117 °

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117 °
Studio album by Izzy Stradlin

Publication
(s)

  • March 9, 1998 (Europe)
  • March 10, 1998 (USA)
  • March 23, 1998 (Germany)
Label (s) Geffen Records

Genre (s)

Rock and roll , hard rock , blues rock

Title (number)

14th

running time

44:27

production

Izzy Stradlin and Eddie Ashworth

Studio (s)

  • Rumbo Recording Studios
  • Matrix Studios
  • The Complex Caribbeans Sound
chronology
Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds Live (1993) 117 ° Ride On (1999)

117 ° is the second studio album by Izzy Stradlin , the former guitarist and founding member of Guns N 'Roses . It is his first album that was not released under a band name. In Germany it was published on March 23, in most of Europe on March 9, and in the USA on March 10, 1998.

background

After a long period of travel, Izzy Stradlin returned to Los Angeles in 1995, where he met his former bandmate Duff McKagan . Together with drummer Taz Bentley , who had just left his band Reverend Horton Heat , and Rick Richards , who had already been guitarist for Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds , they recorded eight songs within ten days. The album was recorded at Rumbo Recording Studios , Matrix Studios and The Complex Caribbeans Sound Studios. It was produced and mixed by Eddie Ashworth and Stradlin themselves. Stradlin chose not to advertise the album and did not go on tour.

Track list

  1. Ain't It a Bitch - 3:47
  2. Gotta Say - 3:15
  3. Memphis ( Chuck Berry ) - 2:56
  4. Old Hat - 3:17
  5. Bleedin - 3:15
  6. Parasite - 1:36
  7. Good Enough - 2:47
  8. 117 ° - 3:10
  9. Here Before You - 3:48
  10. Up Jumped the Devil ( Ronnie Dawson / Barney Koumis ) - 2:53
  11. Grunt - 4:27
  12. Freight Train - 3:25
  13. Methanol ( Rick Richards / Izzy Stradlin) - 3:27
  14. Surf Roach (Izzy Stradlin / Joe Isbell) - 2:24

Except for tracks 3, 10, 13 and 14, all songs were written by Izzy Stradlin. The tracks Memphis and Good Enough came about with the line-up of Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds before the band split up.

style

Stephan Görisch analyzed the individual songs in the Darmstädter Echo under the heading In the colorful garden of styles . He assigned Ain't It a Bitch and Bleedin to rhythm 'n' blues (with a strong tendency towards the Rolling Stones sound image). Gotta Say he described as country rock . To Here Before You , he remarked, " Here Before You promise with tinny low-fi intro a country number , but then rumbles Duff McKagans bass going on - and just as the ear hearty rock has been set, the guitar is back to that twang - Sound that Duane Eddy once created. ”He was reminded of the surfaris at Surf Roach . He identified guitars played in status quo fashion in Parasite and the theme song 117 ° . The cover version Memphis is to be understood as a “nostalgic memory” in a double sense, because on the one hand it is a hit from 1967, but also an old recording with the faded Ju Ju Hounds. For the rest of the songs Görisch found the words: "Rock played with almost squeaky-bone-dry guitars, which lies between Bo Diddley , Rockabilly and the pure beatless malt-free Merseybeat ."

reception

The Musikexpress described 117 ° as "relaxed and in the best sense undemanding" and "personable". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote, comparing the previous albums , that there were “no surprises”, but that it “rocked harder than most roots rock albums of the late '90s”.

source rating
Allmusic
Ultimate-Guitar.com

occupation

Additional musicians

  • Jimmy Ashhurst - bass, backing vocal (on tracks 3 and 7)
  • Charlie Quintana - drums (on tracks 3 and 7)
  • Eddie Ashworth - Mandolin (on tracks 2 and 5)
  • Steve Winstead - Backing Vocal (on track 9)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Longplay 13th week March 23-29 . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 13/1998 , March 23, 1998, program planner , p. [2] (loose attachment).
  2. ↑ Publications . In: Rock Hard . No. 130 , March 1998, News, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Izzy Stradlin 1998 Rolling Stone Interview ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Here Today ... Gone To Hell! Izzy Stradlin - 117 °. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Izzy Stradlin - Unleash the Hounds. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 25, 2018 ; accessed on October 25, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Stephan Görisch: In the colorful garden of styles. Izzy Stradlin returns with "117 °" . In: Darmstädter Echo . 1998.
  7. ↑ AG . In: Musikexpress . ( musikexpress.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  8. ↑ a b 117 ° - Izzy Stradlin | Songs, reviews, credits. In: AllMusic . Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Izzy Stradlin: 117 Degrees Review . ( ultimate-guitar.com [accessed October 25, 2018]).

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