Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2025 August 06 • Wednesday

Surf music always went along with hot rod music. Sooner or later someone was going to do something about hot rods of the sea. Here are The Hornets with Big Drag Boats USA!

I couldn't find a lot of information about this, but apparently it's a Jerry Cole project. The guitar sound is great, as are most of the numbers.

Some of it is a little too goofy and almost all of it is marred by overuse of saxophone. Both the tone and the lines played give it an unwelcome cartoonish effect, when otherwise this could be a tough and tight instro rock album.

It's still worth listening to, and some of these songs deserve to be played by bands today.