VA — Greg Shaw — He Put The Bomp! In The Bomp (2007)

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Greg Shaw — He Put The Bomp! In The Bomp
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Vivid Sound / BOMP! [VSCD3416] Genre: Alternative Rock, Garage Rock, Power Pop
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log, scans)
Total : 1:12:03
Total Size: 191 mb / 512 mb

Greg Shaw wasn\’t a musician, but he had a greater positive impact on rock & roll than many people who\’ve put out dozens of records. Shaw was a record collector and passionate rock & roll fan who founded one of the first rock fanzines, Mojo Navigator, that in evolved into his magazine Bomp, which focused on the kind of real rock & roll most major magazines ignored. Shaw also wrote for other publications, worked as an A&R man for several record labels, and managed the Flamin\’ Groovies for a spell, and in the \’70s, he put his money where his ideals were and launched his own independent label, Bomp Records, and released a steady stream of classic garage rock, punk, and power pop recordings that continues to this day. In the fall of 2004, heart failure claimed Shaw\’s life at the age of 55, and He Put the Bomp in the Bomp is a compilation album that pays homage to Shaw\’s work and his guiding influence. Since he didn\’t make records of his own, it isn\’t a tribute album in the usual sense, and it doesn\’t focus strictly on music that was released by Bomp over the years. Instead, He Put the Bomp features 23 acts who play the kind of raw, heartfelt, and passionate rock & roll that Shaw championed, each covering a different classic tune. Some of the combinations seem pretty obvious — the Plimsouls grooving on the Easybeats\’ \»Good s\» or Nikki Corvette tearing into the Pleasure Seekers\’ \»What a Way to Die\» — while others are a bit more cryptic, such as the Morning After Girls transfog Kim Fowley\’s \»The Trip\» into a slow, narcotic drift, and the Warlocks closing the show with \»Hey Man\» by Spacemen 3. But the guiding principle seems to have been to get the kind of bands Greg Shaw liked and have them play songs Shaw would dig, and thankfully nearly everyone here hits that nail on the head. Nikki Sudden and Captain Sensible deliver a surprisingly effective acoustic version of Iggy Pop\’s \»Kill City,\» Outrageous Cherry\’s cover of the Gants\’ \»I Wonder\» is simply luminous, the Black Keys transform the Cramps\’ \»I Can\’t Find My Mind\» into something even more messed-up than the original, \»Him or Me\» by the Dukes of Earl is pure frat rock bliss, and \»Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)\» finds the Barracudas making the most of a great Roky Erickson tune. He Put the Bomp In the Bomp is an eclectic set that covers a fair amount of stylistic ground, but every track in one way or another speaks of a deep love for rock & roll, and it\’s not hard to imagine that Greg Shaw would have gotten a pretty big kick out of it.
:: TRACKLIST ::

1 The Plimsouls — Good s
2 The Briefs — She\’s Just A Girl On The Block
3 The Black Keys — Can\’t Find My Mind
4 Lyres — What\’s Wrong With You?
5 The Fuzztones — I Gotta Way With Girls
6 Outrageous Cherry — I Wonder
7 The Dukes Of Earl — Him Or Me
8 Buffalo Killers — Don\’t You Ever Think I Cry
9 Nikki Corvette & The Hell On Heels — What A Way To Die
10 SSM — Screwed Up
11 The Morning After Girls — The Trip
12 Radio Moscow — I Just Want To Make Love To You
13 The Loons — I\’m Dissatisfied
14 Brimstone Howl — Slow Death
15 Soledad Brothers — Walking The Dog
16 Stalkers — Chunk Of Steel
17 Coffin Lids — Sonic Reducer —
18 The Konks — Beat Your Heart Out
19 The Last — Pablo Picasso
20 Nikki Sudden & Captain Sensible — Kill City
21 The Barracudas — Red Temple Prayer (Two Headed Dog)
22 Dwarves — Life Of C
23 The Warlocks — Hey Man

Dedicated To The Memory Of Greg Shaw (1949-2004)
:: ::