Gabe Stiff...vocals, guitar, piano, organ....
Roy Page....guitar, theramin, blues harp, vocals....
Thomas Choi..bass, vocals....
Black Shadow..drums, vocals....
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Influences
Rolling Stones..MC5..Ike & Tina Turner..Roky Erikson..Pam Grier..Fred Williamson..
Sounds Like
Black Flag playing Black Sabbath songs...lots of slop and lots of riffs
Deep beneath the glitter and neon of Sin City lies a ferocious four-headed beast waiting to rip you apart with sonic fury, ravage your eardrums with relentless distortion and leave you begging for more. These bastard sons of rock & roll have been punishing all who defy them since 2002 and on-stage they explode with raw power; never relenting until the last table has been flipped over and everyone is on the floor drenched in sweat. They have fine-tuned their down-and-dirty sound and cultivated super hooks and even more super riffs crafting a sound that is new and fresh but still familiar like an old friend.
The Black Jetts are all about DA ROCK !! And they're also all about being LOUD !! I stood by the door and watched in amazement as this massive amount of wood and electronics was dragged into the Bunkhouse and assembled into position on stage. Roy plays through a full stack of Orange amps. Gabe plays through a full stack of Marshall amps. And Tom plays through a black bass cabinet as big as a small building, with 8 12" speakers in it. Nice. :-) Chad is still playing Roy's mis-matched drum set, and I'm wondering if he will even be heard over all that assemblage of speakers and amp heads to either side of him. Doesn't take them that long to get their heads on straight and before you know it, things are rocking. I had almost forgotten at how much the Black Jetts just play and live and breathe Rock 'N' Roll, and to watch them go about things was pretty sweet. I was in the mood for it, and they were dishing it out in big, heaping handfulls of sticky 70's goodness. Heavy New York Dolls. Heavy Alice Cooper. Worshipping at the altar of the MC5. And I got no problem with any of that... heh heh heh Roy is weeble-wobbling to and fro while laying down these fat, greasy, slinky rock god riffs, and his set-up is waaay louder than Gabe's, so he's the one you're hearing playing the tunes. Tom is right behind him, playing so fucking loud it's shaking everything in a 1oo yard radius, and he plays his bass like it's a guitar, running all over the fret board and playing bass solos mid-song every now and then. And he does it all while looking like he's somewhere else, if that makes any sense. Chad is just bashing the ever loving shit out of his drum set, usually with a psychotic grin on his face, trying his best to be heard, but the real soul of this band is Gabe. The guy just has an aura of Rock 'N' Roll permeating all about him. Looks, attitude, stage presence, vocal delivery. The guys got it all, and to watch him strutter and jump around and thrash about while playing his music is infectious. He makes you wanna rock out even more than you already are. It's hard not to. The Black Jetts play some real cool Rock 'N' Roll tuneage, and it's easy to see why the Review-Journal voted them Las Vegas' Best Rock 'N' Roll Band. It's in everything they do. Their little choreographed moves... the posturing... hell, even the stuff their singing about is 100% rock approved. No Poseurs here. Too legit to quit. They got the girls up front shaking their asses, and the guys in the audience wishing that they played that good. When Roy takes off his guitar and busts out the Theramin, you know it's the last song, and after an 8 minute full on rock-out-with-your-cock-out session, the band called it quits, confident in the fact that they just blew the roof off of the Bunkhouse. Quite a spectacle to see. It's good for your Soul. Cheers to the Black Jetts, who are the living proof that nothing can kill the Rock. Nothing.
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America’s 50* Best New Bands The Boston Phoenix presents its annual state-by-state search for the coolest music in the United States of Awesome
BOSTON, MASS — For the second year in a row, to celebrate July 4th, the Boston Phoenix (thePhoenix.com) has named the best new band in each of the 50 states.
Bands on this year’s list range from the blisteringly fast punk of Arizona’s Shark Pants to the precision pop of Illinois’s Maps and Atlases, from the bizarre drunkcore of Alaska’s Stubby’s Crack Co. to the achingly gorgeous Americana of Rhode Island’s Low Anthem.
“If we’ve learned anything from this project, it’s that there are scores of pulsing, vibrant scenes outside of New York, Los Angeles, and Chapel Hill,” says Phoenix editor Lance Gould. “It’s proof positive that creative, arresting, and just plain weird music is thriving from Bangor to Boise.”
“We New England types tend to live in fear of the rest of the country,” says Michael Brodeur, Phoenix music editor. “This list provides comforting proof that there are good bands just about everywhere. Although — full disclosure — we didn’t have the budget to check out Guam.”
To be clear, by “new,” we really mean “emerging” (just try fitting that clumsy word into a headline). Thus, “new” band actually means a band that, whether they just formed or have been slogging in the clubs for a few years, is poised to breakout for indie success.
W drew from as many genres as possible — we’ve got metal, rap, electronic, indie-pop, art-punk, Americana and whatever the hell New York’s Capillary Action counts as. We’ve also got a couple of solo artists masquerading as bands (IN, VT) and just plain soloists (FL, MD, TN, SC, MS). (* We even threw in a 51st band for Washington, DC.)
RIGHT ON!!!! ThankS for the Friendship! HOPE YOU ENJOY "DOGGY STYLE"!! The Dogs from Lansing/Detroit Rock City celebrate their 40th anniversary w/t 2 Disks, 25 tribute bands, 3 unreleased historic tracks from The Dogs from 1971 & 1976, 28 page booklet, liner notes by John Sinclair (MC5) and cover artwork by Rockin' Jellybean!!
We're playing our first show in a couple years!
Friday May 15 at 10pm
Come down and party with us:
BOOMERS BAR
3200 Sirius ave
Las Vegas
The whole gang will be there!
BOOMERS BAR wants to say thank you to all of the bands that participated in the Locals Benefit to buy a PA system.
We're happy to announce that the first version of the PA is installed and ready for shows, and we'd like to invite everybody down for a free drink and a Jam sesh!
Professional Backline Rentals is providing a fully backlined stage for the night... So bring down your bandmates, guitars and sticks, have a free PBR and PARTY with us!
for more details message, call (702-787-4268, or email me pigasus4@gmail.com Thanks!!
Love, Roxie
PS. Please forward this message on... this is a free event and we want anybody involved in the benefit to feel welcome.
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