Title: Deadheads
Product review: Dirty Three are in essence the Grateful Dead, squashed down to a trio. The formula is the same: modal jamming on a simple riff, build to a climax, and let it die out. Occasionally I think the band stumbles into some good moods, but this is quite pedestrian music-making: Warren Ellis' intonation is, frankly, atrocious, and don't dare tell me that he's playing out of tune on purpose a la Ornette Coleman. He is incapable of playing an extended line in tune. The other two aren't bad, but without someone playing in the bass range, they lack bottom, and as a result, lack punch when they really need it. Not truly bad, but nothing to write home about.
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