Surging ever higher, urging their irretrievably damned souls towards a bug-eyed, finger-blistering, feral meltdown, former Thee
Hypnotics/Black Moses soul-flayer Jim Jones's 10-legged beast offers no quarter. From the tarmac-tearing wheel-spin of Princess &
The Frog, through the speaker-splintering sprint of Rock N Roll Psychosis, to the exhaust-fume blues of Cement Mixer, this is
rock's tired old jalopy stripped drag-race lean and thrashed until it chokes.
Streaking past the comparatively limping latter-day
legacies of the MC5, Dolls and Pistols, The JJR positively redefine raw, untamed, born-with-a-tail rock'n'roll.
8/10
Ian Fortnam
Explosive debut from former Hypnotics and Black Moses leader's five-piece rock'n'roll revue.
Recorded live on four track in 48 hours, *The Jim Jones Revue manages to do what four Hypnotics albums and two Black Moses'
ones never quite did; that's capture the amazing Jim Jones in full-on, manic flight. The maelstrom 10-track set, the basis of their
incendiary live show, is an unholy amalgam of influences; Jerry Lee, Hasil Adkins, The Sonics, MC5, Elvis, with Jones screaming and
a-hollering like Gerry Rosalie one minute and Lux Interior the next over songs straight out of the Sun, Chess and Specialty stables.
Elliott Mortimer's pounding of ivory and guitarist Rupert Orton's rama lama lam-ing adds to the psychotic mayhem while bassist
Gavin Jay and drummer Nick Jones rocket along at the back. If Little Richard had written this, he'd still be boasting about it today.
4/5
Lois Wilson
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