Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
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| Released | April 27, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Southern rock | |||
| Length | 46:59 | |||
| Label | Def American[1] | |||
| Producer | Rick Rubin (exec.) Brendan O'Brien | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | StarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[2] |
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| Entertainment Weekly | B[3] |
| Rock Hard | 9/10[4] |
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.[5][6][7] It was named after the third in a trilogy of "Chopper Cop" pulp fiction novels by Paul Ross;[8] and the video for its first single, "Anywhere But Here", included a cameo by actor Gary Coleman.[9]
Production
[edit | edit source]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.[10]
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.[11]
Reception
[edit | edit source]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."[3] 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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Band members
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- Danny Frankel - smaller drums
- John Paul Jones - strings on "Lynne"
Credits
[edit | edit source]- 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
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert at Discogs (list of releases)
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