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". . .Future dB`s Peter Holsapple, Will Rigby & Chris Stamey -- along with that other NC power-pop giant Mitch Easter -- all had a role in Little Diesel... Originally recorded by Stamey "in his bedroom" back in 1974/5, the seventeen tracks were cleaned and polished by him in 2006. . . then released with high school yearbook pix of all the players on the label side of the CD... What we`ve got here is the work of a brace of enthusiastic high schoolers showing off their smarts with a buncha cool covers and dipping their toes into the act of writing tunes themselves. Holsapple appears to have been the primary creative force behind the band`s three original tracks... Though Little Diesel has great taste in covers on more than occasion you can hear the material defeating `em. Like most young bands, LD frequently shores up its lack of experience with youthful enthusiasm. Lead singer Bob Northcott is an inspired babbler while young Rigby gets a lot out of his small drum kit and electric guitarists Holsapple and Tommy Eshelman (who appears to do the big solos) provide plenty of good garagey noise. . . Holsapple and Rigby disappear with the last three re-polished tracks -- to be replaced by Stamey, Easter plus Chris Chamis on drums. . .All in all, this makes for an amusing musical footnote. . . " -- Bill Sherman, blogcritics.org (Telstar)
