Black Gasoline is...
Bobby Comfort - Vocals
Scotty Joseph Mackey - Bass
Kendall Newby - Drums
Paul Deceglie - Guitar
Lovell Hickman - Guitar, Keys
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‘Black Gasoline demonstrates exactly why it has long been hailed as one of the most promising bands in Kansas.” – Eat, Sleep, Drink Music.com //
“Black Gasoline is a band that has drunk deeply from the well of ‘70s riff metal.” – musictap.net //
"Black Gasoline adds their stamp by throwing in an ample amount of good time boogie and some radio-friendly hooks.” –Stonerrock.com //
“The black majik of Black Gasoline will have you believing that Wichita is a lot cooler than it actually is.” – Lawrence.com //
"Wichita's Black Gasoline, which favors sludge and engine rattle over pomp and sass." –Pitch.com //
“A bonanza of guitar oriented big ass sound.” – sugarbuzzmagazine //
“Fuzz box distortion and detuned guitars layered with razorblade cut vocals and a very '70's vibe” –Sea Of Tranquility //
Blooming with psychedelic sexiness and awe inspiring sound-scapes Black Gasoline’s new material finds them trading in their leather jacket swagger in favor astronauts suits and druid robes.
Whether it be tales of Gunfighters, shadow-creeping vampires or cosmic beings bestowing super human powers on the unsuspecting, Black Gasoline’s new direction pushes the boundaries of what is expected from a turn of the century rock band.
The band has taken an obvious musical shift away from the adrenaline charged whiskey drenched bar rock that inhabited their debut album “She Gave Us Magic”
The transition comes in part, from the addition of Keyboardist Larry Donaldson to the writing process. As well as the fact that the band decided to take a D.I.Y. approach and record the album in their own studio with the assistance of their friend and sonic-guru
Jon Goodwin.
“Black Gas” reached beyond their standard classic rock influences and dove into lesser-charted territories in search of new sounds and lyrical ideas, to compliment the new vastness of their new material.
Along with Guitarist, Paul DeCeglie, the pair took up the reigns and drove the quintet into a spacier direction as evident on tracks such as “She Wrapped My Heart Around the Sun.”
That being said, one listen to either “I’ll Be Ready” or “Queen Bee” proves that this quintet is still quite capable of delivering the mandatory amount of ass shaking rock & roll.
Vocalist Bryan Seely still delivers his trade mark rasp even on the lullaby like “Red Moon” and the air tight rhythm section of Kendall Newby and Scott Mackey keep the “warp engines on line” especially on the groove drenched “The Wizard & The Devils Daughter.”
The band plans on trying out some of these new songs during this year’s installment of the Austin Texas SXSW music conference. As well as several regional shows during the spring and summer of 2009.
so you guys will be in KC on the 31st... you should come up a day early and attend the freak show that my house party will be on the 30th. I promise a drunken good time!!
i still wanna get you bastards out to STL -- we'll have to work to figure out a good weekend, and then me and jimmy V. will try to concoct the perfect lineup
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