In a Rome already crushed by the coils of an early summer, a handful of heroes crowd the indoor hall of the Monk Club to watch an even more incendiary live performance. From the post-modern follies of the Rising Sun, the trio known as Guitar Wolf down one beer after another while waiting to go on stage, while the Romans Poo Poo Talks offer the public their set based on garage and synth-rock. After 10pm, Guitar, Drum and Bass Wolf enter the scene to drink the last can, crushed with their hands before setting fire to the sonic powders.
“MORE JET” is the first extract from the Japanese band's new album, a rock'n'roll shot at full volume between dazzling guitars and piercing choruses. From the cover of “Long Tall Sally” to the sixties tribalism of “Kan-Nana Fever”, Guitar Wolf seem like alien creatures landed on the planet to make noise to the most classic of “one, two, three, four!”. On “Red Rockabilly” there is the bassist launching himself directly into the crowd to be carried left and right, while the following “Jet Generation” tests your ears with a wall of punk'n'roll sound. The trio obviously doesn't offer anything new on a stylistic level, but they are visibly appreciated for an exaggerated level of adrenaline, like a car launched at full speed towards a ravine. In the most light-hearted and devastating approach of punk old stylethe trio offers songs played at speed in an obviously full setlist, made up of several covers of classics such as “Summertime Blues” and “Kick Out The Jams”.
Some spectators are invited onto the stage to improvise guitar-heroto the general ovation, before closing the set on the rockabilly distortions of “All Through The Night Buttobase!!” and, in the short encore, on the raw and noisy garage-blues of “Fujiyama Attack”. For sure, one of the craziest live shows of this already torrid Capitoline spring.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
