Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
For Geoff Carne it was never about what was left, it was always about continuance, the sheer love of creation, so even in the wake of retirement by the colossus that is Mike Hatz, Geoff Carne took the road unbroken and alongside The Raw Rox Band, Arby ‘Slash’ Rockman, Jim Black, Zoki Jovanoski, and Bob Calvery, the muscle, the memory, the music has found a place which honours that what was, but is unafraid to march forward, to take perhaps a different, and in the case of the new E.P. Love Gun, more uninterrupted and giant resounding sound.
It would be incomprehensible to believe that what was produced by Geoff and Mick could be relegated in feeling and appreciation by those that have had the good fortune to listen to the music created, and it is with that in mind that the listener should see these new pieces as an overlapping concept, an innovation of the self that happily, and productively maintains the belief that all that was will ever be.
The six song strong E.P. is perhaps harder edged, certainly more embracing of the bombastic strut and persistent fire than what the fan may be used to but it deserves its place in the realm of the man and of the future gratitude that will no doubt be placed upon it, and as the tracks, Love Gun, Beautiful, It’s Killing Me, Medicine Man, and the Key Mix of It’s Killing Me, and Love Gun (South Coast Mix) all find their way to the front of the queue to be savoured, the fanfare of delight will surely be outrageously thunderous, and in keeping with the boom of hearts being kick started into gear.
The Love Gun E.P. is a thunderous piece of art, artfully played, stunningly conceived, you would expect no less from a musician highly principled and riotously motivated, and when that love gun fires, when the first hum of th guitar breaks, what remains is the future.
Geoff Carne & The Raw Rox Band release The Love Gun E.P. on April 8th.
Ian D. Hall