Crash Kelly  - 'Electric Satisfaction'
                                                                                                                                    Released through Liquor and Poker Music in 2006
THE BAND:
Sean Kelly - lead/backing vocals, lead & rhythm guitars
Allister Thompson - rhythm & lead guitar, backing vocals
Jordan Michael Stewart - bass guitar, backing vocals
Kevin Taylor - drums & percussion


TRACK FRAGMENTS:
1.) "Hang Out Where You Matter" -The intro to this track opens with a small drum fill.  The main musical intro section consisted of a very cool eighties style minor twin lead guitar solo.  Underneath the twin guitar solo the rhythm guitar plays a very simple rhythm riff.  The lead vocal lines of the verses reminded me of Lizzie Gray of London.  It is very hard to tell but it sounds like Sean used a small vocal effect on the vocal lines of the verses.  After each vocal line of the chorus there is a small lead guitar solo break.  The band kept the verses and choruses very simply structured with eighties style hooks.  The highlight of this track had too be the twin lead guitar solo.
2.) "Ride The Wire" - The intro to the track consists of a tom-tom/snare drum rhythm.  The main musical intro has a very cool rhythm guitar arrangement.  In between the rhythm guitar arrangement are little lead vocal accents.  These lead vocal accents really sets the mood of the song.  The lead vocal lines of the verses were done with a vocal effect.  For the pre-chorus Sean changes the lead vocal arrangement just enough to set the pre-chorus apart from the verse.  The choruses of the song are very laid back with catchy backing vocal hooks.  At times the way the production was during the lead guitar solo section causes the lead guitar solo to be a little over shadowed.
3.) "Turn It Around" -There is a small minor lead guitar solo over the music intro of this track.  The drum rhythm of the pre-verse was done with the snare instead of the hi-hat.  There was not only a musical change for the verse but also a vocal change.  For the pre-chorus the band used the same musical arrangement as the pre-verse.  Much like the rest of the tracks on this release the choruses have huge eighties style hooks.  After the first chorus there was a very simple rhythm guitar change that runs underneath the small guitar solo.  After the lead guitar solo there is a small breakdown section.
4.) "33 On The Charts" - The opening bass slide underneath the rhythm guitar riffs of this intro section gives the song a early seventies Kiss feel.  The lead vocal lines and lyrical arrangements of the verses have a seventies feel to them.  Underneath the second verse there is a small keyboard arrangement.  Here is my main problem with this track, up until the breakdown section there is absolutely no distinction between verse and chorus.  And that kind of sucks cause musically the track has an older Ace Frehley sound to it and would have been very cool. 
5.) "Two Year Runaround" - This track opens with a chorus instead of a intro section.  In between the vocal lines and musical arrangement there is a small hand clap.  This hand clap was used to fill in a lot emptiness since there is no guitar section.  There is a small backing harmony vocal arrangement underneath the lead vocal lines of the verses.  In between the lead vocal lines of the verses there are small lead guitar riffs.  The choruses of the song gives the song a seventies pop feel.  Compared to the rest of the track on this release this song is kind of strange.
6.) "Count On Me, Count On You" - This track opens with a very cool lead guitar lick over the top of a strange sounding musical arrangement.  There is a very abstract keyboard or guitar arrangement underneath the lead vocal lines of the verses.  The choruses were influenced by the eighties band The Smithereans.  The keyboard arrangement of the verses though it works causes the verse not to fit with the chorus. 
7.) "She Put The Shock (In My Rock 'n' Roll)" - This track opens with a heavy metal/blues rhythm guitar riff.  The small main intro section had a very laid back feel to it.  The verses had a Seventies British pop feel to it.  All -in-all this track was a huge seventies flash back.  If you were into Sweets popular stuff them you will really get off on this track.
8.) "Cut Out Your Tongue" - This track opens with a rhythm guitar riff.  The drum patterns of the main intro gives the intro a very intense rock feel.  The vocal lines of the verse gives the song a seventies feel.  The choruses are very similar to the stuff The Smithereans done in the eighties.  One of the highlights of the chorus was in inclusion of a acoustic guitar arrangement.  After the second chorus there is a drastic musical change were the band really shows the song down.     
9.) "Rock And Roll Disasters (On The Radio)" - There is a minor lead guitar solo over the top of this intro section.  The vocal lines of the verses have a almost pop feel.  The choruses of this song were very laid back.  All-in-all this track was more of a CD filler. 
10.) "Cracked And Faded" - There is a tom-tom fill before going into a very laid back musical blues arrangement of this intro.  At the tail end of the intro there is a minor twin lead guitar solo.  The verses and choruses of this track are very laid back keeping the blues feel.  The highlight of the song was by far the underlining acoustic guitar arrangement.  The guitar solo had a very cool feel to it.  This is one of those tracks that would really grow on you after listening to it several times.  At times the musical arrangement and feel has a Enuff 'z' Nuff feel to it. 
11.) "You're A Drag When Your High" - This track has a very seventies glam feel to it.
12.) "Cold Ethyl" (bonus track) - Cover of the Alice Cooper classic.


    While most of my peers were influenced musically by such artists as; Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Kiss.  I was being influenced by T-Rex and the Sweet.  In fact I still to this day argue the point that it was Andy Scott of Sweet that invented finger-tapping instead of Edward Van Halen.  Much like my influences the songs on Crash Kelly's 'Electric Satisfaction' are mainly influenced by the same artists.  If you are into seventies glam, or, the eighties heavy metal glam scene then 'Electric Satisfaction' is the CD for you!