The Rich Don't Rock
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1989 / January 8, 2013 (re-release) |
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1987/1988 |
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| Label (s) | Atlantic Records | |||
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10 (LP, MC) / 12 (CD) |
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running time |
39:08 (LP, MC) / 47:47 (CD) |
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Tony Platt |
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The Rich Don't Rock is the only published music album by the German hard rock band Vamp , which was published in 1989 by Atlantic Records .
background
The band Vamp came from Bonn . It was founded in 1985 by guitarist Ricolf Cross, bassist Oliver Scholz and drummer Dicki Fliszar, and was joined by American singer Tom Bellini in 1986. The group recorded a demo tape that contained the tracks Lonely Nights , What About Love , Wasted Time and Down And Dirty and earned them a contract with the American music label Atlantic Records . The band recorded their debut album under the direction of producer Tony Platt, who had already worked as a sound engineer for Led Zeppelin and AC / DC (Highway to Hell, Back in Black), at Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum ( Netherlands ) and at Point Studio in London ( UK ) on. The track "All Night" contains a drum solo with a length of 1:23 minutes. The keyboard parts included on the album were played by Steve Glover.
Atlantic Records' Peter Price thought Renegade had the potential to be a hit, so commissioned a remix that was performed by Andy MacPherson. Price liked this remix so much that he had MacPherson remix all of the tracks on the album. This work took three months and could not be supervised by the producer of the album, who had other obligations.
The band did not agree with the result, so that apart from the tracks Renegade, All Night, Bleeding and Talk is Cheap, all other tracks on the album were remixed one more time, this time by Kenny Jones. On April 7, 1989 the song The Rich Don't Rock was released as a single and maxi single with the MacPherson mix . On the back was the song Why, Why, Why (later called Why on the CD version of the album ) in the mix by Tony Platt, the maxi single also contained the track Shout , whose sound mix came from Kenny Jones.
The album was released in September 1989 and received positive reviews. The group promoted their album in the opening act of Bonfire 's European tour , around 30,000 units were sold worldwide. The sales of the album were insufficient for Atlantic Records and Vamp lost the record deal.
reception
Götz Kühnemund wrote for Rock Hard that, with The Rich Don't Rock , the Bonn quartet had delivered “a first-class record” that “easily withstood international comparisons” and proved “that European party metal doesn't always have to sound stiff and artificial” . All ten songs (the CD also contains two bonus tracks) went "quickly in the ear" and lived "primarily from Ricolf's powerful guitar work and Tom's voluminous lead voice, which would make some established singing artists green with envy". Stylistically, the group is reminiscent of “Heavy Pettin 'from Britain”. Kühnemund also wrote that one could hope that Vamp would expect a better fate, because "the boys should" - if you give them the opportunity - "be good for a few surprises". 8.5 points (out of a possible 10) are "a promising start".
The magazine Musikexpress wrote that “this imaginative and varied debut album” draws its strength “more from the stubbornness of the band to stubbornly push their way through lousy days than from the flawless production by Tony Platt.” And if, “what would be conceivable the commercial star of Vamp "really rises," the next album has to be called "Now The Rich Can Rock". "
The reviewer Carsten Baar, editor of Hardline Magazine, wrote in a review of the album: Vamp is, to his knowledge, "the first German hard rock band" that managed to "sign directly with an American label." looking at the disc, one can only say that this was no wonder. The group sounds "more American than any American band" on The Rich Don't Rock . One blast chases the next on this disc, starting with the opener Heartbreak, Heartache and the absolute hammer song The Rich Don't Rock to the final Why . If you ask yourself why Vamp couldn't have made it, there is only one answer: Because there are no ballads on the album. It is "rocked from front to back." Only Renegade is a little quieter and has a certain southern flair, but this is not a typical ballad for the charts either.
Track list
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| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
| 1. | Heartbreak, Heartache | vamp | 4:16 |
| 2. | Like I want | vamp | 2:45 |
| 3. | The Rich Don't Rock | vamp | 3:45 |
| 4th | Love Games | vamp | 3:08 |
| 5. | Renegade | vamp | 4:35 |
| 6th | All nite | vamp | 5:00 |
| 7th | Lonely Nights | vamp | 3:30 |
| 8th. | Stand by Me | Vamp, Bernie Marsden | 4:50 |
| 9. | Bleeding | vamp | 3:00 |
| 10. | Talk is cheap | vamp | 4:30 |
| 11. | Shout ( bonus track of the CD edition) | vamp | 4:07 |
| 12. | Why (bonus track of the CD edition) | vamp | 4:40 |
| Overall length: | 47:47 | ||
New edition
In January 2013, the record company Divebomb Records announced that they had reissued the album in a deluxe version. The new edition was remastered by guitarist Ricolf Krückel , and the album was expanded to include various bonus tracks. A second CD included seven professionally produced demo recordings of The Rich Don't Rock and eight from the never-released second vamp album, One Smack Killer .
Web links
- The Rich Don't Rock at Allmusic (English). Retrieved August 14, 2011.