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Please excuse the self promotion - I just thought I'd share our recent
review in Pipeline magazine with you - (see below - I assume that not all of
you read it anyway).
Also thank you to Phil Dirt for his five star review of our "Beyond the Sea"
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The Thurston Lava Tube
The Pink Elephant with Nipples for Tusks CD
Cordelia Records CD-039, UK 2005, 38 minutes
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The Anchor Pigs / Argentinasaurus / It Is The Music Of The Thuston Lava Tube
But It Is Performed Here By Pidgeons / Fritter Capsule / Peruvogator / I
Didn't Bite The Dinosaurs / Forgot To Put the Chain On Baxter / It Must Have
Been the Mousse / Absurdo / Shit Weasel / Oh, What Happened To The Poor
Bear? / Surf Rider / Wonderful Land / Mrs. Robinson
Alan Jenkins (guitar), Blodwyn P. Teabag (organ), Marshall Cavendish (bass)
and Mat Bartram (drums) are The Thurston Lava Tube, whose first two wacky
outings were featured in Pipelines 58 and 62. The Pink Elephant contains
much more of musical merit and sounds far stronger with some juicy effects
on assured guitar playing and the bass more in evidence. The Tube can't help
but include some way out pieces, but skip through them and there are some
goodies in store.
A twangy reverb intro opens The Anchor Pigs which has a touch of the
spaghetti westerns about its atmospheric main theme. Pounding drums and
shimmering guitar chords provide further decoration to make it a real
winner. Forgot To Put the Chain On Baxter features some biting fuzz guitar
and stabbing organ while the brief Absurdo contrasts passages of rumbling
guitar and drums with squeaky '60s organ. The menacing Shit Weasel has
aggressive guitar chords and organ working together to build a mood which is
enhanced by a buzzing organ solo with theremin and brass in support before
it builds to a climax with the return of the big guitar chords and a real
live tenor sax. Very Tasty.
Some of their other original pieces do grate on me a bit and I find
Argentinasaurus's plinky melody very irritating, but the album closes with
three covers. Surf Rider gets a strong reverb lead, with a suitable vintage
organ sound filling out the background and taking the middle eight. There's
also organ on Wonderful Land, a sugary sweet version which still manages to
capture the emotion of the original. Mrs. Robinson gets a lengthy outing of
over seven minutes courtesy of a psych-out interlude which works very well.
Definitely a band to watch!
Alan Taylor
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