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    Heaven's Metal #33/The 77's
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    The 77's

    Eighty Eight

    (1991)

    Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

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    Label Brainstorm ArtistsHeaven's Metal #33January 1992
    alternative rockblues rockclassic rock

    Mix The Kinks, Led Zeppelin's 78-80 era, U2, a host of pre-Rock 'n' Roll blues men, and a couple hundred sweaty people together and you'll get a great rockin' album like the live presentation of The 77's at The Warehouse in 1988. Anyone who really appreciates da blooz will dig these tunes. I mean, when you take a tune like "Mercy, Mercy", throw a jam in the middle of it, and stretch it out to 11 minutes, and then follow it up with two consecutive 12-minute tunes, you either have some great rock 'n' roll or some over-indulgent mess. Well, real rock 'n' roll is a little of both, I guess, and you get it all here.

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