The Band

Root Deco receives regular airplay on broadcast and Internet radio around the world, including Overflow Radio, Radio Marabu, Radio Six International, KKUP, Preying Lizard's Road Rash, Luver and other stations.

Notables

We Come In Peace - Dress For Success
"Tighten that tie like a Corporate noose 'til your double chin hangs soft and loose."

Rain, Steam, Speed - Rain, Steam, Speed
"We haul no escapees, or dark commodities, like the slavers and thieves on these interstellar seas we ply."

This Island Earth - Arise
"This party has rattled on all night. The collective attire's a real fright. The cackling and yawning's incessant. Martini meets antidepressant."

Third World Planet - I Don't Want To Go To Heaven
"As I head on down the road there's a million lonely shepherds up there reaping what they sowed."

Reviews

This one ("A Taste of Champagne World" EP*) is hot. The guitars (are) solid and ripping, the songs tight and well arranged...its full of energy. It makes me want to revisit the disc often. More airplay coming for this rockin' CD.
Don Campau, KKUP California

("A Taste of Champagne World" EP is) really GREAT…personal enjoyment... and airplay guaranteed!
Lord Litter, Radio Marabu, Germany

Root Decos's "Rain Steam Speed"...it's well worth checking out if you like mid to late 60's west coast psychedelic rock delivered with real conviction and high octane energy. "Rain Steam Speed" has...great songs on it. One of these, "Rainbow"...ranks among (the) best...the whole piece has that classic Doors (feel). The social conscience of ("Working Class") comes across strongly. "'Find Myself" is great fun...like a forgotten 45 from a bygone era.
Phil Jackson, Paradox One

Love your sound! Very Yardbirds!
Les Lewellyn, Preying Lizard Music

First thought, Egypt. Second thought, Led Zeppelin. Root Deco is Paul Johnson and Larry Vilchek combined with 6 and 12 stringed guitars, low tuned drums and feedback. The show stopping rhythm section and the virtuosity of the guitars shows off the influence of The Yardbirds. Easily classified as a rock, blues rock, or heavy metal band, Root Deco has taken their..."Dragon Rings a Bell"...album three hundred and sixty degrees and explored varies styles...("Dragon...") proves that the golden age of music occurred in the age of Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Van Morrison and Dylan. The front cover art work is a deceiving display of the music contained in the CD. One would never know it from the awe-inspiring, dirt-raw rock that is uncovered once the plastic seal is removed from the album. Don't pass this...up.
Courtney Vanderbeck, Music News Nashville

This ROCKS!!! Judging from the list of who I think they sound like, this band can successfully go any way it wants: heavy metal, heroine rock, blues rock--it's all good. Brings To Mind: Led Zeppelin, Dylan, The Cramps, Lords of the New Church, Hoodoo Gurus.
MotherLoveVibe, South of Mainstream

"A Sip of Champagne" CD (Stone Premonitions/Stone Island) is a promotional taster of Root Deco's forthcoming "Champagne World"* album, a joint release from Stone Premonitions and the similarly named and like-minded Stone Island label. "S.O.S." is essentially the American kind of folk-rock, combined with the rawness and noisiness of garage rock. "Big Parade" is ultramelodic psych-rock, whilst "What's With You?" is 70s style heavy rock with bluesy elements. Finally there is a cover of Cream's "Deserted Cities of the Heart," presented in the same kind of raw retro rock style as their own material. Root Deco's style is authentically vintage...worlds apart from all the fake retro bands of recent years, who rip off stuff from the 60s in order to follow fads, it is very clear from listening to Root Deco that they really practise what they preach, they really live this sort of music, not simply act it out. Truly excellent stuff - am very keen to hear the full album.
Bliss Aquamarine

Root Deco's "We Come in Peace" (CD)...Old school Psychadelic rock ala 1960's era bands. Root Deco takes Psychadelic folk rock into a completely different hemisphere, bringing with them the newly acquainted space rock in the midsts of their progressive stylings...the music sounds...more complex...than from that time. The solos are about as extreme as it can get for rock...solos that walk along the walls with their colorful effects. There is even some jazz fusion influence to be heard throughout the release. Any psychadelia fan should really get off on this album...old school rockers looking for a nostalgic kick should also check this out.
Lord Lycan at Heathen Harvest

Root Deco's Dragon Rings a Bell, We Come In Peace, Rain Steam Speed CDs...Three albums from this very impressive retro rock band. Their music is a kind of raw psychedelic roots-rock with an authentically vintage (late 60s/early 70s) feel. As an American band, much of their folk influence comes from American folk music, but they also show a certain amount of inspiration from British folk music, and incorporate touches of this to great effect in songs like "Kind of More or Less." This album also includes "Bluesday," a song that reminds me a little of early Delta. "Piper" is upbeat country-rock, using humour to get across a serious message on environmental destruction. "Shallow Man" is doom-laden psych-rock. "I Don't Want To Go To Heaven" is basically country-rock, but with a Celtic twist. "Eyes in the Back of My Head" has lyrics that see with bitter hatred and anger, matched by the searing, crunching guitar. The title track of the next album "We Come In Peace" sets a medieval folk ballad-like melody to riotous psych-rock instrumentation. "Dress For Success" is a tongue in cheek ode to power dressing set to fierce heavy rock. "Postcard" combines rock, pop and jazz and introduces female vocals, courtesy of the producer Heidi Gerber. "Stone God" is a folk-rock piece lamenting the modern tendency to bury nature underneath faceless concrete buildings. "Abduction" and "Passing Fantasy" are angular experimental rock. Moving on to the next album, "Rain Steam Speed," we have here "O'Ryan in the Underworld," a crazed mix of garage rock, blues and folk; the Eastern-tinged psych-rock of "Rainbow;" "Find Myself," a more cheery, poppy number than is the norm for this band; the medieval-inspired folk-rock of "Alfonso;" and the jangly pop meets American-style folk-rock of "Big Parade," amongst other tracks. The album ends with the hugely catchy "49," a song that encapsulates the band's enthusiasm for music: "You don't stop playing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop playing". Too right as well! Very high quality stuff; fans of various subgenres of retro rock really ought to investigate what this band has to offer.
Kim Harten, Bliss/Aquamarine review

Wow-this is something else. It's like a souped-up answer to classic Jefferson Airplane mixed with a dash of early Springsteen, a touch of Pete Droge, some scorching Kaukonen-Casady-like guitar play and a set of psychedelic bluesiana that hits the spot right from the start and never looks back...and some wicked guitar work not to mention a corking rhythm section throughout. This is phenomenal stuff.
Andy Garibaldi, CDS

Root Deco's "Dragon Rings A Bell"...(has the) right mix of styles, from the jolly hocky sticks of "Piper" to the almost early period Hawkwind(ish) "Shallow Man." Twelve tracks in all that go through three hundred and ninety degrees of styles...the boys deliver each and every track with confidence.
(Dw) Modern-Dance, the A-Z Music Review Magazine

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