It's a
harsh fact that very few bands are able to maintain a stable level of
fame and fortune.
Most
follow a trend, and that trend is that one year they can be riding
high in the charts, walking down red carpets, selling out stadiums
and drawing the attention of the paparazzi like flies around the
proverbial.
Then the
next year they're headlining bars, being featured in 'where are they
now' articles in music magazines and getting restraining orders that
state that they are not to go within ten feet of a professional
photographer.
There are
of course exceptions to the rule.
Some do
cling onto a a healthy level of patronage from fans and manage to
carve themselves a niche in the music business that no one seems to
be able to prise them from.
Others,
like Electric 6. stick a middle finger up to waves of popularity,
latest trends, and those who base their lives around aligning
themselves to whose hot and whose not.
Instead
they tour, make an album, tour, make an album, tour and then make
another album before touring again ad infinitum, and they do this
with style, panache, and a bleary eyed wink to the whole sordid world
of the music business.
So in
other words by dint of not giving much of a fuck they are in fact far
more relevant than they are often credited as being.
They
exist to entertain and party with their fans, and it really is as
simple as that, and if you consider that being able to entertain is
far more important than the trappings of fame then it's hard not to
accept that these guys may well be one of the best acts in the world.
Look back
on their career and regardless of chart positions it's a fact that
they have yet to release a poor album.
So far
there hasn't even been a hint of filler on anything.
Live they
give one hundred percent every night that they play, and then they
push it harder again to ensure that when their fans leave that they
don't just think that they have seen a good show, but instead know
deep down that they have.
There's
no half measures, no quarter given when they hit a stage, and now we
have proof of that with their latest release, the career encompassing
Absolute Pleasure.
Originally
it was allegedly supposed to be a double album with the first disc
featuring their debut 'Fire' being played in its totality, and the
second being made up of the bands favourites from the rest of the
albums.
Unfortunately
that wasn't to be, and instead its a seventeen track hit and run
molotov cocktail of a live set that screams what Electric 6 are all
about.
A
schizophrenic mix of punk, funk disco and rock.
My only
complaint about this album is that the title doesn't really convey
how good it is.
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