Pulling Out Just Enough To Win : TAB The Band : Review : Rolling Stone

Aerosmith guitar god Joe Perry once told Rolling Stone he enjoyed turning his kids on to classic Sixties stoner rock like Moby Grape, Fleetwood Mac and Blodwyn Pig. "I don't know if we would be the same band without Blodwyn Pig," he said in 2001. "And nobody's fucking heard of Blodwyn Pig!" The kids in Tab the Band know their Blodwyn Pig — but then, they're Joe Perry's sons. They play bluesy, sleazy guitar raunch that evokes early Aerosmith, along with a host of now-obscure hippie faves. Tony and Adrian Perry (plus a drummer whose name begins with B, which is still no excuse for the band name) are one Boston power trio proudly schooled in the past, doing the old man proud. "Mitch Connor" is the finest Foghat tribute you'll hear all year (and probably the only one). Tab bite Deep Purple in the timely Scientology satire "The House of El Ron." "Chuckles" could pass for second-album Steppenwolf, while "Paid for By" is pure Exile Stones. But the peak is "Secretary's Day," which sounds like nothing so much as I've Got the Rock 'n Rolls Again, the absurdly underrated second album by the Joe Perry Project.

ROB SHEFFIELD

(Posted: Mar 6, 2008)

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3of 5 Stars

Daddy Joe seemed to run out of musical ideas after Toys In The Attic and Rocks, and his boys seem to run out of musical ideas within the context of a single album. This sounds to me like George Thurogood doing an album of Aerosmith and Stones covers. To me a lot of the material here has a serious case of sameness. Maybe TAB stands for Tepid And Bland.

Feb 25, 2008 10:40:54

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