With menacing opening guitar throbs on “The Creeper” (not the famous punk song by Boston’s Unnatural Axe, another creeper!) Thee Fightin’ Fish enter the ring with gloves off. If you like early New York Dolls barreling all-out assault which begins with lyrical admonitions while adding smart, tight musical attitudes at the start, middle and finish of each blitzing tune, this well-recorded quartet of selections will fit the bill. Track 4, “You’ll Get Yours” is probably my favorite with liberal use of the “f” word and George Kondylis drumbeats rocking along with Bob Roos’ incessant guitar. Andy Excuse is on vocals, Matt Robinson on bass and on “Lost My Job” and “Don’t Make Me Suffer” they provide a unified front. Great stuff that you can sample on Reverb Nation dot com / Theefightinfish with no g after “fightin.” https://www.reverbnation.com/theefightinfish
The Creeper
Lost My Job
Don’t Make Me Suffer
You’ll Get Yours
* Andy Excuse – Vocals
* Matt Robinson – Bass
* George Kondylis – Drums
* Bob Roos – Guitar
Joe Viglione is the Chief Film Critic at TMRZoo.com. He has written thousands of reviews and biographies for AllMovie.com, Allmusic.com, Gatehouse Media, Al Aronowitz’s The Blacklisted Journal, and a variety of other media outlets. Joe also produces and hosts Visual Radio, a seventeen year old variety show on cable TV which has interviewed Jodie Foster, director/screenwriter David Koepp, Michael Moore, John Cena, comics/actors Margaret Cho, Gilbert Gottfried, Gallagher, musicians Mark Farner and Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad, Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals, political commentator Bill Press and hundreds of other personalities.
