Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Robby Lochner - Call Of Monsoon

I was attracted to Robby’s playing on the latest Dig Jelly CD because his playing was an integral part of a group sound. His playing skills were obvious, but he never went out of the way to overwhelm the group, but added the spices to make the album the exciting rock and roll that it is. The only thing I could have asked for on the album was to have one song where the musicians could stretch and share their abilities to jam. Didn’t hurt the album not to have that, but could possibly have enhanced it.

Well, here we have Robby stretching and showing off his skills on his own album. There are other players here, but it’s definitely Robby’s show, and that’s alright because his guitar solos never get to the point where they dawdle and start boring the listener. He keeps himself reigned in to deliver a message of joyful virtuosity and rocks the Wednesday night dance floor with lots of good old fashioned rolling down the back sweat. Robby’s solo CD is a dessert on top of the delicious meal that is Dig Jelly's ParaNoize. Shoutouts for Vigor Of Expression, Remember When and the fun guitar/drum interplay of The Walk. Robby Lochner