THUNDER AND LIGHTNING Luis Mariani and The Hitchhiker Wanna Get You Into It

from Feb 2015

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

Luis Mariani and The Hitchhiker Wanna Get You Into It
​By Jimmy Horseman

 

Ok, I got it. Here it is... 

If Billy Gibbons and David Lee Roth had a baby, swaddled him in a blue jean jacket and aged him in a laboratory, went back in time to 1989 and then made him the lead singer for a Motley Crue/Poison/Boston supergroup, that's what the Hitchhiker sounds like. While there's no doubt Luis Mariani is a rock star; more importantly, he's a good dude. He decided to surround himself with a bunch of other good dudes (Casey Wells, Jude Dupont, Mark Dupont, and Josiah Menard), and formed one of the most entertaining bands this town has seen in a long time. Late December 2014 saw the release of Hitchhiker's newest EP, Thunder and Lightning. This past week, I would listen to the new tunes and kinda discuss them with my BRR buds. Everybody agreed that it not only kicked ass, but that Luis would give you the ELO t-shirt off his back, if you ever needed it.

 

If you haven't gotten a chance to listen yet, head on over to their bancamp site and

give their facebook page a like HERE.