Country-fried metal (never mind that these guys were Yanks) recorded recklessly in the red, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ram drops the listener in the garage just as our blue collar bozos have popped the cork on a particularly toxic bottle o' hooch. Kicking in with the rabid "Gone Wild," Ram Jam tackle each song with all the skill and determination of a pack of cavemen taking down a mastodon, consistently plastering you to the wall with riffmonsters like "Pretty Poison," "Wanna Find Love," and "Just Like Me," only pausing for the surprisingly sober "Turnpike" and oddly hospitable, probably recorded at gunpoint "Saturday Night." Idiot-savants of hard rock, Ram Jam sound like they might not be able to tie their shoes if they even wear any, but who's got time when Portrait begs another spin? –Ben
No comments:
Post a Comment