Cracking jokes with the crowd, he explained that you shouldnвЂ™t tell him your story if you donвЂ™t want a potentially embarrassing song to be written about it.ДЇrom walking the crowd, to mic stand and mic tricks, Angell kept the fans entertained and visually engaged as a front man throughout the show.

With each song, he took the crowd through an emotional story of the ups and downs of life, presented through WP2. Jeff Angell lead Walking Papers through their headlining set, playing the crowd with his charm and wit. Opening act Vaudeville Etiquette set the mood for the night with their soulful blues infused country/rock that didnвЂ™t miss a beat, while creating a positive energy with The Crocodile crowd. Pulling out all the stops, Walking Papers added some special guests to the album release show вЂ“ Nate Daley (guitar), Evan Flory Barnes (upright bass), Dave Carter (Trumpet), and Hans Teuber (Saxophone). Walking Papers, formed in July 2012, features Jefferson Angell (vocals/guitar), Benjamin Anderson (keys/vocals), Duff McKagan (bass guitar), and Barrett Martin (drums). That plan may already have backfired, but given the results, Art Of Anarchy might well argue that the ends have justified the means.Seattle-based supergroup Walking Papers celebrated the release of their second album, WP2, to an intimate sold-out crowd at the infamous Crocodile in Seattle, Washington. вЂJust grab an out-of-work rock starвЂ™ might have been more apposite. SuperstarвЂ™s sardonic instruction that вЂif you wanna hit the big time baby, just grab itвЂ™ sounds distinctly ironic given WeilandвЂ™s subsequent claims.

Ultimately, though, the story surrounding the album is bound to influence the way you hear it. Nonetheless, on The Drift and Grand Applause the ants-on-a-hot-tin-roof approach his fingertips adopt with the fretboard make for some startling breaks. have soaring hooks custom-built for radio rotation.Д«umblefoot has always been one of those guitarists whose solos can prick up the clothiest of ears, so itвЂ™s a bit of a surprise that heвЂ™s fairly sparing with it on this record. The juggernaut chug of Time Everytime also hits the spot, while Get On Down, Death Of It and Til The Dust. Opening track Small Batch Whiskey blends guttural grunge, staccato thrash and metallic fret-mangling to underpin WeilandвЂ™s ever-malevolent mewl, while the latterвЂ™s lyrics (вЂNothing to say, itвЂ™s your choice, no one to blameвЂ™) suggest a degree of frank self-awareness on the great manвЂ™s part that those who have worked with him might argue is uncharacteristic. Who knows how that will affect any potential tour to promote the record, but once you disregard the one-man soap opera surrounding its release and listen to the music. In fact, from the way he described it, youвЂ™d think heвЂ™d done little more than wandered past a recording studio and accidentally had his tonsils kidnapped.ДЄpart, that is, from posing for publicity shots in the band line-up, writing lyrics and vocal melodies and recording them on the album as well as doing вЂњsome production work on itвЂќ, over a period of two years when he claims he вЂњsort of got into when I wasnвЂ™t doing anything elseвЂќ. When asked about the band, the never knowingly diplomatic Mr Weiland claimed the whole thing was a вЂњscamвЂќ, heвЂ™d been paid to be on the record, and he was not a member of the band. And when GNвЂ™R guitarist Ron вЂBumblefootвЂ™ Thal hooked up with Disturbed bassist John Moyer and brothers Jon and Vince Votta for a new project they called Art Of Anarchy, they achieved something of a coup in persuading ex-STP and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland to take the mic.

Is it a supergroup? Is it a вЂњscamвЂќ? Who cares вЂ“ the music works either way.Д®very band needs a focal point. Here's the whole review since you have to register to read it:

Walking papers album review