In 1990 the world lost one of it’s most influential blues guitarists, It should have been Eric Clapton that got on that helicopter after another performance that royally dumped on everything that Cream ever did, but no, it was Stevie Ray Vaughan. Seen by many as the greatest guitarist since Jimi Hendrix this is definitely a career that was cut far too short by tragedy, along with Hendrix Vaughan was the only man to carry the blues torch strong enough to make other musicians of the genre question their ability and ultimately make some give up all together, I wonder if SRV were still alive today would he have done the same to soulless technical wonder Luke Mulholland, one can only hope and dream so.
As a self taught guitarist (my only lesson lasting 10 minutes) I have always detested guitar academies, cloning factories for wannabe Vai’s and Satriani’s the world over who learn the technique as opposed to the feel, Luke Mulholland is currently studying at the Berklee College of Music and it’s pretty obvious when you hear what he’s offering on ‘Further’. The same pentatonic minor solo scales are hammered mercilessly and the standard twelve-bar blues riffs almost beaten to death by the end of this ridiculously un-original album, this guy is cliché-ing so many great bands it’s almost unbelievable. With every generation of music there are always going to be the bands that never made it to the heights of their generations kings, in the 60’s there were hundreds of Beatles clone bands floating around and the 70’s and 80’s were no different with bands like Led Zeppelin and Def Leppard, The Luke Mulholland Band sound pretty much like a band that would have fallen by the wayside at the time of Zeppelins peak in around 75, the kind of band you’ll hear occasionally on a bizarre internet radio station devoted to classic rock.
All in all I guess you could say this is a pretty terrible album, uninspiring, boring as hell and just plain annoying, if you’re inclined towards a bit of standard run of the mill rock and roll then by all means check it out, if The Datsuns were too heavy and the Tokyo Dragons were too shit then this album may just float your boat, otherwise it’s a sinking ship all the way to the end.
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The Luke Mulholland Band - Further
