Rites of Passage
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| Live album by Roger Hodgson | ||||
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Publication |
1997 |
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August 2, 1996, |
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| Label (s) | Unichord, Voiceprint | |||
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
62:21 (CD) |
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| occupation | see below | |||
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Karuna Hodgson |
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Rites of Passage (sometimes abbreviated to ROP in the album cover ) is the first live album by British pop / rock musician Roger Hodgson , the former founding member of the British rock band Supertramp . Ten years after the studio album “ Hai Hai ” it was released in 1997 and sold quite well in Germany and Switzerland - otherwise sluggishly.
description
"Rites of Passage" is the result of the mini-tour in the summer of 1996, during which Hodgson gave several concerts in California with seven guest musicians, including Supertramp member John Helliwell and Roger's son Andrew Hodgson. The live album was recorded on August 2, 1996 at the last concert of the tour in the Miners Foundry , an event complex in Nevada City , California ( USA ) with several halls - for weddings, conferences and concerts, for example.
In contrast to the previous studio album "Hai Hai", on the live album "Rites of Passage" the saxophone typical of Supertramp, played by Helliwell, emerges a little more strongly, synthesizers have been banned and the music tends more towards progressive pop rock again. Style.
On "Rites of Passage" you can find the newly recorded songs "Take the Long Way Home", "The Logical Song" and "Give a Little Bit", three works from the famous Supertramp era, and "In Jeopardy" from the solo album " In the Eye of the Storm " (1984) five new (previously unreleased) songs by Roger Hodgson: "Every Trick in the Book", "Showdown", "Don't You Want to Get High?" "Red Lake" and "Time Waits for No One". “Showdown” became part of the album “ Open the Door ” three years later and “Don't You Want to Get High?” And “Time Waits for No One” are often counted among the best works on the live album by critics. In addition there is (the also new) "Melancholic", which was written by Andrew Hodgson, who plays the song on the piano and sings himself. Furthermore, the songs "No Colors" and "Smelly Feat", written by Mikail Graham, are part of the live album, which she plays on a guitar and sings herself.
The album cover shows the painting The Accolade ( The Accolade , 1901) by the English painter Edmund Blair Leighton (1853-1922).
Three years after "Rites of Passage" the studio album Open the Door was released .
Song list
"Rites of Passage" contains 12 songs. The lengths given below refer to a CD version ("UNIVP001CD") of the disk that is 62:21 minutes long. The songs were written and sung by Hodgson (although songs 5, 10 and 12 were written by him, as in Supertramp times they were named in the album booklet "Hodgson / Davies ") and sung, with the exception of those with a corresponding note below are:
- Every Trick in the Book - 5:54
- In Jeopardy - 5:13
- Showdown - 4:45
- Don't you want to get high? - 4:07
- Take the Long Way Home - ROP - 4:27
- Red Lake - 5:14
- Melancholic - 4:31 - Music, lyrics and lead voice: Andrew Hodgson
- Time Waits for No One - 9:07
- No Colors - 4:56 - Music, lyrics and lead voice: Mikail Graham
- The Logical Song - ROP - 3:47
- Smelly Feat - 6:03 - Music, lyrics and lead voice: Mikail Graham
- Give a Little Bit - ROP - 4:17
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Charts
Rites of Passage placed in the German album charts at position 40 and at position 46 in the Swiss charts .
occupation
The musicians in the live album "Rites of Passage" are - partly with song numbers in "()":
- Roger Hodgson - 12-string guitar (1, 4, 6, 8, 12), guitar (9, 11), piano (2–3, 5, 10), vocals (1–6, 8, 10, 12)
Guest musicians (in alphabetical order):
- Jeff Daniel - Hammond (1–2, 5–6, 10–12), keyboards (1–2, 5–6, 8–10, 12), percussion (6, 8–11), backing vocals (1–2, 5–6, 10, 12)
- Mikail Graham - guitar (1–4, 6, 8–12), keyboard (5, 8), harmonica (5), percussion (5), vocals (9, 11), hi-vocals (1–6, 10 , 12)
- John Helliwell - percussion (3), saxophones (1–2, 5–6, 8, 10–12), backing vocals (2–6, 10)
- Andrew Hodgson - didgeridoo (8), piano (7), harmonica (9), percussion (8), drums (1–6, 9–12), vocals (7)
- Josh Newman - cello (7)
- Terry Riley - Tambura (8), backing vocals (8)
- Rich Stanmyre - bass guitar (1–6, 8–12), backing vocals (1–6, 11–12)
Recording and production
The live album "Rites of Passage" was completed in California , USA : mixing took place in Rogers Unicorn Studio ( Nevada City ), and mastering was done at OceanView Digital Mastering ( Oak Park ).
- Producer : Karuna Hodgson
- Live Recording Engineer : Biff Dawes (Miners Foundry)
- Live Sound Engineer: Harry Andronis (Miners Foundry)
- Feedback : Biggles (Song 1)
- Mixdown -Toningenieur: Brian Foraker (Unicorn Studio)
- Mastering Engineer: Joe Innkeeper (Oceanview)
- Assistant engineers: Ramòn Bretòn
- Artistic direction and design: Daniel Clark
- Layout : Sunja Park
- Photographs : Cole Thompson
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Miners Foundry - Cultural Center , on minersfoundry.org
- ↑ Record date of the live album according to The Biography… , on johnhelliwell.com
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE1 + CH - DE2