Wheel of Talent

Nearly 40 years into their career, The Fleshtones continue to find new ways to rock out. They remain true to their original concepts, but several tracks here might have longtime fans doing a double take. “Available” and “How to Say Goodbye” feature brass and string sections, adding a sense of orchestrated fun to the proceedings. Mary Huff of Southern Culture on the Skids stops by for a guest lead vocal on “For a Smile.” The Music Machine’s “I See the Light” is sung in Spanish as “Veo La Luz.” These old-school rockers, who played garage rock before the multiple revivals, have a right to be annoyed by the changes in their Brooklyn neighborhood (“Available,” “Hipster Heaven”), and any serious fan will be right on with “Remember the Ramones,” a tribute to the great band from another of New York’s outer boroughs, Queens. Peter Zaremba keeps up the vocal craziness alongside Keith Streng, and their keyboards and guitars, respectively, prove that rock ’n’ roll can never die as long as someone remembers how to play it!

The Fleshtones are well into their fifth decade of making believers out of the most jaded naysayers with their mongrel stew known as “Super Rock.” Dubbed “America's Garage Rock Band” and “The Kings Of Garage Rock,” The Fleshtones have been the subject of books and movies as well as amazement from fans and detractors alike. Recently the band has seen much touring, collaborative work on the Mondo Zombie Boogaloo album and tour with Los Straitjackets and Southern Culture On The Skids, and a 45 featuring vocals from the lovely Mary Huff. And The Fleshtones charged straight into 2014 with tons of US and international dates on the horizon to present fans with their latest full length, Wheel Of Talent, featuring thirteen new tracks full of fuzz guitar and farfisa organ riffs to satisfy everyone’s Surf - Garage - Rockabilly - Soul needs.

Nothing is what it used to be, except perhaps for the Fleshtones -- since 1976, America's leading Super Rock band has been exploding into a ball of entertainment on a regular basis in front of audiences around the world with their patented mixture of garage rock, vintage pop, hard rock, first-generation punk, and anything else that sounds cool to them.