True Believers
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By Tom Fellens
I'm 56 years old. I watched The Beatles premier on The Ed Sullivan Show. I am lucky enough to have lived through the Seventies heydays of The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Black Sabbath, and AC/DC, and fell in love to the new punk sounds of The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Patti Smith Group, Elvis Costello, and The Ramones. The first time I heard "War", I knew that U2 were going to be the next World's Biggest Band. REM, The Pixies, and The Smiths rocked my Eighties. The Nineties carried the tradition excitingly forward with Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and The Afghan Whigs. I first heard The Wans earlier this summer when previewing bands on The Forecastle Festival lineup. This is a band that sounds like it has fully ingested the proud history of the sound and is ready to carry the torch forward. Blues rock, stoner rock, and grunge smack head-on with each other on their debut full length "He Said, SheSaid". And if you don't believe that collision doesn't make for a beautiful noise, you just don't know good rock and roll when it walks up and hits you in the face. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
