Take Her If Ya Want Her, If Ya Think Ya Can

So is it wrong to like an album 'cause you wanna see it redone? Now we don't mean redone like Still Cyco After All These Years or Exodus's recently announced Bonded By Blood plan. Nah, when we say redone we mean it in that fancy pants Hollywood re-visioning way: keep most stuff the same, but tweak the stuff that'll fool ya into thinking you got something new and different.

Rocka Rolla was Priest's 1974 debut platter, a record that's probably forgotten 'cept for the title track's puffy shirts 'n Stetsons Bri'ish telly performance (conveniently located at the bottom of this post). But here at the Duty we've spent some time with the R-deuce and we think it's brimmin' with tunes ripe for a stoner rock makeover. Not that the record itself is lackin', but we say its ZZ Top/"Frankenstein" riffin' is perfect for some downtuned fuzz pedallin'. Some gruffy soul bellows doin' Bobby Halford's sing-songin' would be divine. Heck, just try and tell us album opener "One For the Road" don't already sound like a Queens of the Stone Age cut! All these boring beardy duder Clutch bands would totally win us over if they dropped a heavified version the already feedback-segued "Winter/Deep Freeze" suite. So bands, get on it! Don't forget to "Planet Caravan" the weenie parts.