Search - Wayne Rogers :: All Good Works

The last of the real-life sunshine trippers

Nate Knaebel | Brooklyn, NY | 09/27/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Wayne Rogers is the last of an unquestionably rare breed; truely dedicated to feeding the heads of both me and you, he may be the last guy (mind you a rather freaky lady or two still lingers on) around who can take that guitar and get lost, I mean gone. With his peek success coming via the long lost, and sadly missed, Magic Hour (featuring wife Kate Bigger on guitar and 2/3 of Galaxy 500 keeping time), Wayne Rogers and his merry band of drone mongers have been making beautiful noise going on twenty years. "All Good Works" is one in a series of Wayne's solo projects; every last drop of gorgeous psyche-guitar-pop you hear on this disk was played and recorded by Rogers. Only Wayne can take 3 min and 30 sec of your time and turn it into a mind- bending dream where the sun is always shining:the guitar scorches your brain and forces you see the light. Rogers and cohorts make music for Twisted Village (owned by Rogers and Bigger) where one can find not only other solo releases (take time for "The Seven Arms of the Sun"), but full band projects by the Magic Hour, Crystalized Movements, Vermonster, and the death-defying guitar sledge-hammer that is Major Stars. "Fear not the noise children, for the pandemonium is good for you"."