THE GLASSPACK: BridgeBurner CD sealed. Dirty-ass rock Stooges, MC5 fuzzed-out rock. Gimme Shelter cover. VIDEO and audio (whole album)

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Gimme Shelter: The Rolling Stones cover

Louisville’s most notorious power trio, The Glasspack, have always been about a bongload of sheer insanity and attitude combined with a genuine dedication to their unique brand of dirty-ass rock. Bridgeburner, the best album in their career so far, is a most effective blend of the two, a shining example of what the group does best and a throbbing middle finger to music industry squares. The Glasspack is as sweaty and raw as they come, a garage band overdosing on speed, whiskey, and mushrooms, burning their fingertips off like tonight’s their last night on earth. There’s no highfalutin’ intentions here, just an allegiance to the Stooges, MC5, Allman Bros. and classic fuzzed-out rock in general. The vocals are all stoned Iggy desperation and the guitars n’ drums combine to create music for the biker party of your dreams. ‘Twenty-Five Cents’ is a ‘Funhouse’-era chug with odd-sounding feedback notes, their cover of the Stones’ ‘Gimme Shelter’ is a uniquely Glasspack reinterpretation of the classic that’s full of passion and head-tossing sweat, and ‘Peepshow’ is an instrumental with guitar to die for, courtesy of Monster Magnet’s Ed Mundell. In fact, MM’s Bobby Pantella also appears on Bridgeburner, as does Phil Durr from the legendary Big Chief.

Glasspack from 2004 at a SXSW Small Stone Day Party in Austin, TX @ Room 710. The track is “”Bridgeburner””

THE GLASSPACK   Bridgeburner (Small Stone 2004)

Track 11 features Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet, The Atomic Bitchwax) on lead guitar!! Also includes an insane cover of “”Gimme Shelter”” by The Rolling Stones.

Bridgeburner forges even further down that spazzed-out psychedelic road that The Glasspack started with their first two full lengths American Exhaust and Powderkeg. The songs on Bridgeburner smoothly alternate between acid drenched psychedelic numbers and full-on balls-out rockers. Dirty Dave’s guitar playing is always blisteringly hot and maniacally intense, the fuzz is always cranked way past 11 and the energy never lets up – not even on the slower tempo songs, if that makes any sense? The Glasspack effectively pits the “”Shitkicker”” attitude of The Atomic Bitchwax against the spastic psychedelic punk of the MC5, The Stooges and Blue Cheer and then drives Monster Magnet’s “”Tractor”” over top of it all. I highly recommend Bridgeburner as the soundtrack to your next Freak Out. (StonerRock.com)

Track listing
1. Twenty-Five Cents
2. Barn Party
3. Oil Pan
4. Gimme Shelter —> The Rolling Stones cover
5. Hydroplane
6. Hairsoup
7. Gettin’ S*****
8. Lil’ Birdie
9. Bridgeburner
10. Hydroplane (Reprise)
11. Peepshow —-> Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet, The Atomic Bitchwax) on lead guitar!!

Details
Album notes
The Glasspack: “”Dirty”” Dave (vocals, guitar, kazoo); Andrew “”Lil Bucky”” Garret (bass); Brett “”The Cap’n”” Holsclaw (drums); Rico Rakutt (steering wheels, buzzsaw).
Additional personnel includes: “”Dirty Dave”” Johnson (guitar, kazoo, keyboards, bass); Sam Vail, Bucky Garrett (guitar, bass); Phil Durr, Ed Mundell, Scott Hamilton (guitar); Bobby Pantella (bass).
Recorded at Rustbelt Studios, Royal Oak, Michigan.

Jet engine with rhythm
“”Dirty”” Dave Johnson seems like a musician version of a method actor. There is a script, but he lives the part and is both cursed and blessed. The molten lava rock of both American Exhaust and Powderkeg is red hot and merciless; neither album is for fans of mainstream entertainment, but fans of 16-ton rock should own both. MTV2 covered away from The Glasspack’s “”Mrs. Satan”” video. So, what did Johnson and his co-workers do? They stuck to their guns by recording another album of heavy artillery. Bridgeburner shatters windows and makes the walls tremble and doesn’t look back.

Though Johnson’s familiar growl is abundant, this CD’s emphasis is on the music. After listening to it several times in its entirety, the only lyrics I deciphered can’t be printed here. Hence, my question is how do these guys play music like this without repeating themselves? Maybe they’re on a boat with Ozric Tentacles; it’s easy to say if you have one album, you have them all, but that’s misleading. The Glasspack has a `sound’ but each new album is different from the previous. What separates Bridgeburner from the other Glasspack albums? Aside from the vocals being harder to understand, the rolling thunder music takes a step forward. Listen to this CD and you won’t hear a rerun of other Glasspack CDs. “”Gimme Shelter”” is the first appearance of a cover song on a Glasspack album. Not only that, but “”Hairsoup”” might be one of the sexiest slow-burning hard rock song since Uncle Ted’s “”Stranglehold.””

If you dig The Glasspack’s previous work, Bridgeburner is a must-have. If you don’t like one or either of their back records, it can’t hurt to give this one a shot (‘specially after a few shots of Kentucky bourbon) or if you haven’t even heard of The Glasspack until now, try starting with Bridgeburner and working backwards.