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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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