John Coltrane - Giant Steps LP xxzine The Hold Steady

The Hold Steady

things got gradually louder

Reason to Live

augmented only by a synthesized tone-row

if you will – and a rich seam of underground UK soul

John Coltrane - Giant Steps LP xxzine The Hold SteadyWhat more is there to say about one of the greatest ever? Except that seeing this cover of Giant Steps again gave me a sense memory reaction of first listening as a teenager after a mate introduced me to it. A record that I had no context for at the time, except that it shredded in a way that blew any of the classic rock guitarists that I loved at the time, and even though I understand the context a bit more now, it still shreds! Mitch