Label: Second Battle (Germany), SB 036
Style: Hard Rock, Blues Rock
Country: Germany (21 August 1952 - 20 December 2016)
Time: 36:26
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 258 Mb
Five tracks comprise the album, and the Tiger bunch are nothing less than on the prowl for the bulk of it. Kicking off with “Tiger Rock” as roaring sound FX slyly open up the proceedings when Schmidt’s abrasive, near-antiseptic riffing intro cuts in to signal the band to break into a full-tilt, hardened boogie approximating the same pace and strength of Neil Young’s “Sedan Delivery” (Which is to say it’s not the usual ‘feel good at a mid pace tempo while we amp up slow and dumb down the blues like Humble fucking Pie and make you feel alllllll right!-in-the-process’ boogie nonsense but a far more streamlined and simple approach minus any fussy blues allegiance…Although THAT comes into play full force when the last track of the album derails an otherwise superb album with an obligatory and far too long blues exposition.) Tiger B. Smith just pummel it out so moronically forceful and insistently, it’s beyond mere standard blues-boogie — its savageness is far more bloodying a stomp-fest: mirrored by Schmidt’s repeated breakdown chorus of “Won’t do it!/ Won’t do it! / Won’t do it! / I will not do it! / I will not do it! / Just leave me alone!” and the abundance of double-time drum rolls which to the overall sense of abandon both fretfully defiant and willfully absurd at the same time.
The plodding, near-“Iron Man” sensibility of the rhythm guitar of “These Days” juxtaposes itself against a stoic drum pattern clipped with Dierks’ industrial effects which translates them into a sound at once deceptively hollow though thundering with hugeness and overall bass throttling from Klaus Meinhardt. Several times it collects into small, pounded-out mini-thrashes on the beat only to explode back into the even slower paced trudge ‘theme.’ A middle section picks up speed only to fall back with the added appearance of organ tones. Again and again the brief thrash sessions return as much to annoy as to excite and serve to break up the track’s otherwise super-drag quality as well as adding a sense of perfectly-timed stupidity.
(full version: headheritage.co.uk/unsung/the-book-of-seth/tiger-b-smith-tiger-rock)
01. Tiger Rock (05:16)
02. These Days (05:57)
03. Everything I Need (06:26)
04. To Hell (09:49)
05. Tiger Blues (08:56)
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