I love it when other more knowledgable listeners notice the details that make Big Wreck so good! Michael is pretty perceptive!

New drop from @bigwreckmusic ! My favorite off the latest EP! Footage from Ian's birthday show at the legendary Horseshoe in TO!

This, to me is Zep level anthemic heaviness!

This is the BIG dog on what might be Big Wreck's finest 5 songs. I believe that Jimmy would be proud..... Here is the full playlist of 7.2

New Big Wreck single from their forthcoming EP 7.2! Spit it Out Some hear a little Zep! What a RIPPER!!!!!

They can't even get on a list slagging them as Zep copiers! Sheesh! https://www.loudersound.com/features/10-bands-that-rip-off-led-zeppelin-but-get-away-with-it?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=classic-rock&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR09jSUDaInu9dXtohHI-S_o5JRB-Pb-x2OF3orzcU66kX88DA87Andr70U

Ian Thornley always seems to have a bit of the Zep going on in many of his compositions... some very subtle, some not so subtle.Here is a playlist with maybe the most overt... (you gotta open in youtube to access the playlist)Happy New Year!

Well, this is appropriate for the thread.... Plus I wrote a gushy thing...High on the HogMy thoughts....So this on the surface is an obvious one. This hits a Zep-lovers sweet spot. I think that it is influenced deeply by the “Big Band” lean that Zep showed throughout their live jams. I remember the old butcher that used to work for me, back in 1980. I was playing some live Zep and he says, “that’s just Big Band riffs”... I was completely insulted, until I looked into it, and damned if he wasn’t right! It’s all a continuum. Just imagine that opening as a horn section! Either way the power and swing are evident.The drumming has that Bonham thwack and swing. The precedent for HOTH (wow it’s even the same acronym as Houses of the Holy!) to me is Hots on for Nowhere. That is the most blatant Big Band-ish tracks and one of my favorites!Ian’s guitar work has SO MANY TASTY TID BITS! All the little bends in the first verse and those step down hick-up time changes are classic Zep! His vocals are some of Ian’s best Plant phrasing! Oh-Woah! Even the tone of the guitar accents are in the “horn” range.The song seems to me to be about the historical music biz. From the gravy days of the 70’s to the bankrupt present where we consume music for free! All about the greed of the music biz. I remember thinking that they needed to find that sweet-spot price wise for a song just as Napster hit. If they could have embraced the digital age instead of fighting it there would have been more for the artists. But they were high on the hog and missed it! Kinda funny.... “I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you?” If you know, you know.Can’t wait to hear the “ding dongs” in the chorus in the Behind the Scenes on this one! Chorus on the first round, is tight and short.... just a preview, like Ian always does. Set up that anticipation for the second.The next verse has so much candy going on! It will deliver over hundreds, no thousands of listens! He is soloing all over this! Accent, wiggle, accent, tippy toe wiggle..... I need to isolate all these tracks!!! Beato save me!Then Sekou at his kinetic best leads us into that second chorus! Just glorious! “The dreams are shattered while your getting paid....” then that guitar riff that we heard first in the outro of All is Fair live! LOVE that riff!Then we hit the bridge.... we switch from a trad Zep to and 80’s driver (and there’s all kinds of wyndee stuff going on in there too! It brought to mind an old fave of mine.Bram Tchaikowsky - The Motors - Dancing the Night Awayhttps://youtu.be/khXhQJFqFu0?t=277And then we go full GnR! Kind of a redux of Welcome to the Jungle. The music biz hog ties the artist until they bleed. Chugga-Chugga and step up to launch... “Givin’ this AWAY FOR FREE!!!” WOW!Now we’re full bore! For one more chorus round! You got ding dongs, accents, tumble-downs! Glorious!But we’re not done yet! That outro is pure Page stutter.To me it’s that “Woody Wood Pecker” stuttering riff that Page plays in For Your Life -https://youtu.be/zkFh7fC7-h8?t=182That stomp, that studder.... and then Davey just takes OVER! His playing around all the structure is so crazy wonderful!!! That hot aggressive attack on the bass weaves in and out. This is going to be a MONSTER jam live!!!

The drummer is Sekou Lumumba. Chuck had to bail for personal reasons. I will relay the studio wizardry you suggested to Ian! Ha!

Here’s a HEAVY and light (like Zep) BW track called Bombs Away. The tail of the solo has that subtle high echo from Dazed and Confused that gives me chills! And here’s some dissection of the track….

Sort of a new approach to releasing music. I am unsure of the success of strategy because I am old, entrenched in my ways and what the fuck do I know! Ha! The collection of songs was a 15 song bunch. It was deemed too rich in content to release as a single “album cycle”. It will be run out over the course of a year and 3 touring cycles. 3 EP’s, 5 songs each. 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and then possibly packaged as a whole. I have heard it all and it is magnificent! They are peaking 23 years into the game! 22 is gonna be a GREAT year!

New Big Wreck 5 song EP 7.1 (1 of 3) High on the Hog - should make Jimmy proud! https://youtu.be/S7Y7PUyV9Bs

New Big Wreck! Standalone single collaboration project to kick off 3, 5 song EPs during the coming months..... sounds like summer! https://youtu.be/S3UfWkg4kOs

LIVE right now at a drive-in show!!!

Big Wreck are one of the finest bands around today! Just caught a look at the setlist! It's a KILLER set with MANY surprises! https://nugs.tv/live-webcasts/5,1344/Big-Wreck-09-2020-El-Mocambo-HD-Toronto-HD-ON.html A teased setlist

Road trips are always worth it!!!!

Jimmy Page should produce them!!!

Here's a rocker!!!! Voices!

LIVE (pro-shot) from Nashville.... Big Wreck..... KILLER!!!

What did you think of the show in general??

GREAT review! But for the Sun - Go GET IT!

New Big Wreck is out... VERY ZEPPY! But for the Sun - Go GET IT! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m5-xDdr1elXF3oVrdM0m90nJUBC6WO6R4&fbclid=IwAR2mhoxSebRTZgJi_ukj0d9XC_e0Pue9cv8tSPZ_BcOYtkNZz1Tk8C8Jxnk

Looks like August 30th album release date! One More Chance "music video" radio? edit Full track My first impressions.... One More Chance Opens with a distant riff with echo of the room and then the band close up rocks in. This has a very ZZ Top at their most ballsy feel, to me. It has a very deliberate pace. As we hit the chorus it’s backed by screming Brian May orchestrated guitar! That THICK tone that permeated the Sheer Heart Attack album. It’s subtle in the midrange but there is a high whine over it all, like screaming high echoed guitar in the main riff of Dazed and Confused. It always MADE that riff on the record for me. The effect sweetens the chorus immensely. The choruses on this entire album are awesome! The verses get back to ZZ business and hot Ian solo run. Another verse/chorus and it drops into doubletime while Ian dances some serious Billy Gibbons honk around. This should SO segue into Caught My Eye. The rhythm section is PERFECT! The high ride and fills propel as Ian’s soloing weaves in and about. I LOVE that little “weee-ooot” bend. There is also a rhythm guitar fade up near the end that chuggs up and I want it to build, but it’s just a 2 bar tease. I LOVE that! ZZ Queen! Billy May Gibbons!

Locomotive!!!! Jimmy lives on in his children!!!