Vippers’ Squirrel Venture II – a review, by that there Monty off of the World Wide Web
Last time I reviewed the first part of this marvellous prog-out, I wrote it like a proper review, so this time I am posting my notes in chronological order as looking at them they seem quite funny. To me.
1. Hawkwind noises!
2. Deep Purple (drums beefed up compared with part 1, vg)
3. Nice 12-string style breakdown
4. 70s heavy riffage [BEST BIT SO FAR!]
5. Nice restrained, tasteful solo
6. BACKWARDS GUITAR (three ticks)
7. Psych-out, Page-ish acoustic trip with Hawks-ish ambience
8. Nice buildup into Supernautish bit
9. Comedy harmonics!
10. Mellow psych
11. Dance beat, quite hypnotic, Banshees-esque for some reason. Good stuff – doesn’t sound like ‘guitar band goes dance’
12. Ooh – doomy!
13. Bit ‘grunge’, my least fave so far – I’d have gone Morricone here which it nearly does
14. TRACTOR!
15. Metal meltdown: skills
16. Gay piano jazz

It's a triumph - production-wise leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessor and even stronger in the tunes department. If the guitarist could only stop being such a horrific bottom-wrangler these chaps have WHAT IT TAKES.

EDIT I'm not expecting any replies to this (apart from 'why?'), don't worry.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:21, 30 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yeah, don't care. I've been dole scum for a grand total of 30 hours this year and I'm now back in the world of employment and MOAR BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:30, Reply)

I'm too busy planning
THE EXPENSIVE DINNER your news means to me to think about much else.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:32, Reply)

Dinner? Oh man I forgot about that. I need to eat some food.
But yes I OWE YOU DIN DINS.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:55, Reply)

I like din dins.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:57, Reply)

BODEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEANS
We must do this next month. Yes.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:01, Reply)

Stop! Tayyabstime.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:03, Reply)

Mmmm...Tayyabs...Mmmm...

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:03, Reply)

congrats on the job becks
well pleased for you
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:58, Reply)

COMPANY CAR hahahahaha
I out croissant you for once!
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:01, Reply)

Aye, that'll be a lot of good in central London
You'd be better with a company Oyster card!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 8:38, Reply)

thoroughly entertaining review there old chap
much obliged

must admit though, I'm not sure which bits you are referring to in places.

just occurred to me that the tasteful guitar solo wasn't me, it was my colleague
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:34, Reply)

Every time it changed (I think) I made a note.
I am a little 'refreshed', though, so perhaps there is a recurring 'gibberish' theme...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:39, Reply)

fair enough
which is the Tractor bit? The acoustic bit with oohs and aahs?

the solo during the metal bit at the end is probably the best one I've ever committed to tape which is quite pleasing
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:40, Reply)

a) yes, a touch of 'Every Time it Happens' (highest available praise)
b) I read that as 'I've committed a rape'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:42, Reply)

nice
I must have been subliminally inspired by them. Only bit I didn't do on that section was the chicken-shaker thing.

what did you think of the end?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:43, Reply)

A bit 'Duke of Kent'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:43, Reply)

that's fair
I find it fairly hilarious
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:46, Reply)

I did smirk.
But at the end of an odyssey such as that, is 'smirking' really the way you want to leave your listener? Were it my opus I think I'd return to the slolw, heavy riff from item 4 to tie it all together...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:48, Reply)

you raise an interesting point
my thoughts were that we wanted to remind the listener that despite what they have just heard, tongues should remain planted firmly in cheeks.

If part 4 is the bit I think it is, I have to admit I had nothing to do with that bit. I was blown away when I first heard it. My mate had been listening to a lot of Wolfmother and the like at the time.

I'll go and refresh myself and have a think about it. It's about time we got on with some more music.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:53, Reply)

To become super-heavy you have to go super-slow, I reckon.
Black Sabbath proved this time and time again...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:55, Reply)

I think you are right
certainly my best heavy stuff is slow.

I'd really like a 5 string bass to work with.

*looks at watch*
reefer time
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:57, Reply)

I have some fabulous Moroccan hashish at the moment.
Nearly on par with what I smoked 'in situ'. Blond, but dark and very oily. Like my women*

*that I've just made up
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:00, Reply)

I like my coffee as I like my women
ground up and kept in the freezer.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:03, Reply)

Tescos Californian Zinfandel is much nicer than Tescos Reserve Californian Zinfandel
What's up with that?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:39, Reply)

Cillit Bang is better than any Zinfandel I've ever drunk.
What's THAT all about?

*Seinfeld face*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:41, Reply)

You just haven't drunk the right zinfandel
I drank a Gallo one and complained about it to an epicurean friend and promptly got a bottle of Clos du Bois which was fucking godlike.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:48, Reply)

An ex of mine was related to the Gallos.
That's precisely where I'd send them to, were I 'Wine Steppenfuhrer'. 'Turning Leaf'? Turning fucking Japanese I say.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:51, Reply)

I went to their winery a few years ago and got utterly shitfaced on Grenache and Zinfandel. I think they liked me.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 21:57, Reply)

I have heard Gallo referred to as Grape Assassins subsequently
I steer clear these days.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:02, Reply)

Serial grapists, they are.
Foul.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 22:03, Reply)