Monkey No.9 [Import]

Davey Brothers (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 11, 2003)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 2003
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Artists Network
• ASIN: B0000ADP67
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #639,202 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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INCLUDES BONUS DVD - MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO Former members of Hoax, the Davey Brothers present this special set comprising two albums and a bonus dvd packed with videos, documentaries and loads more goodies

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4.0 out of 5 stars Raw power, July 5, 2006

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Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monkey No.9 (Audio CD)

The Davey Brothers are loud. Sometimes, when I throw open my study windows, I fancy I can hear them, borne on the wind from their practice studio, seven miles away in Devizes. This record sounds loud, too. You can tell that they clearly had all the monitor amps turned up to eleven when they cut these tracks from the effect the volume has had on the sound, a phenomenon extensively explored in the sixties by the Jefferson Airplane. The result is a record that has the power of a live performance, capturing the kind of intensity to be found on Raw Power, Move It On Over, Down By The Jetty or Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The Davey Brothers are Robin and Jesse, who play a kind of quirky, acid-drenched blues, and the comparison with Jimi Hendrix is apt as the first disc includes a nifty surf-guitar version of Third Stone From The Sun. On the second, they further pay their blues dues with a nod to Jimmy Reed on Baby What You Want Me To Do, the rest of the material being their own compositions.
It was an ambitious idea to debut with a self-produced double album which they also, mixed, mastered and edited themselves, but on top of that there is a third disc which is an hour-long DVD of music videos, live performances, creative larking about in the woods and hidden features which I have yet to discover, as the duo are also film-makers and producers. What, no time to be astronauts as well? Slackers.
A fine record.