An excerpt from Shane Pinnegar’s Live Launch Review
(March 3, 2012 / Western Australia Show)
This night has been a long time coming – I reviewed Jac Dalton’s second album “Icarus” way back in 2010, rating it highly in my best albums of the year [It placed #20 in THE ROCKPIT’s overall best albums of that year!] but with a busy life and the LANDAID charity to set up, this live launch has taken a while to get to.
Dalton, a North Carolinan export now living in South Australia, connected to Perth’s premier guitar maestro Graham Greene via Global Thunder Network’s Nana Mex, and if that wasn’t inspired A & R perfection then I don’t know what is.
The bands deserved a fuller room for this auspicious occasion, but Greene & Dalton never give less than their all – as do the rest of the band: Donna Greene on backing vocals, guitarist Annemieke Heijne, Bassist Jim Awram, Jason Dohrmann on keys and drummer Troy Brazier, collectively delivering a fantastic set of passionate and vibrant melodic rock.
Dalton’s voice has something reminiscent of a younger David Coverdale – rich honey and whiskey seeping through velvet wrapped charcoal – and as guitar solos flash and sizzle either side of him, the album’s songs take on new life, electricity and crowd amplifying their energy and depth, especially on the punchy boogie of ‘Armed & Dangerous’, the luscious Toto groove of ‘For Your Love’, and the carpet-bombing assault of set closer ‘Locked, Cocked & Ready To Rock’.
Maestro Greene is also on fire, his Ormsby signature guitars on scorching form, and the band deliver an incredible statement of intent from this live debut, their eyes firmly on the prize!
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