DogState

DogState a heavy rock band from London in England is the four piece line-up of Rich Garcia (Vocals), Paul Garcia (Bass), Wayne Casserly (Drums) and Rich Groom (Guitar).

DogState

DogState

Heavy Rock as the regular reader that you are and Tim, as you well know are an anathema, so why am I suggesting you take a moment to consider this?  - I like DogState – this is what Heavy Rock should have stayed with back in the ’70s before wandering off to their week-long guitar breaks and drum solos. This is superbly focused material, sure they let the guitar do it’s thing, but not before sharply pulling it up an a leash and saying – hey this is a song not a fourteen part novel. I know there are old contacts from School who take the time to break their day to see the site and as we are all in our late 40′s I hope that statement doesn’t bring on too many coronaries as they recall my snarl and scorn at the latest umpteen part nonsense orchestration which emanated across the Dorms as I fixated on 3 minutes of raw Punk anger.

So why the difference in what DogState gets up to? It is high energy rock ‘n’ roll with no pretension. Highly capable guitar playing, engaging bass and smart drumming, the necessary throaty vocal and a lead singer who passes a scorn on the ordinariness of life, all delivered typically within five minutes of raucous energy.

This video I particularly enjoy as at Garcia hurls CDs out to the audience and evidently the Sound Engineer at the back of the room is frantically waves his arms around over health and safety issues, to which – once the CDs are distributed – a contemptuous and theatrical – oh sorry I didn’t see you – raised arm of apology appears.

The sound on the video isn’t good, so just watch the first 30 seconds and this it followed by a listenable audio of nine songs within 50 minutes – good stuff.

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