Detroit’s Easy Action! Featuring Negative Approach/Laughing Hyenas vocalist John Brannon, Easy Action is down and dirty rock n roll with the feel of being in a ghetto ghost town! Brannon’s still as frightening in his vocal assault as he ever was in his previous 2 bands, but more focused and truly more powerful. That shotgun blast is no longer all over the place, he burns the audience with a taser, up close. The band’s swagger is overall highlighted by the angular and mesmerizing guitar sound of Harold Richardson (ex-Gravitar), and a powerful rhythm section of Tony Romeo (bass) and Matt Becker (drums).

Listening to this now and, surprise, it’s damn tough. I’m supposed to go see these blokes late in Detroit tonight, but guess what? I’m pretty much the same trembling mess I was yesterday, and am in danger of forfeiting the first thing approaching a social outing I’ve had in weeks because I am feeling too much of everything. Goddamn it.

If I rally, it’ll be out of pure shame, and if I take my condition seriously enough to skip out on the gig, I’ll beat myself up about it. ‘Living le dream over here, Cobras and Joes.