TAB the band-Long Weekend

Professor Vegas
2008

This power trio have only been around since early 2007, but you wouldn’t know it by the manner in which they attack their songs. It took all of about oh a minute into the swirling, screaming opener “Backseat Lover” for me to realize that this band was going to be bringing some serious garage rock my way. Indeed they keep it coming with an attack that has some basis in classic Rolling Stones, the WHO and early Aerosmith. Yet they take those influences and twist them in with a massive spinning array of charged up blues, bouncing funk, grinding guitars and deep pounding beats. They don’t really give you time to catch your breath as the tracks are short and too the point because they don’t waste time on unnecessary build-up. The style is very much based on late 1960’s-early 1970’s music primarily garage rock and classic rock. However TAB the band inject that particular sound with a healthy dose of adrenaline as they all the soul and fire that was good about this type of music and they thrust it out there with pure grit and surging grooves. I am fond of the production too particularly on the drums because they catch all the little echoes and nuances in a sound that’s almost like being in the same room hearing them be played. My only real gripe is that the whole album seemed to go by too fast and it left me wanting more.

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