UNDERGROUND A&R REPORT

Cobretti - Violation Guaranteed


Well, I had quit drinking for a while before I got this disc, but damned if this hell-bent, messed up, uglier than thou big beat rock n roll didn't just make me fall off the wagon, I burnt the damned thing to the ground and danced in the ashes! There's nothing pretty about Cobretti, more like an infected switch blade wound, too loud in places, distorted bass drums, yelled Iggy-style uncomprehensible lyrics grating over loose double guitars with too much midrange. Somehow it all works, like the 'ol libido that somehow finds it's way back to top performer after so many nights of nothing, all of a sudden it's loud, it's wild, and you're grinnin' like a maddog, cause the boy's done good when they all predicted failure. The rave up blast of "Bender" says it all, power chorded extended riffs lay into single note blues stingers that barely pass inspection before they give way to the follow-up "White Lightning" where that next hit begins to take your mind. Cobretti is a real rock n roll band, they aren't singing about losing the girl, they're singing about baggin' her, and celebrating the rough lifestyle that will eventually kill them, and make them legends in the same. A few spots I'll be damed if I don't hear some early Alice Cooper psuedo-psychedelic garage flailings going' on, but it won't be long before that garage gets all toasted with southern style debauchery that propelled great bands like Hatchet and Skynrd into rock stardom (listen to Midnight Cowboy and Bought Some Luv). Remember though, before you kill that last shot of black jack, this here's a Cali-forn-i-a band, so even though you got the motor-city footprint on songs like "Killin' Me", and upper east coast sassy - "Full Service" - think vintage Kiss circa Dressed To Kill - that damned west coast madness comes through, plastering your ears with the sonic assault that place seems to bring out in full force, no matter where the various parts come from, as Cobretti slams out the last two numbers "Taste The Freedom" and "Outta My Way", like G&R when they were worth a shit, oh so long ago. Turn it up and trash it! Contact: Wondertaker Records, http://www.wondertaker.com, http://www.cobretti.us, http://www.myspace.com/cobrettisf