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(Translated by Eivi Sundance from my original Italian text)
Ron Kleim (vocals)
and Pete Weinberger (lead guitar) played
together in Eugene (Oregon), in a band called The Surf Trio. The Surf Trio had already
released the EP Surf Trio (Moxie, 1985),
the LP Almost Summer (Voxx, 1986), the mini-LP Safari In A Living Graveyard
(Moxie, 1987) and various singles.
Kleim,
Steve Frothingham and Jayson Breeton
then, formed “The Marble Orchard” and in a short while they
released the single Something Happens (Estrus, 1990)
coming up beside with The Miracle Workers between garage-rock local heroes.
Their
Savage Sleep (Estrus, 1991), with
Weinberger on guitar,
is a perfect remembrance
of those glorious years,
starting
with Please Come Down, a mocking version of
Born To Be Wild, going on with a scorching Girl With No Name, passing
through the peppy country-rock of Love’s
Just Begun and the trembling hard-rock of You’re Never Gonna
Hold Me.
But the covers
steal the scene from the original compositions.
Nothing
that The Original Sins hadn’t already done before, and way better.
They
released on singles and compilations: Go Now, No Way Home, Munsters
Theme, Nova ’69, The Rise, It’s My Time (Estrus,
1992).
The Lp Agent Invisible (September Gurls,
1993), without Weinberger, changes its tune. It pays less attention to covers
by giving more space to the organ in Shadows and in Morning Rain, and refining
the harshness of the guitar’s riffs in
Castles and Angel Of The Night.
The
power-pop band’s vein gains the upper hand in their third LP Adventures In
Mutation (September Gurls, 1995) and it comes out on
top with the single Paradise (September Gurls, 1994).
The Surf
Trio, for their part, renewed with Shook Outta Shape
(1993…nota del
traduttore: unica fonte e’ September Gurls, 1994)
and Curse Of The Surf Trio (Pin Up, 1995).
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Ron Kleim (canto) e Pete Weinberger (chitarra) suonavano a Eugene (Oregon)
nei Surf Trio, titolari dell'EP Surf Trio (Moxie, 1985), dell'album
Almost Summer (Voxx, 1986), del
mini-album Safari In A Living Graveyard (Moxie, 1987) e di diversi
singoli.
Kleim,
Steve Frothingham e Jayson Breeton
formarono poi i Marble Orchard, che presto pubblicarono
il singolo Something Happens (Estrus, 1990) si affiancarono
ai Miracle Workers fra gli eroi locali del
garage-rock.
Il loro Savage Sleep (Estrus, 1991), con
Weinberger alla chitarra,
e' una perfetta rievocazione di
quegli anni gloriosi, partendo da una Please Come Down che scimmiotta
Born To Be Wild a una rovente Girl With No Name,
passando per il brioso country-rock di Love's Just Begun
e l'hardrock vibrante di You're Never Gonna Hold Me.
Le cover rubano pero` lo show ai brani originali.
Nulla che gli Original Sins non avessero gia' fatto,
e fatto meglio.
Su singoli e compilation escono
Go Now, No Way Home, Munsters Theme, Nova '69, The
Rise,
It's My Time (Estrus, 1992).
Agent Invisible (September Gurls, 1993), senza Weinberger,
cambia marcia, relegando le cover in secondo piano,
lasciando l'organo in bella vista su Shadows e Morning Rain e limando
le asprezze delle chitarre nei ritornelli di Castles e Angel of The Night.
La vena power-pop del gruppo prende il sopravvento sul terzo
Adventures In Mutation (September Gurls, 1995) e trionfa con il singolo
Paradise (September Gurls, 1994).
Il Surf Trio dal canto suo e` resuscitato con
Shook Outta Shape (1993) e
Curse (Pin Up, 1995).
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