Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
| Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert | ||||
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| Released | April 27, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Southern rock | |||
| Length | 46:59 | |||
| Label | Def American[1] | |||
| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | |||
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Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert is a studio album by American hard rock band Raging Slab, released in 1993 on CD and cassette, and digitally in 2009.[2][3][4] It was named after the third in a trilogy of "Chopper Cop" pulp fiction novels by Paul Ross;[5] and the video for its first single, "Anywhere But Here", included a cameo by actor Gary Coleman.[6]
Production
The album was recorded on a Pennsylvania farm, in a studio constructed by the band.[1] It was produced by Brendan O'Brien; the track "Lynne" features strings provided by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.[7]
Raging Slab had recorded three full albums between its 1989 debut and Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert, but due to record label issues did not release any of them.[8]
Reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [9] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[10] |
| Rock Hard | 9/10[11] |
In 2005, Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert was ranked number 395 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.[12] The Chicago Reader called the album "rife with fragments of the 70s: Lynyrd Skynyrd's southern blues boogie, Blue Oyster Cult's heavy rock hooks, Grand Funk Railroad's braggadocio, ZZ Top's riff-drenched electric blues, Bad Company's pure hard rock."[13] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "the absurdly rocking, two-guitars-plus-slide Slab combines about 85 genres into one stinking heap of divine something-or-other."[10]
The Washington Post wrote that "the Slab is a retro-boogie band, enlivened by [Greg] Strzempka's skill with melody and arrangement but utterly predictable in style."[14] Spin praised the album's devotion to funk, writing that "the band harks back to an age when heavy rock had more in common with black proto-funk such as the Meters than with the rhythmic regimentation of today's metal."[15]
Track listing
All songs written by Greg Strzempka.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Anywhere But Here" | 3:56 |
| 2. | "Weatherman" | 3:12 |
| 3. | "Pearly" | 3:36 |
| 4. | "So Help Me" | 4:13 |
| 5. | "What Have You Done" | 4:05 |
| 6. | "Take a Hold" | 5:02 |
| 7. | "Laughin' and Cryin'" | 3:19 |
| 8. | "Don't Worry About the Bomb" | 2:33 |
| 9. | "Lynne" | 4:32 |
| 10. | "Lord Have Mercy" | 3:52 |
| 11. | "National Dust" | 3:34 |
| 12. | "Ain't Ugly None" | 5:05 |
Personnel
- Greg Strzempka - vocals, guitar, slide, banjo, mandolin
- Elyse Steinman - slide guitar, vocals, lap steel
- Alec Morton - four stringed electric bass
- Mark Middleton - lead guitar, slide, vocals
- Paul Sheehan - drums, cymbals
Additional personnel
- Danny Frankel - smaller drums
- John Paul Jones - strings on "Lynne"
Credits
- Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien
- Engineered by Nick DiDia
- Mix Assistant by Danny Alonso
- Recorded at Big Mo Recording while it was parked at the Slab Farm
- Executive Producer: Rick Rubin
- Album Art by Raging Slab
- Band photos by Allison Dyer
- Other photos by the Electric Mystress
References
- 1 2 3 Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. p. 742.
- ↑ "Legacy Recordings Launches Major Digital Reissue Initiative". Sony.
- ↑ "Raging Slab Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ↑ Phillips, William (2009). Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music. Greenwood Press. p. 195.
- ↑ "Chopper Cop #3: Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert (1975)". Glorious Trash.
- ↑ "Video Cameo of the Week". Entertainment Weekly.
- ↑ "Album Reviews". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. May 8, 1993.
- ↑ "Raging Slab interview". Perfect Sound Forever.
- ↑ "Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert Raging Slab". AllMusic.
- 1 2 "Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert". Entertainment Weekly.
- ↑ Klemm, Oliver. "Rock Hard review". Rock Hard. No. 74. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
- ↑ Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten (in German). Rock Hard. 2005. p. 51. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.
- ↑ Dickinson, Chris. "Return of the monster boogie". Chicago Reader.
- ↑ Jenkins, Mark (July 23, 1993). "Monster Murk, Strum and Twang". The Washington Post.
- ↑ "Spins". Spin. Spin Media LLC. June 24, 1993.
External links
- Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert at Discogs (list of releases)