No wonder Nick Boldi, Captain Foam’s producer and manager, was quoted that the band produced “three-dimensional rock.” Oh, yeah. Yeah: THAT degree of brilliance, resilience, and knife-edged assault that bounds forth towards a sonic terminus vanishing point swallowed by forward propulsion as it stretches towards the horizon. Or The MC5 playing “I Can See For Miles” at the Grande in 1969. At this point, “No Reason” brings to mind only Sonic’s Rendezvous Band at their most extreme, Tac Poum Systeme’s “Asmodaï” in terms of relentless sonic barrage, or even “Magic Potion” by The Open Mind.
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He vocally and wordlessly apes the guitar melody ever so slightly, while it’s Echoplexed so wildly, until breaking the silence and letting loose with another monstrous guitar barrage even louder than before. “NOOOOOOOOO.REEEEEEE-SUN!!!” Bertram’s over-recorded voice continually megaphones over the insistent waves of aggro-fuzz distorto guitar, reined in by gravity alone while wedged into the front of the mix alongside the vocals - only they’re both trying to fit through the same sonic doorway at once and wind up stuck together until Bertram brings it all the way down into simmering near-silence. The vocals and guitar are pressing up against the studio glass while threatening to cause as many cracks as much as leakage from the guitar amplifiers threaten to bleed and discharge into the bass and drum tracks. Spending the majority of the time squallin’ in the red while taking a couple of breathers during two dramatic breakdowns into near-silence just before re-exploding once more, “No Reason” is a bludgeoning wall of quadruple-tracked guitars crashing against a shoreline of silence at high tide. Led by guitarist Ritchie Bertram and his wall of Traynor amplifiers with the fraternal rhythm section of Vince McFadden (drums) and Mike McFadden (bass), “No Reason” is a bombastic rallying cry of super-compressed lead distortion’d guitar and vocals jammed into a 2:50 single while the rhythm section hangs on for dear life in the back of the mix.
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Released on June 7, 1972, “No Reason” was the only record by this Canton, Ohio power trio.