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On Hello Doctor, the full-length debut by Gravy Train!!!!, the band mixes musical styles and sexual orientations with reckless abandon, coming up with a try-sexual, lo-fi rap/dance fusion that makes Peaches sound as polished and demure as Celine Dion. With a vocal style that's part cheerleader, part riot grrrl, and part hip-hop diva, lead Gravy Trainee Chunx takes on all kinds of usually verboten topics, such as the dangers of giving a "Kottonmouth BJ"; how poorly endowed men make her "Hella Nervous"; and her star-crossed love of burgers in "Burger Baby," which could be described as "Papa Don't Preach" crossed with a Happy Meal. Dancer/rapper Hunx adds to the pansexual approach on songs like "You Made Me Gay," a raunchy but good-natured hip-hop battle of the sexes (and sexualities) that rhymes "anthrax" with "skin sax," and "Double Decker Supreme," a raunchy, ridiculous recounting of a menage à trois that also brings up the group's unique burger fetish. Despite the fact that Hello Doctor is about nothing but sex, it sounds surprisingly innocent; Chunx's strident delivery and the fact that most of the songs sound like playground chants set to Casios make the album more subversive and playful than erotic or exploitive. Hello Doctor basically sounds like really drunken, crazy karaoke at a wild party, particularly on "Laffin' All the Way...to the Bank!," "Mouthfulla Caps," and "Gutter Butter," a more hip-hop-based track that suggests that the bandmembers have more than gimmicky sex songs up their collective sleeves. Then again, Gravy Train!!!! works its gimmick with such a giddy sense of humor that it's hard not to at least crack a smile or bust a move or two while listening to Hello Doctor. ~ Heather Phares
Additional personnel includes: Julie St. Louie, Hawnay Troof (vocals); Ikey Owens (keyboards, beats); Nikki Holiday (keyboards); Touchy (beats); Jon Nix (background vocals).
Personnel: Gravy Train (background vocals); Cyrus Comiskey, Hawnay Troof (vocals).
Photographer: Doug Hill.
Gravy Train: Chunx (vocals); Hunx (vocals, Farfisa organ, keyboards); Funx (synthesizer); Drunx (background vocals).
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Recorded live at The Congress Centrum on November 18, 1995 and The Hans-Merkur Auditorium, Hamburg, Germany on February 28, 1998.
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FREE FALL is an 11-track, 1980 solo release by Ten Years After guitarist Alvin Lee that features a guest appearance by The Beatles George Harrison and includes the songs "I Don't Wanna Stop" and "No More Lonely Nights."
Listen to the very first cut on Freefall and you'll understand the basic problem with the Alvin Lee Band: the track is a nice piece of mid-tempo rock, rather catchy, but is Alvin Lee in there anywhere? Repeated listenings reveal that he might be singing background vocals, and that guitar lead sounds like a slick studio player who listened to a few Ten Years After records one afternoon. From the sound of the whole track, the rest of the band had been listening to Foreigner. Not everything on this album is as anonymous as the first track, and some of it sounds pretty good. This band probably should have been called the Lee/Gould band, as former Rare Bird vocalist Steve Gould has at least as much to do with the sound of the band on those first few tracks. About four cuts into Freefall, Lee seems to wake up, and he turns in some really tasty guitar and a nice, energetic vocal on "Stealin'." There are even a few whoops and shrieks thrown in, and that's OK, because the song deserves it. So does "Ridin' Truckin'" and "Sooner Or Later," which has a nice horn flourish and a tasty little organ line by guest Al Kooper. The latter track is, in fact, one of the more successful mergers of Lee's straight-ahead style with a complex arrangement, and shows the potential of the band. The closer, "Dustbin City," might even be worthy of some air guitar for those who are so inclined. Still, there's a problem here. Fans of Lee will be unhappy that he is tamed on so many of these cuts, and fans of mid-tempo AOR ballads will find too many rockers here for their tastes. The album isn't bad, but it isn't unified or satisfying. ~ Richard Foss
Listen to the very first cut on Freefall and you'll understand the basic problem with the Alvin Lee Band: the track is a nice piece of mid-tempo rock, rather catchy, but is Alvin Lee in there anywhere? Repeated listenings reveal that he might be singing background vocals, and that guitar lead sounds like a slick studio player who listened to a few Ten Years After records one afternoon. From the sound of the whole track, the rest of the band had been listening to Foreigner. ...
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