By Monk
I dunno ’bout you, but guitar slingin’ and whiskey drinkin’ kinda seem to go hand in fist, so it sorta makes sense to welcome these guitar-slingin’ whiskey-sippin’ rawk ‘n’f’n’ roll reprobates into the hallowed pages of the one website that celebrates guitar-slingin’ whiskey-sippin’ rawk ‘n’f’n’ roll reprobating more than any other, doesn’t it?
TG&WC started out as a tribute band back in 2016, and those roots are very clear, as right from the off they display glitter rock influences such as Skid Row, Dokken and Ratt loudly and proudly on their studded-leather sleeves. Vocalist Mark Prudeaux draws on a rich well that evoke the spirits of Bach and Pearcy as much as it does Keel, Neil and even Monroe and DuBrow, while guitarist Jeffrey Donovan is very much imbued in the axeslinging school of the same era.
Not that any of this is a bad thing, as the result is a classy, yet importantly classless, re-embodiment and re-incarnation of that classic late Eighties/early Nineties hair metal sound, albeit reproduced a lot more cleanly than the genre’s original proponents could have afforded, In the process, however, they have lost none of the original passion and gutter-rock spirit that their iconoclastic forebearers extrapolated.
I can’t play guitar, but I sure can drink whiskey, so if that’s enough to sign me up for membership, then hand me a pen and a glass \m/
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