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Artist: NRBQ |Label:Omnivore |Format: LP |Genre:Rock | LP condition: Mint | Jacket condition: Sealed
NRBQ Includes Ridin In My Car, It Feels Good & I Got A Rocket In My Pocket.
LP packaged in a gatefold sleeve with new liner notes.
All Hopped Up, an album of firsts for NRBQ! Released in the spring of 1977, withrecordings covering a two-year period from November 1974 to November 1976, All Hopped Up isNRBQs fifth album. But in many ways it showcases a new band with a new spirit, a newenergy, and a new approach. Its the first album with drummer Tom Ardolino, who joinedin August 1974 at the age of 19 and entered the recording studio just three month later.His joining signals the start of the edition of NRBQ that spanned almost 20 years whilegaining notoriety for their blockbuster live performances and classic recordings. Its the firstNRBQ album to feature compositions by Al Anderson, who contributes the wonderfulRidin In My Car and delivers inspired guitar solos over the course of the proceedings.Its also the first album with extensive blowing time for the Whole Wheat Horns and finally,its also the bands first album on its own Red Rooster label, with subsequent releasesincluding Kick Me Hard and Tiddlywinks, as well as the first-ever vinyl reissue of the Shaggslegendary Philosophy Of The World album in 1979. In addition to Terry and Joey kicking uptheir songwriting by several points on the Richter scale, All Hopped Up is the first album thatthey produced, and its also the first time NRBQ worked with engineer Tom Mark, who came onboard when the boys began recording and remixing at Bearsville Studios in November of 1976.This team would go on to helm classic albums like At Yankee Stadium, Kick Me Hard, Tiddlywinks,and She Sings, They Play. Along with all these noteworthy firsts, All Hopped Up also broke acresof new and fertile ground with its broad mix of musical styles. It Feels Good and Things to Youare poppier than anything previously released by NRBQ. While at the other end of thespectrum, Honey Hush heralds the first appearance on record of the deep, bluesy groovethat NRBQs new rhythm section would employ so effectively in its legendary live shows for decadesto come, and their version of I Got A Rocket In My Pocket rescues a gem first recorded byLouisvillian Jimmy Logsdon (as Jimmy Lloyd) from obscurity and breathes new life into it. The lattertwo tracks also contain piano solos by Terry that combine equal measures of authority andabandon. All of this adds up to a great album by a great band, free from and unfettered by anyconstraints imposed on them by a record company or outside producer, and clearly having a blastin the recording studio. More than 40 years after its initial release, the original version ofAll Hopped Up is finally widely available on CD and vinyl. It has outlived concurrent 1970smusical trends like punk rock, new wave, and disco, and it soundsfresher, livelier, and better than ever!
tracks are;
Ridin’In My Car
It Feels Good
Cecilia
I Got a Rocket in My Pocket
Call Him Off, Rogers
Doctor’s Wind
Things To You
Help Me, Somebody
Still In School
Honey Hush
QUeen TalkBonanza
That’s Alright
NEW SEALED LP set with “new” gatefold jacket!
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