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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
...superduper group just miss..., 10 Nov 2007
Now some people bandy the phrase supergroup around when a bunch of no-marks you've vaguely heard of get together to try and resurrect a barely consious career, so in order to suitably address Devil's Slingshot, it becomes necessary to utilise the phrase superdupergroup. Because ladeez and gennulmen, I bring you on guitar, Mr Tony MacAlpine, on bass Mr Billy Sheehan and on drums, Mr Virgil Donati! Blimey.
As anyone with even a passing interest will know, Tony MacAlpine has had a two decades long solo career, as well as working with the likes of Planet X and Steve Vai. Amongst other things, Billy Sheehan began with Talas, joined up with Diamond David Lee Roth when Roth still had his own teeth and formed multiplatinim poodles, Mr. Big. Virgil Donati is a proper drummer, the one that musos head for when they need more than a bass pedal and a hi-hat. Hence his work with Steve Vai, Derek Sherinian, Mick Jagger and, yes, Joss Stone! And now they've got together to fire out some instrumental pyrotechnics.
They actually all got together playing gigs with Steve Vai and all got on well enough musically to stick together as a trio for this album and tour. And it works very well, if the thought of aggressive but melodic fusion is something that gets you a wee bit hot under the collar. Obviously if you're looking for versue - chorus - verse, you're in the wrong place, but there's some good tunes and heavy riffing rattling around here with the ponderous 'Lay Off', a mountainous highlight and the seventies rock vibe of 'Ocean' a treat, especially for bass fans. But it's 'Flamed' that got my rawk juices stirring, so if you want to hear a sample, that's the one to head for.
It's not as techy as you might think, as the trio generally keep things trimmed to around the four minute mark, which will actually disappoint all the prog freaks out there, who will be drooling in a rather unsavoury manner at the thought of this album. It's not as goos as the best that the three have come up with separately, but it has enough to keep you going the whole way through.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome musicianship, shame about the production, 20 April 2009
You would expect the musicianship to be of the utmost highest order considering the people involved. You would be slighty disapointed in the slightly flat production values though. Most of the drums sound dull and lifeless and the guitars often sound distant. Does not stop the album being a worthy purchase, though, especially if you are a fan of any one of these guys.
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