Thursday 7/24/08 @ Trash, Brooklyn

With Thinning The Herd, Planeside, Backwoods Payback and Viking Skull. Another show where people got REALLY messed up. It was great! Gavin from Thinning has a lot of mutual friends with us so it was cool to finally meet up with him.

Backwoods are friends with Mess With The Bull and are a great band and awesome people. Hopefully we'll be playing with them again soon. This was also the first show ever in America of Viking Skull. Jess Margera from CKY is their new drummer. This was definitely the loudest show ever at the Trash Bar. Owen from the Everyothers did a great job behind the board. Walt and Joey from the Bullys were there, too. Maximum stone gett-off was achieved.

Set list: Hands Up; Albert Hofmann; Shooting Spree; I Live To Get High; Stone Gett-Off; The Ram; Breakin Shit; Mooche; Dusted; Hooked On Drugs

Lucid Culture review

Try listening to this cd without cracking a smile. You can’t. It’s impossible. The best parody bands know their source material inside out, which is apparent right off the bat with these completely over-the-top, Spinal Tap style Brooklyn metalheads. In the case of Mighty High, it’s the MC5 and early 70s “hard rock” – what heavy metal was called before the term was appropriated from a French comic book series - that they rip off. Production aside, the sound is pure 1971, your basic, by-the-numbers riff-rock with all the right flourishes: loud, simplistically flashy, absolutely meaningless bluesy guitar solos, scales, feedback, bass doubling the guitar line, hoarse Bon Scott-style vocals and a fixation with drugs. A lot of this is laugh-out-loud hilarious, especially the way the album ends. Some sample song titles and lyrics:

Dusted: “Living for a high to make me die, I’m getting dusted…”

Hooked on Drugs: “You never believed it could be so bad, living at home with mom and dad…I feel good, and I’m hooked on drugs. YEAAAAAH!!!!” Yes, there is a brief break for cowbell at the end of the song.

Escape from Daytop: “We’re puking on the stage and we’re ready to kill.”

The title track: “Quit your job and start your day off high.”

Drug City: “Bring the prices down, you gotta set it free, we’ll turn the whole world into Drug City.”

The jokes aren’t limited to lyrics. The various guitar solos on Buy a Pound range from the sublimely awful to the ridiculous, particularly when the song goes doublespeed. Albert Hofmann, a homage to the man who first synthesized LSD, pillages the Blue Oyster Cult classic Dominance & Submission. Is this to suggest that Swiss scientist was a Nazi? Shooting Spree, a tribute to a sniper in a tower, features a break with cops on a bullhorn. The one-liners are so good it wouldn’t be fair to give them away. I Live to Get High edges into the 80s with a solo lifted straight from Iron Maiden, but it’s great all the same. The cd closes with T.S. Eliot, a rap-metal number: “You don’t like it. So what. We do!” Fans of Tenacious D, Rawles Balls, Satanicide and, yeah, Spinal Tap will love this album. Or spin this for just about any fun person you know who has a sense of humor and a taste for loud music (and intoxicants – it’s probably best appreciated in combination with several at once). Mighty High plays Trash Bar at 10 on July 24.

Stone Gett-Off shirt now available

You know you want one. $15 postpaid in the USA, $20 postpaid in the rest of the world via paypal.com (send funds to mightyhighrocks@yahoo.com). Throw an extra $5 on and we'll send you a CD with the shirt!

Julian Cope review

From Julian Cope's Head Heritage website.



What with Sir Lord Baltimore unexpectedly returning as a Christian band (Gor Lummie) and the Stooges manifesting as a Madonna-bumming post-Hives power pop combo for their comeback, it’s good to see that Brooklyn’s Mighty High is still flying the flag for sheer adrenalin’n’drug-fuelled hard rock. Their debut album MIGHTY HIGH IN DRUG CITY effortlessly surfs the tsunami thrown up by DC’s LET THERE BE ROCK-period as though redirected through Grand Funk’s scorching (and remedial) version of ‘Gimmie Shelter’; the bass fuzzing everything up without resorting to High Rise-style all-pervading filth. Released on Mighty High’s own Mint Deluxe Tapes, these guys have battened down their metaphor so tight, you can’t slide a razor blade between their concepts. Clothed in a mega-tripped-out jacket rendered by the legendary Wayne Bjerke, and replete with such songs as ‘Hooked On Drugs’, ‘Albert Hoffman’, ‘Buy The Pound’, ‘Dusted’, ‘Breakin’ Shit’ and ‘TS Eliot’ (I shit you not), could there be an erudite barbarian trip more obstinate and thorough? Me neither, C’mon!

http://www.headheritage.co.uk/addressdrudion/109/2008/

Classic Rock Magazine review by Sleazegrinder

8 out of 10 stars, June 2008 issue.

There's no shortage of MC5 revivalists out there. All you need, really, is a white man's 'fro and a criminal guitar player and you're kicking out the jams, motherfucker. But a dedicated MC5 tribute that actually captures that seminal band's aura of roof-burning, citizen-spooking, pill-shoveling psycho-delic? Well, in that case you better head straight to Drug City. Brooklyn's Mighty High strip 60's death-trip rock down to its most primal essence: narcotic rage and screaming guitars. Every song is about scoring drugs, and they all sound like angry cops busting hippies' heads in.

Positively relentless and gorgeous in its shameless vulgarity. Drug City is a revolution-rock manifesto for creeps, cretins and sexy kidnappers. Awesome.

Jersey Beat Reviews

Split decision at JerseyBeat.com

Jim Testa liked it!

These Brooklyn mooks have been rockin’ the boroughs for 5 years now with their high-energy, old-school, kick out the jams style of raunchy rock ‘n’ roll. Given that every song they do is about doing drugs, it’s probably not surprising that they’re just now releasing their first full-length. It’d be easy enough to dismiss the band (who go by stage names like Woody High, T.J. Whippets, and Tommy Blow) as a one-joke novelty act if not for the fact that these songs really do rock, with a fuzzed-out pre-punk Stooges/MC5 adrenaline (or perhaps more accurately, amphetamine) rush. Even if you don’t get high yourself, rock and roll fans will find that Mighty High will still blow your mind.

But Dave Dillon did not!!

They describe themselves as a “classic rock inspired punk/metal band dedicated to getting loaded and playing loud.” All this has to offer is twelve boring songs about drugs that mostly all surpass the three minute mark and consistently fail to differentiate from the songs before them. I’m supposed to be impressed that a 30something from NYC is able to smoke a lot of weed when half the kids in my suburban town have been doing it since middle school? Yea, sure. Also, someone should tell these dudes that it isn’t smart to take pictures of your stash in public and then post them on the Internet. If you want to hear the same riffs and subject matter over and over, pick this one up.

New York Waste review

All the way from Brooklyn, MIGHTY HIGH send us “In Drug City” and it’s got a punch, a kick and a smack to it. This band launches into its songs with a strong bold mighty rock ‘n’ roll like something AD/DC or Ted Nugent might have done back in the day. Gets you just where you wanna be, and with Brain O doing the artwork, what’s not to love.