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| From | "bob" <segarini@rogers.com> |
| Subject | Holy Crap!!! |
| Date | Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:56 -0500 |
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Well, I never thought I'd see the day, but someone finally got The Wackers...fortunately, he's now the Senior Editor of Rolling Stone Magazine...
http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thewackers/albums/album/9105989/rid/9514686/
5 Stars
The Wackers were an early-Seventies California band of five obsessed with the Sixties' greatest band of four, the Beatles, and blessed with the goods to be as big as Badfinger: sparkling harmonies, triple-guitar chime and two songwriters, singer-guitarists Robert Segarini and Randy Bishop, gifted with the shine and concision of '65 Lennon-McCartney. But these albums, originally on Elektra, didn't chart. Even now, the Wackers don't get the power-pop love ritually accorded Big Star and the Raspberries. These reissues should fix that. Produced by sunshine-pop icon Gary Usher, 1971's Wackering Heights is a dream sundae of Rubber Soul, Crosby, Stills and Nash and the Beach Boys' Wild Honey. On 1972's Hot Wacks, the Wackers wear their Beatlemania proudly: covering John Lennon's Imagine valentine "Oh My Love" with koto and glassy sigh, stitching the last six tracks into a glam-Abbey Road suite. Shredder mixes charm and snafu but ends with the best faux-David Bowie ballad of '73, "Last Dance." There was also a legendary fourth album canned by Elektra, the live Wack and Roll. Can we have it now? Please?
David Fricke
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