Big rocks
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January 27, 2017 |
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| Label (s) | Sony Music | ||||
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13 (+ hidden track) |
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running time |
50 min 37 s |
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Studio (s) |
Montechristo Studios, Solothurn ( Switzerland ) |
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Big Rocks is the first cover album and a total of eighteenth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus . It contains the singles " The House of the Rising Sun " and " Rockin 'in the Free World ".
background
Following the releases of the last studio album Dirty Dynamite and the last live album Long Stick Goes Boom: Live from da House of Rust , things got quiet around Krokus in 2016. After extensive tour and festival activities in 2013 and 2014, in which Flavio Mezzodi was confirmed as a permanent band member behind the drums, and numerous other festival appearances in 2015, the formation only played a single festival appearance at the Riverside Open Air in Aarburg, Switzerland in 2016 . Without leaking any information to the public, front man Marc Storace decided to record a cover album for the three guitarists Fernando von Arb, Mandy Meyer and Mark Kohler, bassist Chris von Rohr and drummer Flavio Mezzodi during this time. The aim of the band was, on the one hand, to pay tribute to musical role models whose roots lie predominantly in the 1960s and, on the other hand, to interpret their classic songs in such a way that they unmistakably sound like crocus. For this reason, the decision was made not to put an AC / DC cover on the album, since Krokus and AC / DC are musically and stylistically in a very similar spectrum. Only with the release of the first single, a cover of The Animals interpretation of the American folk song " The House of the Rising Sun ", in November 2016 did specific information about the album reach the public. The work, in turn produced by bassist and band leader Chris von Rohr and baptized Big Rocks , was finally released at the end of January 2017 and contains, including the hidden track, a total of 13 cover versions plus a new recording of the band's own classic "Back-Seat Rock 'n' Roll ". It should be noted, however, that the introductory Black Sabbath cover "NIB" does not include the complete song, but is only an intro for the album. In addition, the concluding hidden track is an unpolished, hardly edited cover of the blues classic "Baby, Please Don't Go" by Big Joe Williams, recorded live in the studio . Although cover albums are often rated critically, Big Rocks was able to seamlessly build on past successes. Thanks to “The House of the Rising Sun” and the second single, the Neil Young cover “Rockin 'in the Free World” with video clips, the album was able to place in several European charts. In Switzerland, like Rock the Block , Hoodoo and Dirty Dynamite before, it was number 1 in the album charts. In Germany the cover album climbed to number 31 and in Austria to number 36. The album also entered the two Belgian chart lists: It reached number 97 in the Walloon charts and number 137 in the Flemish charts. After the album was released, Krokus played two co-headlining appearances with Gotthard in German-speaking Switzerland at the beginning of March 2017 , first in the Bernexpo festival hall in Bern and then in the Samsung Hall in Dübendorf near Zurich . Another very well-known Swiss rock band, Shakra , performed as a special guest in the opening act. Shortly afterwards they played two more concerts with Gotthard in the Salle Metropole in Lausanne , but without Shakra in the opening act. In May 2017, Krokus made a concert trip to Malta - the home country of singer Marc Storace. The most successful rock band from Switzerland will then attend many festival dates in the summer. Among other things, she will perform on the Loreley open-air stage of the RockFels Festival in St. Goarshausen , at the Rock The Ring Festival in Hinwil, at the Norway Rock Festival in Kvinesdal , at the Bang Your Head Open Air in Balingen , at the Skogsrojet Festival in Rejmyre, Sweden and at the Alcatraz Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium . A concert tour to the USA may also be undertaken in the fall. Big Rocks is the first album since the live release Alive And Screamin ' in 1986, when the band Krokus has a constant line-up compared to the previous album .
Track list
- NIB (1:16) ( Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , Bill Ward )
- Tie Your Mother Down (3:43) ( Brian May )
- My Generation (2:54) ( Pete Townshend )
- Wild Thing (3:52) ( Chip Taylor )
- The House of the Rising Sun (4:21) (Traditional American folk song, rearranged by Alan Price in 1964 )
- Rockin 'in the Free World (3:49) ( Neil Young , Frank Sampredo)
- Gimme Some Lovin ' (3:33) ( Spencer Davis , Muff Winwood , Steve Winwood )
- Whole Lotta Love (4:27) ( Robert Plant , Jimmy Page , John Paul Jones , John Bonham , Willie Dixon )
- Summertime Blues (3:32) ( Eddie Cochran , Jerry Capeheart)
- Born to Be Wild (3:53) ( Mars Bonfire )
- Quinn the Eskimo (3:35) ( Bob Dylan )
- Jumpin 'Jack Flash (4:17) ( Mick Jagger , Keith Richards )
- Back-Seat Rock 'n' Roll (3:19) (Fernando von Arb, Chris von Rohr , Jürg Naegeli)
- Baby, Please Don't Go (2:03) ( Big Joe Williams ) (Hidden Track)
Cover versions
- “NIB” is a Black Sabbath cover version. The song was originally released on the 1970 album Black Sabbath .
- "Tie Your Mother Down" is a Queen cover version. The song was originally released on the 1976 album A Day at the Races .
- "My Generation" is a The Who cover version. The song was originally released in 1965 on the album of the same name, My Generation .
- "Wild Thing" is a The Wild Ones cover version. The song was originally released on the 1965 single Wild Thing .
- "The House of the Rising Sun" is a The Animals cover version based on a traditional American folk song. The song was first released in 1933 by Ashley and Foster under the name "Rising Sun Blues" as a single.
- "Rockin 'in the Free World" is a Neil Young cover version. The song was originally released on the album Freedom in 1989.
- "Gimme Some Lovin '" is a The Spencer Davis Group cover version. The song was originally released in 1966 under the name "Gimme Some Loving" on the single Gimme Some Loving of the same name .
- "Whole Lotta Love" is a Led Zeppelin cover version. The song was originally released on Album II in 1969 .
- "Summertime Blues" is an Eddie Cochran cover version. The song was originally released as the b-side on the single Love Again in 1958 .
- "Born to Be Wild" is a Steppenwolf cover version. The song was originally released on the 1968 album Steppenwolf .
- "Quinn the Eskimo" is a Manfred Mann cover version. The song was originally released in 1968 under the name "Mighty Quinn" on the single Mighty Quinn of the same name .
- "Jumpin 'Jack Flash" is a The Rolling Stones cover version. The song was originally released in 1968 on the single Jumpin 'Jack Flash of the same name .
- "Baby, Please Don't Go" is a Big Joe Williams cover version. The song was originally released on the 1935 single Baby, Please Don't Go .
useful information
- Actually, the album should also contain “Rock and roll part 1”, a cover version by Gary Glitter . The song was recorded but removed from the song list shortly before the album was released due to the child abuse scandal by Gary Glitter. However, the song was played live at the concerts in Bern, Dübendorf and Lausanne in March 2017.
- "Back-Seat Rock 'n' Roll" - listed as "Backseat Rock 'n' Roll" on the tracklist - is a new recording of the song that was originally released in 1980 on the album Metal Rendez-Vous .
- "Born to Be Wild" is a remake of the cover version that was originally released in 2010 on the Hoodoo album .
occupation
- Singing : Marc Storace
- Lead guitar , rhythm guitar, vocals: Fernando von Arb
- Lead guitar: Mandy Meyer
- Rhythm guitar : Mark Kohler
- Bass : Chris von Rohr
- Drums : Flavio Mezzodi
Guest musician
- Singing: Mark Fox, Dennis Ward
- Richter Harmonica : Marco Pantherra
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b krokusonline.seven49.net - News - Big Rocks Release Date . Last accessed on April 18, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d krokusonline.seven49.net - Tour . Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ↑ zueriost.ch - Chris von Rohr on cover songs and getting older . Retrieved March 3, 2020.
- ↑ a b hitparade.ch - Music - Interviews - The big hole is coming soon - Interview with Krokus . Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ↑ a b c hitparade.ch - Music - Krokus - Big Rocks . Last accessed on April 18, 2017.