Phil Dirt - Reverb Central - PO Box 1609, Felton, CA 95018-1609 USA Link Protrudi and the Jaymen - Drive It Home
 | Link Protrudi and the Jaymen play wicked Link Wray inspired, garage dominated instrumentals. They rip! This album was repackaged as Hit and Run with a bunch of tracks added. |
Picks: Avalanche, Backfire, Chicken Choke, The Stroll, Slinky, Mr. Guitar, Commanche, No Stopping, Orbit, Rawhide, Bodacious, Hanky Panky, Psyclone, Bandito, Chaquita, Rumble
Track by Track Review
Garage Fuzzabilly (Instrumental)
Major poundy progression distorto grind, chunky, punky, infectious, and LOUD. "Avalanche" is definitely intense riff rock, with stinging whammy.
Garage Fuzzabilly (Instrumental)
"Backfire" is a progression based riff rocker covered in grunge and powered by fuzz and big chords.
Surf (Instrumental)
There's no Sterno needed to percolate the coffee bubba, just a few seconds of "Percolator Stomp." Stompin', chompin' fun.
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
The Diamonds did the original, twisted in it's midnight graveyard haunting. Missing the dementia of the original, but amply nasty. What a cool selection to cover in this slow Link Wray way. Very cool!
Garage Fuzzabilly (Instrumental)
Link Wray fuzz, walking bass, and a finger poppin' cool beat. Super simple highly effective track, intensely pushed into your living room, and thoroughly enjoyable. Ugly feedback, square wave distortion, and an almost beat generation coolness. Gradually fades out.
Surf (Instrumental)
Riffology draped over an open garage door in the rain, with a lumbering break and strong drum work. Shreddin' hard, eating sand for the pleasure.
Garage Fuzzabilly (Instrumental)
Everyone seems to do this... it's a chord grinder progression tune with little melody, but lots of power. This is a dark and fuzzy grind cover.
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
Grode riffin' garage rant... none too shy of edge and guts. "No Stopping" is raw and nasty. Wow.
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
Fuzzier, yet more surfy, this track has the structure of a post surf instro, and is about as hot as they come, performance wise. The melody is riff based, and the attack is superb. The original was by Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Garage Fuzzabilly (Instrumental)
Link Wray's well known monster, not the theme to the TV show. This is just plane huge. Intense, and completely pumped. The monitor feedback that appears in spots seems appropriate.
Garage Fuzzabilly (Instrumental)
Strongly Bo Diddley-ed cover of I Want Candy, with a ton of fuzz, and a huge selection of energy. Even the monitor feedback adds to the grode feel of this pumped in-your-face track.
Garage Fuzzabilly (Instrumental)
Just enough cool, and more than enough distortion. This is a fine whammied garagification of the Tommy James & the Shondells' hit from 30 years ago. The pace is accelerated, and the grode generator is turned up to 11. Cool track.
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
Funky bass lines, slow deliberate pace, and a surf dominated melody, complete with appropriate whammy and amble twang. This is a fine track, with spiffy guitar, and solid playing from bass and drums as well. Very nice.
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
A fine rolling track, with real surf reverb, and a fine surf melody that playfully wanders through some Spanish territory and some beach front property. Cool and very visual. restrained and almost refined. Great track.
Surf (Instrumental)
This non-CD track rules with rhythm and power (surprise surprise). No limits to the thick and awesome energy of this nearly fanatical raver. A fine melody line and spectacular energy, with lots of reverb magic.
Garage Surf (Instrumental)
Thick and brooding, this is a cover of the album version. darkness abounds in this trashy nasty version of Link Wray's monster.