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Raw Power Live!

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It's easy to review this album. If you like funk mixed with a little rap, ska and rock, you have to listen to this band! If you want to dance your bum off for 2+ hours, you have to see AMS live. If you can't see them live, this live CD will give you an idea as to their energy! Check them out!

THE ALMIGHTY SENATORS ARE POWERFUL, RIVETING AND FANTASTIC!

Taking up where Sly and the Family Stone would have gone 30 years later, this band is fronted by a brother on drums with a stage presence that is as big as his mushroom-cloud Afro-wig and the personality to command an army of players. How about a hybrid of breakneck acid rock-funk-jazz? Not in this dimension? That's all right, because Landis Expandis and his friends have their home beyond our galaxy, and when they get together to play, the universe listens. Just listen to them cook with ritmo loco rhythms on "Trendsetter," and you'll be on the passenger manifest as the guitar solo ignites like a giant rocket behind the belching saxophones and trumpet.

I had the opportunity to speak with guitarist Warren Boes at a booty-shakin' November show in NYC at the Mercury Lounge about his style, which has a tone that I last heard on Crosswinds, a release by the Mahavisnu Orchestra's drummer, Billy Cobham. Sure enough, Warren's hero and inspiration is John Abercrombie--and the Senators are getting rave reviews from must-see shows from Mars and alternate locations in other quadrants. Those wind storms on Jupiter?-that's the horn section doing their frenzy on "Triumphant." Lock this in before they make the leap to hyperspace. Oh, and when you make the trip, be sure to get acclimated before "Culture Shock" gets you in the groove and you watch your partner shake their thing--all three of them, if he or she is a Senators fan. They don't make `em like this here on Earth and never will again!

This is one of my all time favorite CD's. I love the mixture of funk and rock, synthesizers, originality and pure silliness. For example one song is introduced as a "love song" but it's a funky tribute to booty. Transmitta is a comic-book hero's hymn to the mysterious source of MUSIC and all creative energy. It is humorously spiritual. And Landis! How can a guy stand up and play drums and sound so good? I don't get that. Going to an All Might Senators show will provide you with some hard-rocking, highly funky serious entertainment. They are a sexy rock band but they don't tkae them selves seriously. They are fun and funny. The energy and humor of their live show comes across on this CD. If you like original, honest, technicolor sexy humor, you'll like the Senators.