Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site scirtp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!todd From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Shakin Pyramids Review Message-ID: <519@scirtp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 19:42:01 EDT Article-I.D.: scirtp.519 Posted: Fri Oct 25 19:42:01 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 19:36:24 EDT References: <243@husky.uucp> Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 16 > The Shakin' Pyramids > > If you liked the concept of the Stray Cats but couldn't stand the > hype, commercialization, and the band, then you might want to hear > the untitled album from the Shakin' Pyramids. Kate Bush has the wherewithall to give her albums titles. What an innovative concept from the inventor of the headset microphone and all things groovy. > The Shakin' Pyramids are the British answer to the call of the > Long Island, New York Stray Cats. They dig deeply for the fifties > and sixties rockabilly roots of American music, and bring them right > up to the surface, employing acoustic bass, simple drum kits, and > strummed acoustic guitars. All in all, tastefully and skillfully done. But hey, no "Hounds of Love."