Grand jury selection for best one-sided 12" record produced in North Carolina's mid '90s, Eagle Bravo wrote potent, noisy rock as top shelf as Ritz Crackers or Ritz Carlton. The quartet followed Rights Reserved (three members shared) and penned titles as affecting as "Radar Detector Detector Detector."Here's the original UBF post from 200(6?). Not sure what I was thinking with some of it:
Not to sound geocentric, but here's more to pile on the "can't beat the Carolinas in the 1990s" case. Sad the '90s are through and music ain't the same, but along with Cornelius, Assfactor 4, Salvo Rain, Rights Reserved, the Dart 360 and Resol, Eagle Bravo are among the many more fueling an ever-burning bonfire of erstwhile super rock, and it's warm as it's ever been; arguably moreso since today's standards are pretty much clad in cutesyness and neon legwarmers, which is just darn gross and not a bit funny.
Anyway--Eagle Bravo. Three members overlapped with another band whose name seems to have been thrown around a lot lately: Rights Reserved, who were loud with some of the period's best 2.5 minute tunes in the bin with those mentioned up top, but didn't have the raw or rasp they saved for Eagle Bravo, who I think I've always liked a little bit better. Actually, they could very well be second place to Cornelius as my fave of the day's N.C. bands.
Eagle Bravo's posthumous, one-sided 12" blows much away. It's clangy and blasty and has unclipped guitar strings dashing out its headstock all dripping in Minwax.
Here you are.
TITLE: s/t (8 Three Dimension Full Stereo Songs)
LABEL: Gridsector
YEAR: 1997 or '98, I can't remember
TRACKS:
Radar Detector Detector Detector / Iron Rod Vs. The Chevy / Summa' Jams / 35, 45, Whatever / You Said It, Chairman / Robotman / Today Is Broken / Louse
Ah - what a treat to find bb back in the saddle and UBF plugged in again!
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