, fittingly, 'I Want it Now', that moves you along to the
big closer, 'Fast Lane' and I'm off to road test this CD. Wall of
sound? More like an eighteen-wheeler of
sound.
So how did a
nice guy like Tully arrive in the hard guitar world of hard rock? By
hard work and experience.
And I can't say he got here by peer
pressure because, as a triple threat, he has no peer. Of course, Roger
Kaye and Robin Gallagher are not anonymous sidemen but craft
masters rocking out lyrically and musically
smart
tunes.
Bluescream is not good boys gone bad, but solidly rocking
good guys. In fact, I'd let my sister go to a
Bluescream show....
Kurt Shoemaker, Blanco, Texas, May 2004
Website: www.rock.co.za/bluescream
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| | Price: | | $10.79 | |
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| | Category: | | ROCK | |
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| | Media: | | CD | |
| | Records in set: | | 1 | |
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| | Label: | | MCCULLY MUSIC | |
| | Release Number: | | BS001 | |
| | Manufactured: | | ZA | SOUTH AFRICA |
| | Release Date: | | 11/30/03 | |
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| | Condition: | | NEW | (not used) |
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| | Availability: | | SPECIAL ORDER (Not in stock) | |
| | Last Updated: | | 9/1/10 | |
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| | Seller Item Ref #: | | BS001 | |
| | GEMM Reference #: | | GML759890968 | |
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