Genre: Noise Punk

01 Bad Vibrations
02 Night Of The Living Bum
03 Sunrise 1000, Years From Home
04 Dead Soldiers
05 Keep It Real
06 12 Angry Men
07 Spider Wings
08 Give Me Back My Ivory
09 Love Yourself
10 Trash Truck
11 Inside You Man

Listening to Bad Vibrations, the new CD by Mr. Buck Gooter you hear the duality of juxtaposition between Buck’s caterwauling, cacophonous railing; screaming, snarling, gnashing and whatnot; this over some music that is not of the same ilk of the vocals. The tunes are rockin’ brainy, syncopated sprawling with a hint of jazz technique thrown in.

One can’t help thinking to oneself if this is a white-trash parody of trailer park life, a punk-rock free-style or some sort of crypto-intellectualizing with a ciphered message. Whatever the intention, one gets a kind of involuntary headbanging, arm-shaking, foot-stomping reaction from listening to it.

Like the tracks “Keep it Real” or “Dead Soldiers” or maybe even “12 Angry Men”, the Goot brings it on home for those kids who dig the newest of new styles and the most outré rock ‘n’ roll outlets. Anything that will piss off or alienate their parents or older folks – teachers, friends’ parents or any other type of authority figure is what becomes popular among the youth in any generation. This isn’t any new trend, it goes back all the way to the swing sounds and early jazz of the 1920s, when the carefree kids, sons and daughters of stiff, upper crust and uptight adults who were running the world in business and/or politics. Today the stuff of such rebellion and faux-angst constantly gets pushed further and further afield, so as to alienate the senses of the most people over 30 as possible. In this, Buck Gooter is part of that pack. In this too, it’s not about musical virtuosity or poetic lyricism but rather clever tunes that both rattle and under the yelling and ranting, there are words that tether the Goot to the young. In the more subtle, twangy punk-jazz jig drivers, it will appeal not only to punks with bones through their heads but to clever, smart kids that like to let loose after a day of calculus and advanced literature classics classes.

The best part about the Buck Gooter experience is what would transpire in the live shows he puts on. One can imagine going to see one’s favorite band at a cool, dark and cavernous club downtown somewhere and then before the main event, onto the stage comes Buck Gooter and company, wherein they go into a ½ hour to 45 minute set of fast, loose and LOUD songs, one after the other with no breaks in between songs, just cramming as many cuts as they can before they get the hook.