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 Post subject: MR: Asssume the Position, it's... Jarvis Humby
PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:51 pm 
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Picked this up with a Best Buy gift card, and pulled the trigger (mostly) because of the descriptions on the sticker and the album cover.

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Try as we might, no one here can think of a name more British sounding than Jarvis Humby. He clearly must be the king of mod-swingers, this Humby character. What you say? Jarvis Humby is actually four blokes? Well then, they've set themselves up to quite a task with a name like that. They even put images of Keith Richards, the Who, the Beatles and a friggin' Union Jack on their album cover. Fortunately, these Humby boys deliver everything they promise. Pure liquid adrenalin R&B, complete with fuzzed guitars, white-boy blues vocals and an omnipresent Hammond that coats everything with a 1964 flavor. "99 Steps to the Sun" could be the official follow-up to ? & the Mysterians' "96 Tears," but they don't leave it at that. Opener "We Say Yeah!" is excellent if typical garage rock until the closing holler of "Yeah, yeah yeah" that you can imagine soundtracking the toga party scene in Animal House (originally filled by Lloyd Williams' "Shout"). "These Eyes" sounds like R.E.M. sounding like the Byrds, with it's antique 12-string tumble and "The 4th Man" is pure spy show/surf guitar goodness. Coming complete with white pants and Fender reverb, Jarvis Humby will make you want to grow your bangs, pop a couple of pep pills and head on down to Brighton to dance around and fight with the rockers. Vintage!


Listening now and it's pretty good. We'll see how it sinks in, but it's making a good first impression.
Did a search for this and found no talk about it on here so... if there has been any, please point me in that direction.

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.


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 Post subject: Re: Asssume the Position, it's... Jarvis Humby
PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:50 pm 
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I'M HUMBY, DAMMIT!

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 Post subject: Re: Asssume the Position, it's... Jarvis Humby
PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:25 am 
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Anyone?
I can't believe that I got the drop on the entire board on this one. That never happens.

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.


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