BB Blackdog
The Fourth band of the night was Derby based three-piece BB Blackdog. Their sound is an innovative take on Rock mixing elements of Classic, Alt, Prog and Psychedelica for an interesting and original direction that really works for them. Dale’s got an excellent, distinctive voice that both compliments and defines their sound, consistently strong across a range of atmospheric tracks it made for an excellent set that went down well with the Saturday night crowd.
Surface Unsigned
Surfaceunsigned .co.uk

BB BlackDog Music News review 9 Nov 2008
What do you get if you cross two bass players with drums and a groove machine, two Germans dudes and an Englishman? Well BB Dog decided to put it to the test and the answer is a bloody brilliant sound.
Dirty, grungey rock at its best. Lead singer Dale Rowles’ voice is bluesy and weathered and all the better for it. The absence of guitars surprisingly does nothing to diminish the sound. The bass is creative and the drum line powerful.
Tortured blues rock is alive and well.
Who needs guitars anyway?!.
reviewer: Christine Toner
www.music-news.com

Best Band
Voted best sleeze rock band in the 2007 Totalrock awards
Totalrock.com

Kiel News, 6 February 2008
Highly Vital Rock ’n’ Roll Fossil
Kiel – They met each other at a party. Since then, they have been best of friends despite their eclectic musical backgrounds in bands including Incubator, SuperKraut. In the first 43 days after the band was established, BBBlackDog recorded 44 Songs and their first CD (No. One) in a Lubeck recording studio. Tonight, the last hope of the dark and heavy 70’s blues rock is playing in the Palenke club in Kiel.
The Derbyshire/Lubeck connection is convincing from the get-go with authentic songs that fire up the audience in the packed pub. Two basses plus drums – that’s nothing new and no reason to get delirious. But BBBlackDog does everything right: Rowles’ voice sounds as if Jack Bruce sang the Cream albums through a beer can – influences from Black Sabbath, The Edgar Broughton Band, and Stoner Rock in general are unmistakable.
Rowles scrubs across the four strings of his Rickenbacker bass with a bottleneck; tonight isn’t the first time since Motörhead that the brand Rickenbacker has had to sacrifice itself for such guitar-like chordal vulgarity. BBBlackDog, the song that gave the band its name, is delivered with a straight groove. It is, however, the number about Rowles’ ex-wife I’ve Had My Fill with its repetitive bass harmonies, its exorbitantly integrated shuffle beats, and its alternating dynamics that captures the hearts of the 70’s rock fans. Simultaneously, Rowles also drags the sound through the Wah-wah pedal while the dark swampy foundation is provided by Stefan Becker’s contribution on four strings and the incredibly powerful drum line is produced by Axel Boldt. A groove machine pulls the music forward like a stubborn mule its cart.
After their mini-tour leading them through the English county of Sheffield in December and January, BBBlackDog is incredibly in-tuned to one another, which can also be attributed to the professional backgrounds of all members. A rock ‘n’ roll fossil that is being brought back to life in a spectacular way – and is a true insider tip!
(translated from German)

Guestlist 3 track review
Love
A tight American drum sound scurries busily through this track, and punctuates the lazy mid Atlantic vocals. The band boasts
the preference for two bass guitars and no six string, as a muso myself I’m sceptical about this claim, but will waive it just this once as the bass featured is inventive and equally busy as its percussive counterpart. If the album sleeve cited Frank Zappa as a contributor, it would not come as any surprise. However, the veteran rocker is absent from the line up, and BB Blackdog fare well without his intervention. With Bootsy Collins bass lines
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and chopping guitar shapes, the track motors down a long open highway, and has you air drumming to its jazz funk fusion beat.
Women
For those who wondered what The Doors would of gone on to create, “Women” is a good theory, for that matter Hawkwind would also be applicable. Part black metal, part brooding love song, the track staggers, and darkly waltzes to its bassy feedback fade. Gorgeously gothic, and sung with equal sinister relish, BB Blackdog avoid being shoe horned into a narrow genre, and place their strength in producing a spectrum of competent and well written tracks. The breadth of the bands musical style is equitable to the experience of its band members. As central components to significant bands and albums, BB Blackdog are an encyclopaedia of music business knowledge in one creative unit.
Low Blow
From the “Geezer Butler” school of bass playing, adding a distortion unit to the humble bass, turns a normally gentle instrument into instant pulsing power chords. “Low blow” is a perfect demonstration of how Geezer would fill in the solos of Toni Iommi, and so give the illusion of a second guitar. The sound surrounds and dominates the track, with its “for mosh just add bass” recipe. The backbone of the track is a technical, stadium
rock drum sound, marching inevitably ahead like the approach
of a tank column. Fans of the band Muse will recognise the
tortured vocal style, which combined with the bass sets a deliciously black texture to this BB Blackdog track.
Michael Roberts for http://www.guestlistmusic.blogspot.com/

Mono Bar Birmingham Review
The band on stage was 3 amazing guys (2 from Germany) called BB BLACKDOG. These guys are old time rock and roll boys with a alternate line up of 2 bass players and one Yamaha 4000 drum kit, adapted and bespoke for the 6 foot 9 German drummer. You can tell these guys are used to gigging by the way the crowd stopped and we mesmerised by music being produced. I did not think 2 bass would work but how wrong was I? and with a song about speed dating where the whole audience was laughing at he lyrics, it worked well. (even the sound engineer was pissing him self and he never smiles). After the show, the band helped the bar profits in true German style and waited around the whole night to see the other bands, great blokes and a great sound, Mono bar was proud to promote the Birmingham leg of the tour.
Simon for mono bar reviews http://www.monobar-live.co.uk/gigreview.htm


Good stuff;)
Very original!!! Great, deep voice of the vocal. It sounds great! This is one of the most unique songs I've heard on this website. Great progression and mixture of styles. I love it, love it:):):)
- Hristina_H www.GarageBand.com

Cool stuff.
Your typical bizarre alternative punk country. lol. good energy, must be fun live, good luck.
chuckles11 Flushing, New York

Blues for the year 2103
Is the vocals for real? It sounds like a man that lived way too hard for way too many years. But it’s unique and I like it. He sings good and compelling, and the fact that I can’t make out one single word he is singing, doesn’t derive this from a good feel to the vocals. The riff is heavy and mangling. And the production adds an extra kick to this. I like the effect that you use on the bass.
The melodies to this is bluesy, but paired with heavy rock, indie and this singers undoubfully original voice personality.
This is Good. It sounds desperate, and bluesy, but like blues for the year 2103
leifwedin Stockholm, Sweden (Translated from Swedish)

Waka Waka
Head bobbin. Elvis is persecuted once more. Was that the- f.word s-word.Suck my....oh shoot...bad boy! I like it. It’s porno elvis. Awesome! I just added your comedy to my list! O for originality!
Deadlyone Buffalo, New York

wow,
I get rarely goose skin, however with the sound came here this super well..., super arranged... keep on rockin
Pitti The RAM (Apologies Translated from German via babelfish)

Yes, grooved.
Interesting composition with mad sounds, pleases me, everything quite fastidiously and professionally converted. www.Myownmusic.de (Apologies Translated from German via babelfish)

We have also had a number of longer reviews in German newspapers and magazines, but as yet have no professional translation