ROCK • A • RAMA

Evidently this record is supposed to be some kind of dumb joke. It is. What would you think of a dance band that covers “Magic Carpet Ride” and "Heartbreaker" (Zep, not Funk) in metal-disco cadences with a nerdy vocalist who chants the lyrics with all the panache one can muster when reading from a cuecard? Not only that, but they ripoff the Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s “Last of the Teenage Idols/Vambo Marble Eye” on “The Beast is Calling” and end it in a skirl of bagpipe noise which appears to be a kind of backhanded tribute to poor dead Al.