Fans of the Doors and the Animals will also get a kick out of Calliope's self-titled debut album, a rollicking collection of retrofitted psychedelic blues songs. Recorded September of 2012 under the ears of Milwaukee rock veteran Mike Hoffman, Calliope set the band up in a log cabin in the northern woods of Wisconsin and did most of the recording live. Together with Victor Buell IV on guitar, John Larkin on Bass and Eric Gornoll on drums, they played as a band, capturing the raw power of their live performances. I saw them for the first time at Yield a few weeks back and was stupefied. They play so tight but also were able to keep the music loose, never skipping a beat and pushing the performance straight through to doomsday. There is an influence of Blue Cheer, The Sonics, Frank Zappa, The Pretty Things, The Doors, Alice Cooper or any of the more grandiose garage or psychedelic Rock and Roll groups of the late 60’s and early 70’s giving Ca...