So I read some Patto love here on ILM awhile back and tucked it in the memory banks as something I should check out when given the chance.
Well, Hold Your Fire was first up, and it has blown my mind. Ollie Halsall? What the hell was going on there? Dude was a monster - not only on the guitar, but on vibes and on keys.
I'm really digging Mike Patto's vocals, too. Sorta like a jr. Steve Marriott sometimes, although far more subtle. His lyrics get really fun on "Roll Em Skoke Em Put Another Line Out" and "Monkey's Bum" - perhaps a little wince-worthy on tracks like "You, You Point Your Finger."
And I'll be damned if the new Wilco album doesn't betray a Patto influence. Faux-soulisms, brief moments of similar rollicking abandon and Nels Cline has some Ollie-isms in his playing, no doubt.
Anyhow, if I'm loving the Patto, what else should I hear? I'm going to track down the first two Boxer albums, I think.
― Brooker Buckingham, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)
You should check out Timebox for a start, the '60s precursor which featured both Patto and Halsall. I think
The Deram Anthology is still available; their repertoire veered schizophrenically between Brill Building pop, Northern Soul (their "Beggin'" is one of the best Four Seasons covers ever), psychedelia, nascent metal and lounge jazz.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 26 April 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)
thirteen years pass...