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Hollywood Holiday & Drifters (CD)

By: True West (Artist)

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True West Artist Snapshot:

True West lives up to their name, offering fans plenty of California-friendly pop, but drenched in enough chaotic feedback to also make the group cutting edge. Credited with helping to start the '60s pop-meets-post-punk aesthetic that marked the early '80s Paisley Underground scene, True West formed at the turn of that decade, its core members being singer Gavin Blair and guitarists Richard McGrath and Russ Tolman. Tolman, along with Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn, produced their self-titled EP in 1983. Before long, the group was releasing underground hits like HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY and the DRIFTERS, and opening for R.E.M.'s FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION TOUR. But after a countryish turn with HAND OF FATE, the band called it quits in 1987, although they reunite for the odd festival gig.

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DISC 1 for Hollywood Holiday & Drifters (CD) Album By True West (Artist)
1   Steps To The Door
2   I'm Not Here
3   And Then The Rain
4   Hollywood Holiday
5   Lucifer Sam
6   It's About Time
7   Throw Away The Key
8   You
9   Look Around
10   At Night They Speak
11   Speak Easy
12   Shot You Down
13   What About You
14   Hold On
15   And Then The Rain
16   Backroad Bridge Song (What Could I Say)
17   Ain't No Hangman
18   Morning Light
19   Burn The Roses
20   Look Around
21   Throw Away The Key
 

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Review

Spin (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his combo of True West's mid-'80s tag team, HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY and DRIFTERS, will bring joy to a certain type of guitar-rock fiend."

Title Note

True West: Kevin Staydohar, Frank French, Gavin Blair, Richard McGrath, Russ Tolman, Steve Packenham.

Audio Remasterer: Gary Hobish.

If California is America's ultimate Manifest Destiny prize, then True West's bleak neo-psych is the perfect soundtrack for the inevitable "Is this all there is?" moment. Sounding something like a trippier Gun Club crossed with a gothier Dream Syndicate, True West may have been the Paisley Underground's best band, and certainly the most deserving of a success they never attained. This fantastic Atavistic remaster of their debut HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY (also featuring their self-titled EP) aims to correct that error.

The reissue reveals a band as adept with cosmic guitar drone--"Steps to the Door" and the Pink Floyd cover "Lucifer Sam" both anticipate Spacemen 3's hypnotic odysseys--as they are with dark Americana rave-ups (see "Shot You Down" and "Burn the Roses"). Throughout the record, singer Gavin Blair and guitarist Russ Tolman, whose complicated dark jangles predate Johnny Marr's, trade riffs and yowls, but they also know their way around some nice comedown balladry. A fierce, must-own gem for anyone remotely interested in L.A. indie rock in the early '80s.

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