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Brilliant Classic, 3 April 2006 Reviewer: "wildsurfer57"
I first bought this album in the seventies when it first came out on vinyl. I cannot overestimate the brilliance of it. The sound is ageless, the songs superb and the guitar playing of Graham Douglas is breathtaking. What a difference he makes to the songs. This is a fast paced, pulse racing album of incredibly powerful songs jam packed full of powerful guitar riffs by Douglas. This guy is so good. I am a guitar player and Douglas makes this album for me. It is a classic and will definitely get your adrenalin racing. Don't bother with their other albums. Yes I listen to Satriani, Vai and all the others, but I would consider this as a guitarists album too because Graham Douglas' fills and solos are perfect.
One of the best USA shows that the Hot Rods played was at a club in Boston - the photo was taken by a girl named Fleumi with whom I swapped pants after the show. Mine were far sweatier than hers!
The Hot Rods were cursed by various members of the Crowley sect after a “sacrilegious” use of this image in the press. This was particularly irritating as one of his precepts was “Do what thou wilst shall be the whole of the law”. Whilst at Brentwood College, my buddy John Power and I had read much about the Golden Dawn and all that - esoteric knowledge was far more interesting than Theory and Practice of Educational Psychology. The other notable thing about this was that various DJs, press hacks and others got confused and thought that the “Rods” was a different band to the “Hot Rods”, or “Eddie and the Hot Rods”. Consequently, we appear frequently as “One Hit Wonders” in lists of trivia. I'll set the record straight here - the Hot Rods had at least six entries in the top fifty, and at least three entries in the top thirty.
This cutting was sent to me by Graham Maaiveld (many thanks, Graham). I never did get to play in the Grateful Dead with Jerry, and I don't remember much about guesting in Juppie's band or the Gypsy Rock Squad. Must have been quite anaethetised in those days! Don't remember having the car nicked either, unless it was borrowed by my brother Stuart.