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3 going on '70s Rock'n . With Freeburn . Seedy's . Sat, May 15 "We've written the perfect album," proclaims guitarist Rick Rock'n over the phone from his Vancouver pad. "We never have to write another song for the rest of our careers." That's a pretty bold statement considering the record in question clocks in at a grand total of 13 minutes. However, when you call up a member of the band Rock'n for an impromptu phone interview, outlandish comments become the norm. "By never recording or writing again, we'll avoid the sophomore slump too," Rock'n continues. "Once people see us they'll understand." Thirteen minutes, though? To paraphrase the Dude, these guys must be into the whole brevity thing. "What we've done is taken out all the filler," Rock'n explains. "Most albums only have five good songs anyways, so we've just eliminated the songs that weren't really making it." Fair enough. Formed a few years ago through a shared love of '70s arena rock practitioners like Kiss, the members of Rock'n are musical revisionists and they make no apologies for it. "The only music we're interested in is music from the '70s," Rock'n explains. "I can see how newer music might be interesting for other people, but if we did it, it would be like wearing a tuxedo or something." According to Rock'n, instead of copping the latest trends and trying to stay current, the band decided to concentrate on writing huge stadium-sized riffs and keeping things simple à la AC/DC. With an approach like this, it might be easy to simply lump these guys into the same shitpile as bands like the Darkness, whose tongue-in-cheek take on cock-rock has landed them on the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Not so, warns Rick. "Those guys are more of a Boston/Bad Company kind of thing," he says. "We're more like leather jackets and balls-to-the-walls rock."