Gypsy Pistoleros-Wild, Beautiful,Damned

2007
Evil Boy Records

Gypsy Pistoleros have called themselves "the Renegade Gypsy Flamenco Rock 'n Roll Glam Sleaze Punksters". Aside from being a mouthful, that's also an awful tall billing to live up to. I read this description before hearing the album so I had my doubts about them being able to live up that description. They don't totally fulfill that label, but that doesn't really matter. What matters is that they attack their material with a lot of confidence. Like all younger bands, they have their influences. Yet I have heard too many bands that try so hard to sound like Motley Crue or Ratt or whoever. Gypsy Pistoleros have shades of Guns and Roses, Hanoi Rocks and other bands mixed in. Still they have certainly added their own flavor as well. Their flavor is a highly charged brand of hard rock that plunges ahead and pulls you along with it. The flamenco and punk sound they mention are fairly slight. Still that's okay because what they do use works so I hope they don't try to force something into their sound just to live up to a description. My feeling about glam and hard rock in recent years was that if there was going to be a future then there needed to be bands who had the talent, energy and guts to do something a little different. I think Gypsy Pistoleros have taken the first step towards doing that and I think they have a bright future ahead of them.

Check out the band's site. http://www.gypsypistoleros.co.uk/