I can’t really say what I was expecting when I first put on the 'Live At Roadburn’ album from San Diego’s own Earthless. I hadn’t even begun to read the blurb that came with the Cd and so when Isaiah Mitchell’s acid guitar began to wail and the thrumm of Miles Eginton’s bass started to batter my abdomen and the staccato, possibly insane, and definitely heavy as all fuck of Mario Rubalcaba’s drumming started to thrash my head around I was a little disconcerted. And after a few minutes of completely gobsmacked staring at the screen I checked the media listing and found that the 1st track was all of the first CD at around 47 minutes; well I was properly flashed back to nights of my extreme yoof when I would sit, with many others of my clan, wide-eyed in awe as Hendrix or Captain Beyond or Amon Duull or Hawkwind would whip up a mighty, mighty psychedelic blues storm and the air itself would explode in balls of fire and ,. well, in those days the acid was good and the music fed the mood and the mood fed back into the music.
But this was recorded in Holland in 2008, at a heavy rock festival and by a band who had expected to be playing to a packed tent of maybe 200 souls but instead found themselves playing on the main stage to the headliners audience and decided to repay their hosts by laying down an hour and a half of supremely confident, explosive, jam laden and coherent ROCK.
This double CD set is their entire set from that night in Tilburg and thankfully it was recorded. This is a supreme example of a band taking their opportunity and simply laying waste to all around them. Not by thrash riffing but by classic psychedelic guitar-laden assault. Eginton & Rubalcaba lay down a bedrock that has the heart racing and the back of the neck striving to throw the head into the fourth row and then that guitar, at once riffing and then screaming as the strings are ripped asunder. No vocals, just guitar and bass and drums – the holy trinity just as it was meant to be.
http://www.myspace.com/earthless
But this was recorded in Holland in 2008, at a heavy rock festival and by a band who had expected to be playing to a packed tent of maybe 200 souls but instead found themselves playing on the main stage to the headliners audience and decided to repay their hosts by laying down an hour and a half of supremely confident, explosive, jam laden and coherent ROCK.
This double CD set is their entire set from that night in Tilburg and thankfully it was recorded. This is a supreme example of a band taking their opportunity and simply laying waste to all around them. Not by thrash riffing but by classic psychedelic guitar-laden assault. Eginton & Rubalcaba lay down a bedrock that has the heart racing and the back of the neck striving to throw the head into the fourth row and then that guitar, at once riffing and then screaming as the strings are ripped asunder. No vocals, just guitar and bass and drums – the holy trinity just as it was meant to be.
http://www.myspace.com/earthless
