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Let's get this out of the, uh, way: It needs to be said that the guitar solo in Fastball's wondrous hit “The Way” was the coolest solo on radio in a decade that had some fucking awesome guitar work. As the ’90s revival is about to start biting us in the ass, we think it's important to start quantifying these things, lest some douchebag somewhere mistakenly lump Fastball in with say, Lifehouse or (God forbid) Eve 6. Fastball wasn't part of the “grunge” thing or the “alternative” thing, but rather that weird alternate universe of power-pop—a timeless cosmic constant that infrequently collides with this mortal coil—which is why they're still interesting and worth checking out.
Mon., May 18, 9 p.m., 2009
Mon., May 18, 9 p.m., 2009
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