The guitar licks, riffs and solos on this album are some of The Hellacopters best. If you can imagine a well produced meld of MC5's Back in the USA and Kiss's Dressed to Kill you pretty much have the overall vibe of this album. Having grown up with late '60s and early '70s hard rock, I find Grande Rock the most enjoyable of my Hellacopters albums. It invites repeated listenings moreso than any of their other albums I own.

On Grande Rock you can hear references to early Kiss as well as to Blackfoot, and it's all spiced up with a raw approach. Sometimes there's almost a punk rock feeling. This album indicates what's to come later down The Hellacopter road.