Pinstriping Dutchman's Coffina: Von Dutch Tribute

AMG Review of Pinstriping Dutchman's Coffina: Von Dutch Tribute

Patrick Kennedy
All Music Guide

Although originally recorded in 1993, and intended as Zeke's debut album, it languished in storage for over five years before it saw release in 1999. Pinstriping Dutchman's Coffina is ostensibly a paean to the late Von Dutch, who, along with Ed Roth and Robert Williams, helped firmly established the aesthetics of custom car culture in the 1950s and '60s. The artwork certainly spells ribute, but otherwise the album is simply a terse, rough-hewn ock album a great deal more loose-legged than later recordings in Zeke's catalog. By all means, the songs betray the band's early penchant for high-performance cars and bikes -- not to mention drugs, considering titles like "Galaxy 500" and "302 Cubic Inch V-8 Blues." And though most tracks chug swiftly by, this disc clearly shows the band developing from its slower-tempo, garage rock roots toward its ultimate ascension to lightning-fast, speed-freak punk ock & roll avatars.