CD REVIEW - June 2007
NOTORIOUS BROTHERS - CD - Radio B.O.S.S Presents Marrogold Summerday Show
'The Marigold Summerday Show' continues in the radio show theme that was first aired on The Notorious Brothers' last album 'Tune Into Radio B.O.S.S.'. Here we find DJ Marigold Summerday enthusing about Radio B.O.S.S. whilst presenting her show in typical 60's style complete with all the 'heady' references of the day and suitably dated station 'jingles' - her show actually comprising nine superbly presented tracks from The Notorious Brothers.
This album once again re-visits a time when rock'n'roll was evolving into simply 'rock', when experimental psychedelia had crept into popular music and when R&B was still truly 'rhythm and blues'. It was a time when musicians really believed they could change the world - a time of love, poetry, star-gazing, flowers and drug altered, extended musical vision. Elvis had already paved the way for the future, The Beatles had done their harmonious take on pop music and moved things to a higher level, the electric guitar was 'king' of instruments, the 'summer of love' had come and gone after bringing drug influenced music and political comment to our doors and in its wake came the rock revolution - somewhere, in the midst of all of that is where The Notorious Brothers have aimed 'The Marigold Summerday Show'.
Marigold Summerday's intro's and comments are sympathetic to the time; she intro's tracks by relating her own, inner, 'cosmic' feelings before she allows the music to drift in to carry her and hopefully you the listener away into your own musically mind-altered state. Does all this sound a bit corny? Well, in a way, that's what the guys are aiming for coz that's how it was back then in the late 60's and into the early 70's. The Notorious Brothers pick up on the whole theme of the day complete with crooning vocals and the wang-bar guitar licks that so typify early, experimental guitar solos. For those who can remember, there's a lot of slick, descriptive Danny Kirwan style guitar work here rather than the more rapacious, in-yer-face, showboating riffs of the era. In fact, the whole album has a certain, honey soaked slickness to it - again quite in-keeping with the supposed era.
Once again this is an interesting and pretty risky piece of work from The Notorious Brothers. I love the way the guys aren't scared to follow their hearts and go off in directions that most bands wouldn't dare tread for fear of outraging their fans. And, once again, the guys pull it off pretty well - 'The Marigold Summerday Show' really is a blast from the past, a musical homage to the pioneers of modern rock'n'roll music. It's cool with me and hopefully it'll be cool with you - if you let yourself get into the spirit of 'gig'! .
(Rhythm & Booze rating 9)
(reproduced with the kind permission of Peter Brown AKA Toxicpete to visit his fantastic site at www.toxicpete.co.uk)