Rock & Roll Is Good for You: The Fieger/Averre Demos

Liner Note Author: Lee Lodyga.Recording information: 1973; 1975.Photographer: Frank Zinn.For Rock & Roll Is Good for You, Omnivore digs deep into the vaults of the Knack and finds the demos Doug Fieger and Berton Averre recorded between 1973 and 1975, many years before their debut, Get the Knack, appeared. Fieger and Averre didn't have "My Sharona" back then but they did have "Good Girls Don't" and "That's What the Little Girls Do" completed and ready to go, along with a few other songs that were reworked into other songs later on in the band's career. So, right from the start the pop craftsmanship of Fieger/Averre was evident, something this stripped-to-the-bone collection of demos -- almost everything here is just two guitars and two voices, with a full band popping up only at the very end -- effortlessly emphasizes. Sometimes, the duo drifts into a little bit of a hippie strum-along -- the title track isn't a breakneck slice of sleaze, it bears hints of a paisley utopia -- but s