66 Breakout's Blog
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Boston Band Crush reviews "Goin Down Slow"
It's a good thing when a song immediately (and effectively) establishes what it chooses to be its mood. "Goin' Down Slow" sticks its fist out at the very beginning of this song and lets you know that we're in for a ride, from the first attitudinal, gnarly guitar riff to the gang-of-brutes vocals that answer the insistent aforementioned gnarlitude of the repeating guitar riff.
This is music from an earlier age, where they really had just started turning the amps past "7" and into the saturated, crunchy world of guitar-driven rock. We say "driven" in every sense of the word - the guitar in "Goin' Down Slow" is clearly the boss of this song. It shrills and slams and everything in between. While the drums are, of course, the pop!pop!pop! percussive element of the track, the guitar provides the necessary hammer-drop that bands of the 70s were using to impart heaviness in (let's face it, really) the post-Black Sabbath Era.
The funny thing is, 66 Breakout isn't music of the post-Sabbath 1970's. They somehow exist in 2010, yet this sounds brutally authentic. It's the kind of music you might imagine Ron Swanson rocking out to, when not in his smooth-jazz alter ego. This song doesn't care if its hair is messed up or its t-shirt is stained, because caring would lessen the rock, and no one wishes to lessen the rock.
http://www.bostonbandcrush.com/2010/05/cd-on-songs-66-breakout-goin-down-slow.html
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CD review in Spare Change / What's Up Magazine
66 BREAKOUT describe themselves as 70s Detroit teenagers trying to sound like 60s London teenagers trying to sound like 50s Memphis teenagers trying to sound like 40s Clarksdale teenagers. Their debut cd debut combines the best parts of Cream, Iron Butterfly and early Deep Purple. It has a very 70’s arena rock feel, with driving riffs and vocals buried under thick layers of guitar and bass. Elias James, on baritone guitar and Mike Baldino (who also happens to be one of this city’s best hairdressers) on lead guitar saturate the low end of the sound spectrum creating a swampy goodness and a foot stomping good time. ttp://www.myspace.com/66breakoutband
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Great CD review in The Noise
Thanks Joel!
66 BREAKOUT
66 Breakout
6-song CD
No strangers to the Boston scene, 66 Breakout brings together some old school sounds of bands like MC5, James Gang, and Cream and give it a slightly punk makeover. This classic sounding power trio lineup is nothing short of good, classic rock ’n’ roll combined with new takes on some classics by blues icons like John Lee Hooker and Blind Willie Johnson. Elias James’s easygoing, everyman vocal approach and use of a baritone guitar will evoke the inevitable Jack Bruce moment punctuated by Bill Dwyer’s relentless backbeat and Mike Baldino’s relentlessly impressive hair! 66 Breakout gives powerful credibility to the power trio blues punk thang. Make more music soon! (Joel Simches)