"We Rock Sweet Balls and Can Do No Wrong."
The words on the CD cover are written in the same font as Iron Maiden's logo and above the statement there's a picture of a lightning storm bursting from a disco ball and striking a multicolor dancefloor that seems to be bursting into flames. The album is by Tragedy and it's described right under the logo as "an All Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees."
Is this a joke? Maybe, but six dudes in the New York band are laughing all the way to the fiery gates of hell. We Rock Sweet Balls and Can do No Wrong features 10 Bee Gees songs treated with various shades of metal. "Stayin' Alive" is sleazy, bluesy Motley Crue crossed with Guns N' Roses, but with a Judas Priest Chorus, "How Deep is Your Love" sounds like The Darkness if they actually had rocked sweet balls and "Night Fever" features a riff reminiscent of Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and ends with the chant "Here I am!" Pretty entertaining stuff, and their shows are supposedly a scream.
If you're in the city that never sleeps, find out for yourself at the band's record release party on March 22 at The Highline Ballroom. The heralded event also features the tribute bands Unchained (Van Halen), Theater of Pain (Motley Crue) and Kiss Nation.
Now, we're not super-big on tribute bands and we thought we would have been the last ones to agree that the Bee Gees can coexist peacefully in any way, shape or form with heavy metal. Hell, we remember the days we used to storm around our elementary school lunchroom chanting, "Disco sucks" and blasting AC/DC on a boombox to annoy anyone who might have preferred "Saturday Night Fever" to "The Kids Are Alright." Then again, we also reveled in reading passages from "The Satanic Bible" aloud in the high school library, but that's another story. And when it comes to rockin' silly and stupid, Tragedy might worth at least one night stand -- even if you don't respect yourself in the morning.
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