Forty-Fives (the) - Get it Together

Name:(the) Forty Fives
Album: Get It Together
Year: 2000
Style: Garage, Psych, Detroit Rock
Similar Bands: MC5, Who, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Hives, Makers,  Revern Horton Heat, Flaming Sideburns, Electric Six, Realistics, 
"One-Word" Review: Energetic Western Psych Garage Rock 
Based Out Of: Atlanta, GA
Label: Ng Records, Artemis Records

Cover, Back, Case Back

Liner Notes, Inner Tray, CD

Get It Together (2000)

1. Get Out 3:36
2. Without Love 2:28
3. More Than Ever 2:07
4. Drive All Night 3:25
5. Undercover Man 3:12
6. Drinkin' With No. 3 2:50
7. King of Mexico 1:53
8. Get It Together 3:18
9. All Now 3:13
10. Anytime at All 2:03
11. Ain't That Lovin' You 2:52 (Jimmy Reed cover)
12. Don't Wanna Be the One 3:10
13. When You least Expect It 3:32

Album Rating (1-10): 7.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Bryan G Malone - Guitar, Vox (The Pinx, Bad Spell, The Coathangers)
• Mark McMurtry - Bass, Vox (Every Mother's Nightmare)
• Adam Renshaw - Drums, Vox (Anna Kramer & The Lost Cause, Inverted Nipples, Dirtbombs, Dan Sartain, Black to Comm)
• Trey Tidwell - Organ (Myssouri)
• Matt Chiaravalle - Recording, Mixing, Slide Guitar
• Phil Painson - Asst Mixing
• Greg Calbi - Mastering
• Frank Mullen - Inner Photo
• Robert C Lee - Artwork

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but i feel like there have been a billion bands like them...so i'm guessing they sound like something between the Old 97's and Hives / Electric Six. Part of the retro rock scene, with one foot in oldies garage rock and one foot in high energy sweaty Mooney Suzuki style rock.

Album Review: The album is a fine balance of garage guitar wankery and psych revival organ with a little bluesy western vibe thrown in. The presentation is not in your face, but presents its case as here if you want it. They take power pop and spin it through a 50's greaser lense to make their own style of Detroit Rock, just down in Atlanta. The only song that doesn't quite fit the mold they've created is "King of Mexico," which is a simple & playful track in a campy, humorous way, reminding me of Gringo Star.

With three albums to their credit between 1999 - 2004, the band started out in 1998 as a three piece, and brought in Tidwell & his Hammond organ out of the audience from one of their early shows. It quickly became an important part of their sound, which feels duely dated- in a good way- as both a 2000's gritty rock revival, and as an 1960's garage psych outfit.

Stand Out Track: King of Mexico, Anytime At All

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