DAVIE ALLAN & THE ARROWS
Devil's Rumble


"Thankfully, the kind folks at Sundazed have put together this amazing 40-song collection, culling Allan's best-known material on one fat package." - "Allan is an American original whose music has served to both define his own generation as well as lay influence on countless others ever since.  Absolutely essential. - THE BIG TAKE-OVER

"...throw on either one of these discs, crank up the volume and listen:  it stands up on its own.  Not only that, it has the power to thrill the ears - time after time." - MS - UGLY THINGS

The 16-page booklet accompanying the set is packed to the gills with information that features band history, interviews with both Allan and Mike Curb, remembrances from some of the original Arrows, unseen photos, original album graphics and motion picture posters, and of course plenty of the vintage sizzle and fuzz for which Allan and his Arrows are renowned." - The Narragansett Times

"This 28-track anthology collects an eclectic array of album cuts plus 45 singles and soundtrack tracks.  Throw in a selection of interviews with Dave himself, rare photos, a band history and original album graphics and you have a worthy collection via the mean and moody boys from the US of A."  - *** - Record Collector

"Sometimes it feels like New York's Sundazed Records is on a mission to digitize the entire 1960's canvas of popular music in America...the most historically interesting and important music of that period anyway.  The quantity and quality of the label's digital reissues continue to be impressive.  A case in point is the new Davie Allan & The Arrows anthology, Devil's Rumble." "As is typically expected from Sundazed, Devil's Rumble includes a well-written and nicely illustrated set of liner notes, in this instance a 16-page booklet documenting the band and the recordings.  This package runs on all cylinders." - discoveries

"...his sound evolved at hyper-speed from an amiable surf guitar twang to a fuzzy overload; imagine starting out like Duane Eddy and ending up like Ron Asheton.  Sundazed have cherry-picked forty prime cuts for this superb double-disc set." - signal to noise

"Guitar group that pushed the boundaries before Hendrix." - "Allan was at the forefront of early fuzzbox use, and was also imaginative in his use of other effects, befitting the often abrasive film themes that he was supporting.  As his work progressed he began to coax ever more strained sounds from his instrument, and was early in embracing psychedelia with tracks like 'Cycle-Delic.'  The feel is in a direct line from Link Wray's 'Rumble' and as such makes this a very powerful collection indeed." - Kingsley Abbott - **** - RECORD COLLECTOR - September 2004 Issue 301

"Davie Allan made his mark with a fuzzbox that makes his songs sound like a tuneful chainsaw.  That sound fit well with cheesy teen movies featuring motorcycles and bad attitudes.  A legend was born." - "The booklet is loaded with great band pics and record repros, plus several essays (including one each by Curb and Allan). May the fuzz be with you!" - George W. Krieger - GOLDMINE

"This 40-track, double disc collection is the only true best-of that fuzz guitar frenzy icon Davie Allan will ever need." - AMG Rating ****1/2 - Thom Jurek - All music guide

"This is a great double disc set finally wrested from Mike Curb's clutches. 'Bout time!" ***** - Phil Dirt - Reverb Central

**** - "SWANKY... that's the mood of the package at least on this two-CD set.... But the music? Uh, that'd be quite MENACING! Davie Allan & the Arrows were the mofos who picked the FUZZ outta some biker-flick soundtracks. And I said FUZZ, so don't expect any 'incidental' moody jazz/funk or strung-with-strings 'soundtrack' sounds, rather expect DA & the A first to spit in yer eye and THEN punch you in the face with surf-ish instrumental and fuzzed out ROCK! Way cool for the 'soundtrack' value AND single sides, but these tracks stand as pimple-faced fuck-offs... bikers, on screen or off, couldn'ta asked for a more fitting SOUND. And that's sayin' LOTS as it's hard to keep guitar-driven instros appealing beyond kitsch, but Allan is a clever fella, and his leads never fail to maintain excitement or a sinister mood with ace pop appeal! Yeah, so like, Devil's Rumble... SIZZLES!" - Mike Nipper - The Portland MERCURY and THE STRANGER

"For a fat chunk of the 1960's guitarist Davie Allan was the undisputed boss hog of biker-movie soundtracks. Pushing the California sunshine of surf rock through Gibson and Mosrite distortion boxes, Allan and his band the Arrows took garage rock straight to Middle America via gnarly instrumental scores for American international exhaust such as The Wild Angels, Devil's Angels and Thunder Alley. Allan (with producer and frequent co-writer Mike Curb) pumped out nearly twenty B-movie LPs and four under his own name in the five years covered in this snorting two-CD set, so he didn't have time for long solos. The '66 Top Forty hit 'Blue's Theme' (from The Wild Angels) is, like most of these tracks, a two-minute paragon of death-race pith, with a straight-line melody soaked in dirty scream. A big exception: '67's 'Cycle-Delic,' seven minutes of Allan writhing in rusted-wah-wah agony - like Jimi Hendrix in 'Third Stone From the Sun,' with Roger Corman riding shotgun." - David Fricke - ROLLING STONE, JULY 8-22, 2004

"Still hanging fast to instrumentals, the band's sound was characterized by Davie's fervid, fuzztoned to death fretboard prowess that yielded revolutionary yet fully accessible licks with relative ease. Not only that, but each player in The Arrows had impeccable command of his instrument, causing them to be a tightly wound outfit. Jolting hooks, assisted by brawny arrangements were also responsible for making the band's material so instantly memorable." - "Every individual track on 'Devil's Rumble Anthology '64-'68' is a keeper. The whole collection buzzes along nicely, as one smoking cut melts right into the other." "Duly crowned 'The King Of Fuzz,' Davie's six-string finesse possesses a language and personality all its own. His guitar really knows how to communicate and is as visual as it is sonic. Busting at the belly with electrifying instrumentals that aren't the least bit dated, 'Devil's Rumble Anthology '64-'68' dials in as the missing link between standard surf music and heavy duty garage punk." - The Lance Monthly Review

DAVIE ALLAN & THE ARROWS
Restless In L.A.

"...Restless In L.A. rocks with a sense of renewed style and passion."
- "Kudos to Davie Allan & The Arrows for a job well done." - www.mwe3.com

"...a kick-ass collection of songs that spotlight Allan's majestically fuzzed-out guitar playing and even feature-of all things-vocals on a couple of tracks.  But the true essence of Allan's powerful melodic style is revealed on the purely instrumental cuts such as 'Arrow Highway.'
-"But crank up this music and you can almost feel the wind-in-your-hair freedom of a sunset cruise along the California coast, and hear the staccato blast of that stroked Harley that's speeding you along." -Guitar Player Magazine

"Restless In L.A. commemorates 40 years of professional recording for guitarist Davie Allan, whose fabled fuzztone put the 'drive' in many drive-in movie soundtracks."
- "Although this new CD contains a re-recorded rendition of that film's theme, it's just a parting glance in the rearview mirror as Restless roars triumphantly into the 21st century."
"But, under generous applications of Allan's trademark roaring overdrive, the psychedelic becomes cycle-delic."
- VIBES

"I would be understating the importance of this recording if I did not say that it was another masterpiece of instrumental tracks, and surely, it is.  I could get restless anywhere listening to all these shots of driving electrical energy.  I do not think I have to be in L.A. to feel the raw emotion and authoritative licks coming off Allan's guitar.  It works for me anywhere." - Lance Monthly

"Davie has a unique sound."
- "The fuzz will not let you down." - Garage and Beat Magazine

"Restless In L.A. is easily the best thing he's ever done!  A stunningly powerful and beautiful (in the heavy sense) CD!  Immense and intense power!  Big fuzz and liquid playing.  Often hard, fast and dangerous, but even in the most relaxed and frivolous mood, Davie Allan's guitar conveys a disquieting menace.  That's part of what makes his sound so unique and so attractive.  The Arrows are one of the most powerful and overlooked rhythm sections in rock and roll, David Winogrond - drums and Bruce Wagner - bass. The writing is consistently strong and melodic, and the guitar wizardry unsurpassed.  No surf this time out, just lots of top drawer biker fuzz as only King Fuzz can make."
-Reverb Central

" Sonic Jazzmaster king and master of the long sustain distorto tone is back with another helping of dark, throbbing coastal highway and outsider rock." - Mohair Sweets