The Dead Daisies - Revolucion

While the whole wide rock world, is being hijacked by paid for media networks, and sweaty chubby English girls that pose off, as “Rock Journalists” (nothing wrong with chubby English girls, as long as their funbags much their junk trunk and their faces are not like a moose), it’s good to know that there are bands out there, like the Dead Daisies who are “keeping it real”...
 
In fact, The Dead Daisies are not exactly a band but more of a musical collective as they seem to originally have been conceived between Richard Fortus (Guns N’ Roses), Jon Stevens (INXS, Noiseworks) and David Lowy (Mink) and have since involved at various times a rotation of top rock musicians that has included Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones), Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses), Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy), Charley Drayton (The Cult, Divinyls, Cold Chisel), John Tempesta (The Cult), Brian Tichy (Whitesnake), Frank Ferrer (Guns N’ Roses), Alex Carapetis (Nine Inch Nails), Clayton Doley, Jackie Barnes (Jimmy Barnes) and Alan Mansfield. Go figure… as the most recent members to join the collective in 2015 are John Corabi (Motley Crue/Union), Jackie Barnes (Jimmy Barnes) and Bernard Fowler (The Rolling Stones).  But “Revolucion” which comes on the heels of their 2013 eponymous debut features, former Motley Crue singer John Corabi, the Axl N’Guns N' Roses pairing of Richard Fortus and Dizzy Reed (the latter was on the “Illusion” GNR stuff) on guitar and keyboards, Ausie guitarist David Lowy, who seems to be one of the few “original” members and the “soul” of this project, bass player Marco Mendoza – who’s previously played with Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake and Ted Nugent among many others and drummer Brian Tichy whose also held membership at various times in bands like Whitesnake, Foreigner and Ozzy Osbourne... Quite the list, I’m sure, you’ll agree...
 
Although the “Modus Operandi” of the collective as well as its membership, would make you a little skeptical about their musical output, the actual tracks, speak for themselves, as there’s an authenticity and a great rocking attitude in them that simply cannot be faked. From the free flowing rockin’ opener “Mexico” to the groovy and strutter of “Looking for the One”, the Dead Daisies, don’t second guess themselves for a single second... there’s the rock, the blues, the folk influences, all fused under one authoriative sound amalgam. On “Something I Said” there’s a bluesier, softer, balladesque tone and Corabi’s grit, also, sells this, even more, with the “brused hurt” his performance adds... “Sleep” is sweeping and big – think a more introspective and blue “November Rain” by GNR, reimagined for the 21st century. Elsewhere “Midnight Moses” builds up to an impressive and powerful crescendo and is worth of your attention... feeling a bit like a Cult single, drenched too much in Aussie rock n roll juices… this is an elaborate take on the past half century of rock, brought up to date... by a bunch of Rock ‘n Roll veterans in an unpretentious setting that doesn’t set out any expectations and thus manages to avoid, breaking any “promises”...
 
The appeal of the “Daisies” is also wide and far reaching, from fans of the bands in which these guys have been in, to classic rockers, punks, popsters, even metalheads... it doesn’t matter if you’re older or younger, there’s still enough elements in “Revolucion” to keep you interested and engaged… It also gets better with consecutive listens… so… give in...