Hardware (album)
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Publication |
18th February 1981 |
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Ariola , Arista
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Title (number) |
9 |
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37 min 33 s |
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Fernando von Arb and Chris von Rohr ( Krokus incorrectly printed on the sound carriers as the producer) |
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Studio (s) |
Roundhouse Studios, London ( Great Britain ) |
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Hardware is the fifth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus . It contains the single releases " Rock City ", " Smelly Nelly " and "Winning Man".
background
Hardware picks up stylistically and musically where its predecessor Metal Rendez-Vous left off. With the same line-up as the previous album, a no-frills hard rock album was recorded at Roundhouse Studios in London . With this work, Krokus consolidated the position in the rock and metal circus that had been established by their predecessor. With the singles " Rock City ", " Smelly Nelly " and "Winning Man", the Industrial Strength EP also released in Great Britain and the video clips for "Rock City", "She's Got Everything" and "Easy" produced at the legendary Hammersmith Odeon in London Rocker ”in the back, hardware achieved gold status in Switzerland. But the album was also received with goodwill in other countries: In Germany it reached number 56 in the charts, in Sweden number 50, in Great Britain number 44 and in Austria even number 16. In addition to “Rock City”, “Easy Rocker”, “ Winning Man ”and“ Celebration ”also represent other band classics that still appear regularly in the live set today. But with the hardware , the first cracks also formed in the band structure. The long-term drug problem and often unreliable lead guitarist Tommy Kiefer was fired immediately after the album was released. With Mandy Meyer , the band immediately presented a replacement who did all the hardware tour through Europe and North America, including with Mother's Finest , Nazareth , Ted Nugent , Rainbow , AC / DC , Pat Travers , Blackfoot , Blue Öyster Cult , Iron Maiden and April Wine graduated. However, Meyer did not stay with Krokus for long, and so there was another line-up change before the recording of the next studio album One Vice at a Time : Fernando von Arb took over the lead guitar and the Swiss Mark Kohler was presented for the rhythm guitar. Hardware is the last album with founding member Tommy Kiefer on guitar and the single "Smelly Nelly" is his last songwriter contribution for Krokus. According to information from Chris von Rohr, the album was not produced by the whole band, as can be read on the various sound carriers, but only by Fernando von Arb and himself. In contrast to the majority of the published versions of Hardware , a special US American version of the LP has a significantly different track list. In May 2014, Hardware was re-released by the Rock Candy label .
Track list
All CD and MC versions as well as most versions of the LP
- Celebration (3:24) (Fernando von Arb / Chris von Rohr )
- Easy Rocker (5:27) (from Arb / from Rohr)
- Smelly Nelly (3:38) (Tommy Kiefer / von Arb / von Rohr)
- Mr. 69 (3:01) (from Arb / von Rohr)
- She's Got Everything (3:57) (by Arb / by Rohr)
- Burning Bones (3:34) (by Arb / von Rohr / Marc Storace )
- Rock City (4:43) (by Arb / by Rohr)
- Winning Man (5:33) (from Arb / von Rohr)
- Mad Racket (4:00) (by Arb / by Rohr)
Special US version of the LP
- Burning Bones (3:34) (from Arb / von Rohr / Storace)
- She's Got Everything (3:57) (by Arb / by Rohr)
- Winning Man (5:33) (from Arb / von Rohr)
- Smelly Nelly (3:38) (Kiefer / von Arb / von Rohr)
- Easy Rocker (5:27) (from Arb / from Rohr)
- Mr. 69 (3:01) (from Arb / von Rohr)
- Rock City (4:43) (by Arb / by Rohr)
- Mad Racket (4:00) (by Arb / by Rohr)
- Celebration (3:24) (by Arb / by Rohr)
useful information
- A newly recorded version of "Winning Man" was also released on the 1988 album Heart Attack .
- "Easy Rocker" and "Celebration" were used in the 1981 film Mad Foxes - Fire on Wheels .
- "Mr. 69 “is printed on the special US-American LP as Mr. Sixty-Nine .
- A hitherto unreleased song called "Love Me Like an Alligator" was recorded by hardware during production , but was not used for the album.
occupation
- Singing : Marc Storace
- Lead guitar : Tommy Kiefer
- Rhythm guitar : Fernando from Arb
- Bass , percussion : Chris von Rohr
- Drums : Freddy Steady
Individual evidence
- ↑ literra.info - Krokus - Hardware . Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ↑ a b c krokusonline.seven49.net - Chronological - Hardware . Last accessed on May 7, 2013.
- ↑ hitparade.ch - Krokus - Hardware Retrieved on May 17, 2013.
- ↑ bernerzeitung.ch - 50 years of Bernese rock - No Blues Thommy . Retrieved February 12, 2013.
- ↑ Chris von Rohr: You want to rock dogs forever: My trip through the rock jungle , 1991, p. 200, 221–222.
- ↑ krokusonline.seven49.net - Musical (Instruments) - Fernando von Arb . Retrieved March 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b musicstack.com - Krokus - Hardware . Last accessed on May 7, 2013.
- ↑ rockcandyrecords.com - News . Retrieved August 3, 2014.
- ↑ imdb.com - Mad Foxes Fire on Wheels (1981) . Retrieved February 12, 2013.
- ↑ Chris von Rohr: You want to rock dogs forever: My trip through the rock jungle , 1991, p. 191.