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The Good - The Bad - The Ugly
Acetate Records, 2002
When PG handed me this CD, Sonny Vincent's name rang a bell, but I couldn't tell you a thing. I didn't realize he's already impressed me, when I saw him playing in Half Japanese and Mo Tucker's band. I sure as hell know who he is now. He's the freakin' Kevin Bacon of punk rock.
He founded the Testors, one of the mid-seventies CBGB's bands. He's also started bands with members of the Dead Boys, the Replacements, the Damned andthe Stooges. Members of the last two bands are the rhythm section here.
This record is his A Few Good Men; where the paths of all the stars cross. Punk guitar legends from the MC5 to the Bell Rays show up on this record. None of this would matter if the songs weren't hot. The songs are hot. This New York punk- a bit more Stonesy than later punk, but fast and mean mean mean. Lately, this era in rock and roll has really moved me. They thought they were going to be the next big thing, and didn't see what wasn't pop about what they were doing. By the eighties, it was clear that punk wasn't going to be a road into anything.
This is so New York, some of it was recorded in Vermont. This is so New York, there is a song about getting in trouble in Martha's Vineyard.
It's neat seeing someone get it together after so many years just outside of success. Stiv Bators and Johnny Thunders are dead, and Richard Hell is all grown up. Let's give Sonny his day in the sun.
posted Tuesday, April 15, 2003
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