Reviews    Rickshaw - Down the Road & Still Burning Fuel *The Greatest Kicks of Rickshaw* (Devil Doll Records)
by Chris Barnes

I got sixteen tracks of Rickshaw rock and it feels so fine.

Seriously, I have no idea why these guys don't get the attention the Hellacopters, Glucifer and the Backyard Babies do, because Rickshaw is better than those bands at what they do. And I know that statement is going to get me a least five emails telling me I'm a fucktard and I'm full of shit from die-hard Hellafans, but that's the way I feel. And I'm nothing if not honest. Mostly because I don't have anything else going for me.

Down the Road and Still Burning Fuel is a collection of past Richshaw-ian output, plus a couple of new tunes. It's a great thing to have all this material available here in the U.S. courtesy of Devil Doll Records (what up to Devil Dawg John down the freeway in the LBC. Holler atcha' boy). Rickshaw is no longer resigned to expensive imports, so you can take home their turbocharged fist fight rawk for a nominal price.

Soundwise, Rickshaw is what I think of when I hear the term "Kick ass rock n' roll". Frankly, that particular term is used so friggin' much, it's lost most of it's meaning through desensitization. But Rickshaw define it so I don't feel so much like a douche for using it to describe the Rickshaw-ian experience. It's high powered, fast and crackling with energy - a catalyst to flying fists, spit and bloody noses. Jocke and Bobby Dawn are frontman's frontmen, swaggering, spitting and sneering with that Bon Scott/Mike Ness-on-French-Roast caterwaul. All that attitude in front of all that great rock n' roll.

Great stuff and all in one sexy package.

Purchase Down the Road and Still Burning Fuel at the Hellride Music Super Store

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Visit the Rickshaw website at www.rickshawrockers.com

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Review by Chris Barnes 4/3/03