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Too Dumb To Quit by Too Old To Rock
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fave it Progressive Rock | Instrumental Metal
12 tracks | 57 minutes
Released Dec 2002
on TGIF Productions
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:14 Shuffleboard Champs BUY MP3 04:14 Shuffleboard Champs "GIFT MP3" 04:14 Shuffleboard Champs
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:20 Bingo Night At Emily's BUY MP3 04:20 Bingo Night At Emily's "GIFT MP3" 04:20 Bingo Night At Emily's
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 07:47 Arthritic Shredfest BUY MP3 07:47 Arthritic Shredfest "GIFT MP3" 07:47 Arthritic Shredfest
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:08 Dance Of The Coffin Dodgers BUY MP3 05:08 Dance Of The Coffin Dodgers "GIFT MP3" 05:08 Dance Of The Coffin Dodgers
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:03 Pass The Geritol BUY MP3 04:03 Pass The Geritol "GIFT MP3" 04:03 Pass The Geritol
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:10 Second Mortgage Blues BUY MP3 06:10 Second Mortgage Blues "GIFT MP3" 06:10 Second Mortgage Blues
- sample "DOWNLOAD" 04:12 Too Dumb To Quit BUY MP3 04:12 Too Dumb To Quit "GIFT MP3" 04:12 Too Dumb To Quit
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:29 Goodbye Spandex BUY MP3 03:29 Goodbye Spandex "GIFT MP3" 03:29 Goodbye Spandex
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 03:24 Vitamin A BUY MP3 03:24 Vitamin A "GIFT MP3" 03:24 Vitamin A
Too Old To Rock features the guitar mastery of Jim Reindel and Chris Hattingh - the music is all instrumental, mostly in a progressive rock vein, but with a few strange twists and surprises.
Editorial review
Guitarists Jim Reindel and Chris Hattingh collaborate on this recording of electric guitar instrumentals. The influence of top players like Lifeson, Van Halen, Satriani, and Schenker is apparent throughout, but Reindel and Hattingh are usually unique enough in their playing and arranging to put forth their own sound. Opener "Shuffleboard Champs" finds the duo trading solos over a chugging, classic metal bottom end, while the progressive rock-influenced "Dance of the Coffin Dodgers" breaks out the acoustic guitars in support of the electric's leads. While the guitars are obviously the focus here, there is accompaniment from drums and bass. Unfortunately, the drums sound like the electronic variety at various points in the set (the title track; the atmospheric "Bingo Night at Emily's"), and this dulls some of Too Dumb to Quit's edges. Likewise, the nearly eight-minute -- and entirely unaccompanied -- "Arthritic Shredfest" owes too much of a debt to Van Halen's "Eruption," and likely will only be of interest to shred heads. The album does end strongly, however, with the upbeat "Goodbye Spandex" and the slowly building "Vitamin A," which explodes into a cacophony of guitar effects. The song fades out as a riff recalling Journey's "Anytime" repeats into oblivion; it suggests that the completely un-ironic hard rock/prog soloing of Too Dumb to Quit is just continuing on somewhere in the distance, for as long as the power supply and guitar strings hold out. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Too Old To Rock is the brainchild of guitarists Jim Reindel and Chris Hattingh. The band was formed in 2002 to showcase Jim and Chris's formidable compositional skills and exceptional guitar playing.
Their debut CD "Too Dumb To Quit" is an all-instrumental, 12-song album which is mostly in a progressive rock vein, but which also touches upon metal, shred, jazz fusion, mainstream rock, psychedelic rock, exotic eastern music and acoustic balladry. The one constant is the guitar wizardry weaving its way into each and every track on the album.