{"id":1823,"date":"2010-03-01T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatsouthernbrainfart.wordpress.com\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:54:45","slug":"album-review-kickstart-kickstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Kickstart – Kickstart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kickstart – Kickstart
\nRelease date: June 19, 2007
\nHighlights: Kickstart Theme Song, Harmonica, Stagger Lee, El Diablo<\/p>\n

NYC has turned out some great rock & roll over the years and Kickstart<\/strong><\/a> is no exception.\u00a0 When their 2007 debut made it’s way to my desk it was like finding a jewel in the rough.\u00a0 Amongst a stack lifeless, uninspired music laid this CD and as I pulled it out and put it in my player, I hoped for a ray of hope and upon hearing “Kickstart Theme Song” I was hooked.\u00a0 When bands have “theme songs” it can really be a cheesy thing but this is a great way to introduce you to the band and what kind of world they occupy.\u00a0 I can almost picture an audience of Kickstart fans pumping their beers in the air and chanting “Rock & Roll is never easy” along with the band.<\/p>\n

Kickstart’s sound is something familiar and at the same time some very comfortable.\u00a0 Lead singer\/guitarist Eric Strickler packs all the energy and attitude of Mike Ness and Joey Ramone and delivers it with an energy and attitude that is all his own.\u00a0 While not affraid to wear his influences on his sleeve, Strickler’s songs are modern day old school punk Rock & Roll anthems.\u00a0 Bassist Fletcher plays with reckless abandonment yet manages to hold down the fort playing in a fashion that is similar to Lemmy from Motorhead, serving at times as a rhythm guitar more so than a bass.\u00a0 Drummer Mary Gatlin is the solid foundation that drives the whole thing home as she pushes the songs and really puts them out in the listeners face.<\/p>\n

As a band, Kickstart is an anthem machine.\u00a0 When listening to songs like “Stagger Lee” and “Harmonica”, you can practically smell the stale beer, sweat and whiskey soaked breath of a tiny, dark hole in the wall.\u00a0 Before I knew it, the album was over with and I had to listen to it again just be sure of what it was that hit me.\u00a0 It was like getting hit head on by a fun, melodic freight train.\u00a0 Next time that train comes by, grab on and hold on for one hell of a ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kickstart – Kickstart Release date: June 19, 2007 Highlights: Kickstart Theme Song, Harmonica, Stagger Lee, El Diablo NYC has turned out some great rock & roll over the years and Kickstart is no exception.\u00a0 When their 2007 debut made it’s way to my desk it was like finding a jewel in the rough.\u00a0 Amongst a stack lifeless, uninspired music laid this CD and as I pulled it out and put it in my player, I hoped for a ray of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19887,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/19887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}