Rejecting the long, overblown intro and the gimmicky voice-overs and visual imagery synonymous with the higher echelons of the tribute band world, T-Rextasy crack straight on with the music.
The virtual capacity audience in Cromer had come to party and remember Marc Bolan and his music.
Touring for 13 years, The Electric Boogie Tour, featuring four-piece band T-Rextasy and fronted by Bolan lookalike, soundalike and guitar-alike Danielz now takes on elements of the blues and punk feel of Bolan and T Rex.
Looking back now, what Bolan chose to refer to at the time as cosmic rock appears to have been a hybrid of what would later mutate into the brand of guitar-driven punk, which bands such as the Ramones and later the Damned would later claim as an influence, long after Bolan’s untimely death in 1977.
On the night in Cromer, T-Rextasy immediately proved their credentials as a great live band, as the driving Metal Guru and the hand-clapping back-beat of Ride a White Swan were played early in this two-hour gig.
A bit of acoustic work was thrown in as an impromptu request item, proving that, as Danielz stated between songs: “Unlike some of the Abbas and Queens in the tribute market, we really are completely live.”
As for Danielz himself, he is surely more than a career lookalike. Here we have a serious guitarist with the animal grace of the early Bolan and the clear unequivocal love of the music.
Certainly not the type of ghastly clone who simply nods in the direction of his chosen tribute in some form of grotesque homage. As Bolan’s friend David Bowie sang in All the Young Dudes, Man I Need TV, when I Got T Rex.
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