Bang Tango Ain't No Jive...Live! [EP] [Digipak]

Bang Tango: Joe Leste (vocals); Mark Knight, Kyle Stevens (guitars); Kyle Kyle (bass); Tigg Ketler (drums).

Background vocals: Elisa Cooks, Jennifer Parsignault.

Engineers: Mark Dearnley, Guy Charbonneau.

Recorded at Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, California and The Marquee, Westminster, California.

All songs written by Bang Tango except "Twentieth Century Boy" (Marc Bolan).

Personnel: Jennifer Parsignault, Joe Lest‚, Elisa Cooks (vocals); Mark Knight , Kyle Stevens (guitar); Tigg Ketler (drums).

Audio Mixer: Mark Dearnley.

Recording information: Sound City Studios, Van Nuys, CA; The Marquee, Westminster, CA.

Photographer: Peter Dokus.

Ain't No Jive ... Live! is a shrewd move; the five-piece thrives with an audience to play off. Dual-guitar engines squeal on the tight turns of "Dancin' On Coals"; then are reined in for a crunchy-riff cover of T-Rex's "20th Century Boy." Joe Leste's vocals lacerate "Someone Like You" and "Attack Of Life," generating enough electricity to compensate for the occasional off-key note. The latter is a smoldering, 8-minute curtain-closer that borrows from Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold." ~ Roch Parisien