Meet The Meatbats

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Past say, oh, the early to mid-'80, whenever you heard the phrase "instrumental rock music," it usually meant a group of heavy metallists shredding away on their respective instruments (usually with guitar gymnastics at the forefront). In other word, showing off your chops seemed to win out over the importance of songwriting time and time again. But by the time of the debut album by Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbat, 2009's Meet the Meatbat, this is thankfully no longer the case. In fact, the group specifically turns the clock back to the '70, when instrumental rock music was based in funk and fusion styles (Jeff Beck's Wired, Return to Forever's Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy, Billy Cobham's Spectrum, etc.). Some mighty fine fusion-y grooves can be detected throughout Meet the Meatbats (and they're very authentic-sounding) -- especially such ditties as Battle for Ventura Boulevard, Death Match, and Need Strange. Smith has long been considered one of rock's top drummer, and the debut album by his Bombastic Meatbats will only strengthen his standing. Credits Jono Brown -- Producer, Engineer, Mixing Kevin Chown -- Ba, Composer Jim Ervin -- Executive Producer Jeff Kollman -- Guitar, Composer Kevin McCourt -- A&R Rebecca Roe -- Layout Design Ed Roth -- Piano, Composer, Clavinet, Fender Rhode, Hammond B3 Chad Smith -- Percussion, Composer, Drums Rande Volpert -- Executive Producer .

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