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The Blasters tried recording 4-11-44 twice, as a live album, but issues with record labels prevented a release. [6] They were without Dave Alvin; the lineup that recorded 4-11-44 had been playing together for a decade. [7] Phil Alvin and bass player John Bazz were the only founding members to participate in the recording sessions. [8] "
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 ...
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."
The Blasters (1981) Over There (Live at The Venue, London) (1982) 6-song EP; Non Fiction (1983) Hard Line (1985) The Blasters Collection (1990) Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (2002) Trouble Bound (2002) Going Home: The Blasters Live (2004) Live 1986 (2011) Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (2023)
American Music is the debut album by American rock band The Blasters, released in 1980. [1] The song "Marie Marie" became a breakthrough hit for Shakin' Stevens in 1980 (from This Ole House). Matchbox recorded the song for their 1980 album Midnite Dynamos. In 1997, the album was released on CD by Hightone Records. [2]
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Bill Bateman is an American drummer best known for his long service in the Blasters.He has also played for the Flesh Eaters, the Red Devils, and the Cramps.. In writing of the talent that the Blasters contained, Henry Rollins singled out Bateman as "one of the best drummers there is."
The action was shot live and the video was then spliced with video clips, photos and graphics of everything from an exploding atomic bomb to a woman wringing a chicken's neck. The show started with a montage of clips from punk and new wave acts while the title appeared and the theme song, an abrupt mixture of Fear's "Camarillo" and The Blasters ...