Axminster - Axminster | ||
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Album Cover: ![[Image]](../../Images/axminster.jpg)
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Label: GB Music Producer: Hirsh Gardener Year: 2000 Total Playing Time: 46:39 m:s Review date: 17/03/2000 |
| Web site: www.gbmusic.com
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| Rating: 62% | ||
| Verdict: high octane 80s blues-based headbangin' | ||
| Axminster started life back in 1983 and recorded various singles from then until the 90s. Like many other acts, the grunge thing of the early 90s killed the band off. Then in 1999 the band got back together again. This CD is a summary of their career and features songs from the start of their career until the present day.
Axminster are a bluesy rock 'n' roll band that don't really care about which musical genre they fit into. I'm reminded to bands like UFO and Tesla. They're a good old fashioned ballsy hard rock band. Drums thumping and guitars blazing herald "All Tied Up". This is high octane rock and roll AC DC style. "Only A Stranger" is less frantic and more melodic, with a Van Halen meets Motley Crue feel. "Love's For Sucker" is a sassy blues tune with a hint of Aerosmith meets Firehouse to it. From sassy blues to bluesy rock 'n' roll boogie for "Life's A Knockout". "Hold Me Closer" is big slow number featuring plenty of fretwork. For "Shame" it is back to AC DC mode. Similarly "Eye On You". "Crack N A Shotgun" at first sounds like more of the same, but gets rescued by a surprisingly melodic pre-chorus. AC DC clones Krokus spring to mind during "Teenage Livin'". "Dirty Magazine" might not be the most inspired theme for a rock song, but it's a nice example of blues hard rock boogie. On "She's Got Money" the band reinforce their party rock tag. As you might have expected Axminster keep the pedal to the metal for closer "Rock & Roll Infection", but remember to thrown in some melody for the chorus. | ||
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