Title: Spirited but unfocused and largely uninteresting
Product review: Recorded before an overly enthused crowd that takes pleasure in nearly ever note played, "Release the Grease Live" documents Deep Banana Blackout live, front and center. Certainly this jam-band set is nothing if not spirited, but the music too often descends into a cacophony of noise that sounds unfocused and largely uninteresting.The band's good performances on Sweet `Tater Pie (the only track here that is too short), Homo Lingo, Fashion, and I Believe avert total disaster of the sort typified on Devil's Harvest, where a shrill, unpleasant noise created by an "electronic valve instrument" would likely work to keep one's yard free from moles and rodents.I had hoped for some of the energy and complexity of say, Ten Wheel Drive, given that Deep Banana Blackout matches that long-lost band's instrumentation pretty well and Hope Clayburn is one heck of a vocalist (not that I'm putting her in the league of Genya Ravan). Oh well, listen and learn.
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