Kick Out the Hams: Wild Savages' "Queen Bee" video

MUSIC REVIEW

Do you remember the days before the smoking ban when you'd leave a concert smelling of stale cigarettes and cheap beer, and the stench would permeate your rusted-out car on the late-night ride home, lingering in your nose the next morning?

Wild Savages are the soundtrack for that drive.

The Ann Arbor trio plays bluesy proto-metal that would not have been out of place on WRIF in 1980. Think of Wild Savages as part of the 1970s Black Sabbath, Foghat, and Nazareth lineage that has produced contemporary bands like Red Fang, Saviours, and The Sword.

"Queen Bee" is the first single off the band's second album, Stagefright, which is being feted with a free record-release concert at The Blind Pig on Saturday, Dec. 16. Wild Savages goof around in the video by mugging for the camera like 1980s hair-metal bands, shotgunning beers, and playing bass on the toilet.

In other words, it's totally great.


Christopher Porter is a library technician and the editor of Pulp.


Wild Savages play a free record-release show on Saturday, Dec. 16 at The Blind Pig, 208 S. First St., Ann Arbor. Mexican Knives and Grand Mammoth open, with the metal DJ crew Heavy and Beyond making sure the club stays loud the whole night. Visit facebook.com/wildsavages for more info or wildsavages.bandcamp.com to hear the band's previous releases.