Various: Pie Cart Rock 'n Roll - New Zealand Rock 'n Roll 1957 and 1962
By Dominic Blaazer
This compilation should be a welcome release to anyone who likes good music, an NZ music completist, or any fan of early rock and roll. Over 25 garage bands are featured, with recordings made using a couple of mics, or maybe just one, and a reel-to-reel. These were then released on NZ labels like Zodiac, Tanza, Viking or overseas ones like HMV. The re-mastering gives them a fighting chance so you can hear a great representation of what was going on in the halls and milkbars. Local songwriters get a fair suck of the sav and Johnny Cooper's title track kicks the whole thing off in fine scrap-in-the-carpark style. He's ably supported by Johnny Devlin, Max Merritt, Glyn Tucker, Bob Paris, the Howard Morrison Quartet and many, many others. I had the most fun with The Hulawaians' Hawaiian Rock'n'Roll and Sam Mataparae with the Rocking Rockers' Rocking Rockers Theme Song. Cool pictures, cool sleeve notes, cool CD. Out on Zerox records through FMR.
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