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Fourth Coast Entertainment Magazine,
Vol 4, Issue 6 (December 2009)
by John Berbich
Spinning is the new CD from Ten Speed Taxi, formerly known as Sundog. Ten Speed Taxi is a 4-man band specializing in hard-to-classify rock. There's definitely a country influence in here, a hunk of funk, some straight-ahead rock, and other friendly indefinable bits - plus you can dance to it. The main things these guys have going for them are: 1) Catchy original songs with clever tongue-in-cheek lyrics; 2) Gritty, wicked electric pink guitar by Doug Schatz; 3) Tight, spunky delivery of the music. Here's the lineup: Doug Schatz on guitar and vocals, Dan Caldwell on vocals and guitar, Dave Nelson on bass, and Phil Neisser on drums. The chief songwriters are Schatz and Caldwell. My favorite songs on this recording are "Onion's Workin'," a chaste paean to lust, and "Next Train," the rocking story of a breakup augmented with blistering guitar.