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MEET MACH 5 REVIEWS

Reviewer: Lord Rutledge, Now Wave Magazine Online

Backed by a killer rhythm section (Jeff Thomas on bass and Jimmy Birmingham of the Real Kids on drums), Bell and Stroy have joined forces for one reason and one reason only: to rock!!!

Like all good rock albums, Meet Mach 5 is strong all the way through and surprisingly high on variety. "Get It Up" is a fitting title for the opening track, because it would have given me an instant hard-on if I'd heard it back in junior high. It has almost the same effect now, except I have to pop a Levitra one hour prior. It rocks hard and heavy but doesn't fall short on melody - this one's for fans of '90s Euro rock, '70s glam rock, and everything in between. Elsewhere, the band tries its hand at bluesy Aerosmith raunch ("Deadly Combination"), pure pop (the Kristy MacColl/Tracy Ullman hit "They Don't Know"), Slade/New York Dolls style glitter-boogie ("25 Hours A Day"), Dictators-ish sing-along rawk (the rightfully mean-spirited "Quincy Girl"), and certifiably anthemic rock n' roll ("Kenmore Square", a track highly reminiscent of The johnnies). And although the cover material here is formidable (the band takes a respectable stab at "Under My Wheels" and rocks out the old
Mose Allison number "If You're Goin' To The City"), the originals are far more interesting. And that's a really good sign. (11/ 21/ 05)

Reviewer: Skid, Sleaze Roxx

The artwork has a real retro feel and the music itself is a step back in time to the days of seventies garage rock. I got a kick out of hearing a rough rock version of Tracey Ullman's top 10 bubblegum pop hit "They Don't Know" and the boys completely nail Alice Cooper's "Under My Wheels" - which isn't surprising considering this entire release is like a super-charged version of early Cooper Motor City metal. As for the original material, "Get It Up" and "Through To You" are cool straight-ahead rockers. "25 Hours A Day" has a Rolling Stones swagger about it and "Quincy Girl" captures the pissed-off attitude of the punks.

The songs on Meet Mach 5 are short, in your face and to the point - nothing fancy or slick is to be found. Just like the formative years of hard rock, Mach 5 has left the dirt and grime (and even encourage it) in an effort to capture the raw energy of the music...and it works. (12/05).

Dee and Jeff rip into "25 Hours A Day."
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Reviewer: Noodles Romanov, Boston Groupie News

MACH 5 HAS ARRIVED!

There is so much to say about this CD, I could spew on for days. But I don't want any of you to become derelict in your duties because of me, so I will get right to it.

I keep listening to this CD over and over, for one simple reason. It ROCKS!

Before gettin into the subject of talented musicians, I feel compelled to credit Producer Richard Marr and the Galaxy Park Studios. I take my ski mask off to them, cause the sound on this CD is nothing short of rabid! The guitar sound... man, I think it was developed in some secret lab at Los Alamos. Close your eyes and you can imagine the orange glow of tubes from 100 angry Marshall stacks, straining to record a guitar sound that will tear your headphones into tiny bits. The mix is just the way I like it - the guitars are way up, and the vocal is ever so slightly buried. In my humble opinion, this is the way a genuine rock CD should be mixed, cause it sounds like a band, instead of a singer with a band behind him. If you have to struggle even just a little bit to hear the vocals, you are more likely to pay attention to them. Maybe even pick up some of the smart, clever, and sometimes funny lyrics that are strewn about these tunes.

A lengthy treatise could be written just about the cover of this CD, but I will address one salient feature: "America's Newest Hitmakers!" blares the headline in living black and white. Hmmm. It may not be entirely serious, but still a bold claim, even for a band consisting of highly accomplished veteran rockers, led by a Boston rock icon. I am pleased to announce that, like a full FedEx truck plunging off a cliff, these guys deliver - hard! There are three great cover tunes on this CD, but it's the original compositions that I want to address, because they are the ones that really make you want to jump up and dance around your puny dorm room (apartment? tent? cell?) in a 70s style hard-rock induced spastic frenzy. After the first tune, "Get It Up", had finished, I thought "Holy ringing ears... they put the best song on first! The rest is gonna suck by comparison". Not so, dear rockers. The hits continue. As each original tune finished, I started thinkin "the next one can't
possibly be better"... but it is. My personal favorites are "Through To You", "Quincy Girl" ( a tune that I DEFY you not to sing along with in the car..."Shut your pie-hole, Quincy girl!"), and a song penned from the heart called "Kenmore Square", a lament about the long-gone Kenmore Square of rock legend history.

This CD has enough hooks, harmony vocals, and three-chord nastiness to make anyone who craves some real rock injections to be utterly satisfied. Power drummer Jimmy Birmingham, twelve-string bassist Jeff Thomas, thrash guitarist Dee "Wild Man of Borneo" Stroy and beltsander-voiced Mach Bell have created a band that has more chemistry than MIT.

For anyone who thinks Mach reached his musical pinnacle with Thundertrain or Joe Perry, I've got front-page news for you. He's still climbing.

MEET MACH 5 is a CD that grabs you by the neck, shakes you, and says "Shut off the damn radio!"

Play it often, and play it loud! (January 20, 2006)

Reviewer: Metroland Albany

"Meet Mach 5, is a darn fine slice of skanky, Boston-style garage rock."

Reviewer: Brian Mosher, The Noise

"Rock is back! Front man Mach Bell has hand selected exactly the musicians that best suit his style, and they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Most notable is the one and only Dee Stroy on lead six-string. Dee can play anything, as long as its rock. He can sound like Johnny Thunders or Angus Young, but he always sounds like himself. And lead singer/ ringleader Bell is a raspy voiced veteran who knows how to get the most out of what hes got. Hes been at this since the mid-70s, and has seen a lot of trends and fads come and go. But the bottom line is always does it rock? For Mach 5, the answer is a thunderous YES." (12/05)

Reviewer: Rikki Rampage, ROCKNROLLUNIVERSE.com

"Mach 5 is a true winner when it comes to High-Energy Raunch N Roll. This cd is packed full of foot stomping fist waving tunes to drive your neighbors crazy!" (11/05)

Reviewer: Miss Lyn, Boston Groupie News

.. Mach and Dee Stroy wrote a paean to Kenmore Square that really hits home. The lyrics are spot on.. the tune is catchy and the chorus will have you waving good-bye to the place that will not leave our memories." (11/05)

When visiting Massachusetts be sure to see the majestic Mach 5 Rock on Route 1A.

Reviewer - Slam Rocks Party Zine (Italy)

Torna alla carica uno dei migliori frontman che il Rock'n'Roll abbia mai avuto, nonché uno dei miei preferiti in assoluto, Mr. "Cowboy" Mach Bell, e lo fa alla grande chiamando a se tre dei migliori elementi della scena di Boston (l'ex Real Kids Jimmy Birmingham, batteria - l'ex Sugabomb e The Johnnies Dee Stroy, chitarra - Jeff Thomas, basso) per dar vita ai Mach 5, sorta di "All-Star band" che, senza tanti fronzoli, prende allegramente a calci in culo gran parte delle bands in circolazione da un po' di tempo a questa parte.

La cosa non sorprenderà di certo chi conosce le gesta dei Thundertrain, attivi per un'estemporanea reunion fino all'anno scorso ed apparentemente archiviati, così come non sorprenderà chi ha avuto il piacere di ascoltare i The Johnnies del chitarrista Dee Stroy, axeman veramente dotato e capace di sfornare riffs "assassini" in ogni brano. La parola chiave per definire i 4 ragazzacci è sempre e solo una: Attitudine! Ne hanno da vendere ed hanno scelto il mio modo preferito per farlo capire chiaramente: non è Metal pur avendone la potenza ed a tratti (perché no) la perizia tecnica, non è Punk ma ha la carica oltraggiosa, la veemenza e l'urgenza elementare di quei tre benedetti accordi, non è Garage ma ne possiede genuinità e spirito (la cover del Cd la dice lunga). si signori, è ancora e "solo" grande, abrasivo, fottuto Rock'n'Roll!

Dieci pezzi per altrettanti "sganassoni" dritti dritti sui vostri brutti ceffi, uno dietro l'altro senza darvi respiro, ma - e qui si sentono qualità, capacità ed esperienza - senza perdere di vista melodia e refrain, che in alcuni brani è assolutamente vincente. Caldo e roccioso Hard'n'Roll nell'opener "Get It Up" ed in "Kandyland"; torbido Blues impreziosito da una lancinante e sofferta armonica in "Deadly Combination", "Through To You" è selvaggia quanto basta ma con un refrain che non se ne va più dalla zucca, "Quincy Girl" è puro e sboccato N.Y. Sound, tra Dictators e Ramones, gran pezzo ed altro refrain azzeccato. Tre le cover in scaletta: il bel power pop "They Don't Know" (Kirsty McColl), il graffiante Blues urbano "If You're Goin' To The City" (Mose Allison) ed una versione "da paura" di "Under My Wheels" (A. Cooper), infine è grande boogie/glam in "25 Hours A Day", sospeso fra Slade e N.Y.Dolls, ed hard-punk di classe nella conclusiva ed anthemica "Kenmore Square".

"Siamo stati tutti pesantemente influenzati dalle canzoni più dure e rockeggianti dei fifties, sixties, seventies ed eighties. Non sono certo di cosa sia successo al Rock nei nineties." Parole sante, Cowboy, e meno male che all'alba del 2006 esiste ancora gente col fuoco dentro come te. Hell Tonite! Buy it or Die!

Gaetano Fezza (January 20, 2006)

Italian Mach 5 review (above) translated:

One of the best frontmen that rock'n'roll has ever had (and definitely one of my alltime faves), mr. "cowboy" mach bell, is back! and he's back for good recruiting 3 of the greatest players out of the boston area (ex Real Kids Jimmy Birmingham, drums - ex Sugabomb and The Johnnies Dee Stroy, guitars - Jeff Thomas, bass) bringing to life mach5, sorta all-star band perfectly able to kick most of todays' bands' asses.

fans of thundertrain (who have officially disbanded except for last year's reunion) won't be taken by surprise. same thing for those who enjoyed the johnnies and dee stroy's killer riffing. keyword to to define the 4 bad boys can be only one: attitude! they've got tons of it and they've just chosen the best way to show it clearly: it's not metal even though it carries the power and sometimes (why not) the technical skills. it's not punk but it has the outrageous force, the vehemence and the basic urge of those damn 3 chords. it's not garage but the genuinity and spirit is in it (the cover song tells it all)... yessirs, it's again "just" fuckin' rock'n'roll!

10 songs, 10 direct hits on your ugly faces. one by one without any break but (and this is where you can feel their musicianship and experience) without losing ground with melody and catchiness which, in some tracks, are a standout point. warm and massive hard'n'roll in the opener "get it up" and in "kandyland". torrid blues, turned into a jewel by a suffering and heartfelt harp in "deadly combination". through to you", a pretty wild tune a but with a refrain that you won't find easy to get outta yer heads. "quincygirl" is pure and raw ny sound halfway between dictators and ramones, great song, killer chorus! three covers here: awesome power pop in "They Don't Know" (Kristy McColl), catchy urban blues in "If You're Goin' To The City"(Mose Allison), an excellent version of"Under My Wheels" (A. Cooper), then a great boogie glam in "25 hours a day", close to ny dolls and slade. classy hard punk at the end with the anthemic "kenmore square".

"we've been all heavily influenced by the hardest rocking songs from the fifties, sixties, seventies ed eighties. i'm not sure of what happened to rock music during the 90s..." holy words, Cowboy, thank god that there's still someone with a fire inside like you in 2006..hell Tonite! Buy it or Die!

Gaetano Fezza

Mach shakes his rattle with the Mach 5 Jugband.
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