The Smokestack Jacks and the Phantom Creeps kicked off a one week tour at the Slice with extremely loud and 
tight sets, April 2. Smokestack Jacks started by playing most of the songs from their brand new full length self titled CD.
As per usual there was a lot of raunchy slide guitar and incendiary energy which had a good sized crowd cheering in their seats.
They played a ‘pop’ song which included liberal use of cowbell and sent out their ‘Birthday’ song to one of the audience members celebrating her birthday.
The Phantom Creeps started their set with a few bars from Survivor’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’ then ripped into a high octane set with a couple of excellent new to me tracks, then played a couple tracks from their new CD including ‘Hell To Pay,’ ‘Cold Hearted Man’ and ‘Route 666’ and a good new song called ‘Scorpion’
— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
