Reviewed by Eric Saeger
I can allow for vanity releases (the press blurb is that this is the record company’s first release), and I can deal with someone wanting to take some of John Cougar’s pie (if there is any – know anyone who bought the latest John Cougar, I mean Mellencamp, album?). I can even tolerate a little ripping off of Hank Williams Jr.’s theme for Monday Night Football (on That Girl), because it’s nice to have Monday Night Football in this country (it’s better than “Monday Night Ice-Curling,” admit it). But jeez guy, if the idea pool is that small and your idea of hard-ass edge is Hendrix, would it have been possible, pretty please, to restrain yourself from ripping off Hendrix’s most famous tune, Purple Haze, in S&M? You will never hear of this guy again, but now you know that he likes old Hendrix. Old, old Hendrix. Cripes.
Grade: C-
[For what it’s worth, I think their version of Little Wing is pretty nice – Ed]
