Fuzz Fest is a reissue of a 1996 album by Davie Allan and the Arrows that added two other singles, “Open Throttle” and “Chopper” (plus alternative versions of both songs). Cub Koda writing for Allmusic says of this album: “Davie Allan’s playing has scarcely changed over the intervening decades, his work in various low-rent biker film soundtracks showing how he understands the form possibly better than anyone else. . . . If you’re looking for fuzz and lots of it, you came to the right place.”
I first heard one of the songs on the second album by the Silencers, Cyclerific Sounds, “Mr. Fruity Pants” on the 2-CD compilation album (released for the 25th anniversary of Bomp! Records in 1999), Straight Outta Burbank; there is also a track by Davie Allan and the Arrows on the compilation album called “Open Throttle” (from Fuzz Fest).
(December 2014)
