"Joe Perry" - Music Review
Boston Herald
April 29, 2005
More compelling and harder-rocking than at least two of his three previous solo albums - and a few Aerosmith albums as well - "Joe Perry" shows what Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry did during the band's not-permanent vacation. And it sure sounds like he had fun making this play-it-yourself, home-studio production, which hits stores Tuesday.
Featuring a palette of guitar tones that would make Billy Gibbons green, "Joe Perry" is a bolt of raging, multilayered blues-rock chased with elements of Aerosmithian exotica, a few nice-guy ballads and a couple of pointed instrumentals. It comes in the new DualDisc format: a standard CD on one side and a bunch of DVD extras on the other.
Perry's deadpan, offhand voice occasionally recalls Lou Reed and Jim Morrison - and he makes the latter connection explicit with a cover of The Doors' "Crystal Ship." If the vocals occasionally sound uninspired, that's not something you can say about the guitar playing, which is copious, incendiary and gripping. When the music does the talking, "Joe Perry" speaks highly of its maker. Download: "Can't Compare."
April 29, 2005
More compelling and harder-rocking than at least two of his three previous solo albums - and a few Aerosmith albums as well - "Joe Perry" shows what Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry did during the band's not-permanent vacation. And it sure sounds like he had fun making this play-it-yourself, home-studio production, which hits stores Tuesday.
Featuring a palette of guitar tones that would make Billy Gibbons green, "Joe Perry" is a bolt of raging, multilayered blues-rock chased with elements of Aerosmithian exotica, a few nice-guy ballads and a couple of pointed instrumentals. It comes in the new DualDisc format: a standard CD on one side and a bunch of DVD extras on the other.
Perry's deadpan, offhand voice occasionally recalls Lou Reed and Jim Morrison - and he makes the latter connection explicit with a cover of The Doors' "Crystal Ship." If the vocals occasionally sound uninspired, that's not something you can say about the guitar playing, which is copious, incendiary and gripping. When the music does the talking, "Joe Perry" speaks highly of its maker. Download: "Can't Compare."
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