Scream, Dracula, Scream!

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Rocket From The Crypt: Speedo (vocals, guitar); ND (guitar); Apollo 9 (saxophone); JC2000 (trumpet); Petey X (bass); Atom (drums). Additional personnel: Mick Collins, Frank Daly (vocals); Eric Christian (guitar); Don Palmer, Jay Rosen (violin); James Ross (viola); Raymond Kelley (cello); John Reis, Sr. (accordion); Geoff Harrington (Hammond B-3 organ); Diane Gordon, Natalie Burks, Latina Webb, Roger Freeland, Gene Miller, Joseph Pizzulo (background vocals). Recorded in early 1995. With the gleeful, overwhelming fury of a runaway train, Rocket From The Crypt's second major-label album, SCREAM, DRACULA, SCREAM!, proves there is still some fight left in guitar-rock's supposedly decomposing body, that three chords and a furious pace can still be a road-map to some twisted version of salvation, and that, regardless of what even the album's liner notes tell you, punk rock is not dead. Spurred on by a two-man horn section that seemingly learned to play by listening to STICKY FINGERS-era Stones, RFTC embrace rock's leather-clad traditions--from Eddie Cochran to The Ramones--with a rambunctious, all-or-nothin' attitude. So, of course the songs are anthemic, with very-rock-and-roll lyrics that both the young and the young-at-heart can shout in rebellion--the priceless chorus of "Born In '69" goes: "I want it/I need it/I steal it/ALL RIGHT!!!" But the songs never descend into watered-down formulas. That's because RFTC also have a grasp of where the noise they're harnessing comes from. Touches of Spectorian production, lyrical and musical allusions to The Stooges, and a JB-like tightness o' groove all litter SCREAM, DRACULA, SCREAM!'s landscape--turning what seems to be so simple into much, much more.