Knows his music is all right. He knows because he's got razor sharp hooks, air-tight choruses, and the 'Big Beat.' Though his former band wasn't the next (both were managed by Bill Aucoin), plays with the big boys right out of the gate on his first solo; deftly welds heavy licks to hard funk on a level with world-dominators. Both beatboxes and muscle cars blasted 'You Should Be High, Love' and 'Big Beat.' But the artist's gentle melodic touch always surprises.

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Underneath the suburban Zep sludge pops street Raspberries bubblegum. Doesn't fake sympathy for the working class; he wants to be rich and he wants young girls. On and its near-perfect follow-up, he knows what he wants and he knows how to get it.