New week and this week a short run at the I's. Solid week of metal, both old and new. The oddball of the week of course comes today with The Infectious Grooves. The band was a long time side project of Mike Muir from Suicidal Tendencies. The band got off the ground when bassist Robert Trujillo joined Suicidal. The two shared a love of Funk music and decided to cut an album. Joining the band was Stephen Perkins of Janes Addiction fame. 'The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move' is a solid funk metal debut. Capturing Rob's excellent bass playing and the fun of funk, the album does in fact make the booty move. Hell even Ozzy makes an appearance on the song 'Therapy'. The band has released a few other albums, but has remained fairly quiet in the past few years. The band did jam on a few numbers at the Orion Music festival earlier this month. Sort of an obscure side band, but if ya like Suicidal than this should work for you.
Once again we stumbled onto my secret love affair with funk. I've been a fan of Suicidal Tendencies for a while and at times had forgotten Rob had actually played with them for a few years before branching off to play with the likes of Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy and eventually Metallica. Rob's bass playing on this is nothing short of stellar. Nothing like a damn good bass line to make ya wanna groove. While it's more on the metal side of funk with the slap bass technique being applied, it's remains more to the funk side of things as opposed to that slap bass we'd hear oh so much on cringe worthy nu-metal albums. Like I said great side project, would love to see something again with this band in the near future.
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