Bad Wizard - Free and Easy

(Tee Pee) www.teepeerecords.com

Are all Bad Wizards Electric? Are all Purple Wizards Bad? And could Blackie Lawless really hang with Swedish power-soul action rockers the Flaming Sideburns? 'Free and Easy' presents plenty of puzzling evidence in it's thick, sex drenched grooves, as New York City's Bad Wizard take a ridiculous band name and the over-used Mc5 meets Motown junk shtick and turn it into the greatest 8 track tape that never existed. Plenty of formerly swagger- free stoner rock bands have taken to shaking their tambourines and swiveling their hips these days like afro wearing action heroes with authority problems, but no one's taken it to the streets with the kind of sleazy snake appeal that Bad Wizard display like fist sized gold medallions on this album. They are, quite simply, the grooviest of the groovy. "Free and Easy" might be a little too super real for the citizens of these plastic times, but I'm pretty sure they didn't make it for the squares anyway. High fives, VD, mescaline and 'Nixon Now' buttons all around, brothers and sisters. Bad Wizard are 'Nam chic if we actually won the war.