Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Blasters have a devoted fan base and have received largely positive critical reviews, but have earned only limited mainstream success. Critic Mark Deming wrote of them, "the Blasters displayed a wide-ranging musical style [and] were a supremely tight and tactful band with enough fire, smarts, and passion for two or three groups." [21]
In 1997, Testament returned with Demonic, which featured a lineup of vocalist Chuck Billy and guitarist Eric Peterson, alongside original guitarist Derrick Ramirez on bass and Gene Hoglan on drums. [2] [11] For the album's touring cycle, the band was rejoined by guitarist Glen Alvelais and drummer Jon Dette. [12]
Alvin grew up in Downey, California in a music-loving family where he and his younger brother Dave Alvin were exposed to blues, rockabilly, and country.Inspired and influenced by the music they grew up with, Phil and Dave formed the rock and roll band The Blasters in the late 1970s with fellow Downey residents Bill Bateman and John Bazz. [2]
Members of the rock band The Blasters. Pages in category "The Blasters members" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
He is a former and founding member of the roots rock band the Blasters. Alvin has recorded and performed as a solo artist since the late 1980s and has been involved in various side projects and collaborations. He has had brief stints as a member of the bands X and the Knitters. He often refers to himself as "Blackjack Dave," in reference to his ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Blasters was critically well received. Reviewing the album in 1982 for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau said that Phil Alvin has "easily the most expressive vocal style in all of nouveau rockabilly", while "Dave Alvin's originals introduce a major songwriter, one with John Fogerty's bead on the wound-tight good times of America's tough white underbelly, though his focus is shallower ...
(1997), Los Angeles music journalist Chris Morris described the Blasters c. 1980 and the "brute energy" that the band generated, including "the indefatigable drummer Bill 'Buster' Bateman." [5] Dave Alvin echoed Morris in another history of the L.A. punk scene, Under the Big Black Sun. He noted how "Bill Bateman pounding his drums as if he were ...