Atomic Rooster: Resurrection (3 CD Box Set) 2002

Resurrection is the Released February 12, 2002 compilation album from English progressive rock band Atomic Rooster. The album comes as a three-disc set, which features songs from Atomic Roooster (1970), Death Walks Behind You (1970) and In Hearing of Atomic Rooster (1971).                                                                                                                

The Resurrection of Atomic Rooster? A doomed project, in the literal sense. Founder member

Vincent Crane (aka Vincent Cheesman) swallowed four hundred Anadin tablets on a stormy St Valentine's Day
in 1989 while long-time drummer Paul Hammond overdosed on methadone in a London bedsit a couple of years later. Surviving sidemen are still active, rolling or tumbling as the shifting foundations of the music business dictate, and from time to time there are rumbles of proposed Rooster revivals or tribute bands. But Rooster without Vincent Crane is Hamlet without the Prince, the Pack without the Joker.
                                                                                           

"Now you see him , now you don't." Vincent's trickster fingerwork has just made the Ace of Diamonds

vanish before the blinking gaze of adolescent Brother P, already impressed with his friend's remake of King Kong as a 9.5 mm b&w dynanimation short, using a plasticine ape and a wrecked toy train.
Now this mercurial prankster starts to show off on the parlour piano. Thundering two-fisted music rolls over everything else they've ever heard, hooking them with its all-night drive, that relentless bass and underlying minor-key menace. Soon VC will find practicing boogie more compulsive than rehearsing the Disappearing Rabbit caper. It's 1962 and London is about to be hit by the Blues Boom...
                                                                            

Your reporter was on the Crane case very early, caught both the radiance and the fall-out. By '63 VC was moonlighting from music college, to hang around the London R&B scene, looking for support gigs

at the Marquee or the Flamingo. Graham Bond, that Crowleyite arch-druid of the Hammond organ, introduced him to the grooves of Jimmy Smith and John Patton, and gave him a template for his early jazz-blues bands. I tried to fit my poetry into his jazz via the Word Engine with Pete Brown and others, and promoted various long forgotten Crane operations - the Big Sound, the Freedom Riders, the Vincent Crane Combo.
                                                                                

Then we hit the cross-roads. I left the UK in 1968 for a four year spell in Canada. The Combo had

rapidly evolved into the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. In a matter of months, Vincent had co-written the incendiary number one hit Fire, had embarked on a hyperactive tour of the US and then plummeted down into the first of many chasmic depressions. In 1969, after another eventful American tour, he founded his first Atomic Rooster, with former Crazy World inmate Carl Palmer.
                                                                            

Between 1968 and 1972 we only met once, when Rooster supported Savoy Brown at Vancouver's

Kerrisdale Arena. ( Culture Court's Ojo remembers the gig, vividly if not favourably) Then, as his first marriage collapsed in the early seventies, Vincent started to rediscover old friends, and our lives overlapped once more, in a collage of grandiose projects and desperate stratagems.
                                                                              

Torquay, Christmas 1977. Vincent has just released Firefighter, a self-pressed Atomic Records single

satirising the first UK firemen's strike. He's convinced that the Callaghan government has conspired with the BBC to keep it off the radio, because if everybody heard it, its dynamic vibes would end the dispute. That's why we had to give it away in pubs.
                                                                                       

We also have to be silent while the Queen's Speech is on TV, because she has an important message especially for us. "We gotta sort things out in Northern Ireland. I'm going to take a band over, set up a

huge tour, entertain all the armies - troops, RUC, Provos, the whole fucking lot...that'll keep 'em quiet " Jean, his new wife/muse/roadie/minder/chief electrician catches my eye. Vin's ramping up to another big one. Like 1975, when he started bricking up the front door to keep the bailliffs out. Yet last night , sitting in with my local punk/blooze band, he was in total control, aware of everything happening on the stand, playing the audience as easily as he ravished the keyboard of the C3.
                                                                  

So this case-history of his best-known work abandons any pretences to objectivity. But a few time-capsule fragments might place these de luxe Akarma/Comet re-issues in a wider context.

 DISC 1 - ATOMIC ROOSTER  1970

 

1. Friday the 13th (Crane) - 3:31
2. And So to Bed (Crane) - 4:11
3. Broken Wings (Grun/Jerome) - 5:46
4. Before Tomorrow (Crane) - 5:50
5. Banstead (Crane/Graham/Palmer) - 3:33
6. S.L.Y. (Crane) - 4:56
7. Winter (Crane) - 6:59
8. Decline and Fall (Crane/Graham/Palmer) - 5:48

                                                                                        

Bonus Tracks

9. Play the Game (DuCann) - 4:46
10. VUG (Crane) – 4:34
11. Devil’s Answer – (DuCann) – 4:00

MP3 @ 320 Size: 128 MB
Flac  Size:  361 MB

 

 
DISC 2 - DEATH WALKS BEHIND YOU 1970

 

1. Death Walks Behind You (Cann/Crane) - 7:23
2. Vug (Crane) - 5:01
3. Tomorrow Night (Crane) - 3:58
4. Seven Streets (Cann) - 6:42
5. Sleeping for Years (DuCann) - 5:27
6. I Can't Take No More (Cann) - 3:32
7. Nobody Else (Crane) - 5:00
8. Gershatzer (Crane) - 7:57

Flac 470 MB (Extended Version)

 
DISC 3 - IN HEARING OF ...   1971

 

 

1. Breakthrough (Crane/Darnell) - 6:20
2. Break the Ice (Cann/DuCann) - 5:01
3. Decision/Indecision (Crane/Darnell) - 3:51
4. A Spoonful of Bromide Helps the Pulse Rate (Crane) - 4:41
5. Black Snake (Crane/Darnell) - 6:00
6. Head in the Sky (Cann) - 5:40
7. The Rock (Crane) - 4:33
8. The Price (Crane/Darnell) - 5:17

                                                                                       

Bonus Tracks

From B&C Single CB 157 p 1971
9. Devil's Answer - 3:27

Recorded Live At The Paris Theater, London July 27, 1972
10. Breakthrough (Crane/Parnell) - 6:10
11. Stand By Me (Crane) - 4:57
12. People You Can’t Trust (Crane) – 4:29
13. All In Satan’s Name (Crane/Parnell) –3:56
14. Devil’s Answer (DuCann) – 5:39

MP3 @ 320 Size: 165 MB
Flac  Size:  443 MB

                                                                                     

Nucleus: Vincent Crane - organ, piano, vocals
Fissile Elements: John Du Cann/Pete French/Chris Farlowe - lead vocals
John Du Cann/Steve Bolton/Johnny Mandala/John Mizarolli/Dave Gilmour/Bernie Torme - guitars
Carl Palmer/Paul Hammond/Rick Parnell - drums
Nick Graham -bass (first album only)
Plus occasional strings, brass, session singers

Atomic Rooster : Death Walks Behind You 1970

Atomic Rooster are a British rock band, originally formed by members of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, organist Vincent Crane and drummer Carl Palmer. Throughout their history, keyboardist Vincent Crane was the only constant member and wrote the majority of their material. Their history is defined by two periods: the early-mid-1970s and the early 1980s. The band went through radical style changes, but they are best known for the hard,/ progressive rock sound of their hit singles, "Tomorrow Night" (UK No. 11) and "Devil's Answer" (UK No. 4), both in 1971.

Death Walks Behind You is the second studio album by British rock band Atomic Rooster. It was their first album to receive US release, albeit in a different sleeve. It is commonly thought of as the archetypal Atomic Rooster album, recorded by the 'classic' line-up of Vincent Crane, John Du Cann and Paul Hammond. It is certainly, critically and commercially, their most successful album and often hailed as a classic of the progressive rock genre.

{ "Devil's Answer" might be the record for which Atomic Rooster are remembered, but it was their second album that posted warning that they were on the verge of creating something dazzling ,simply because the record itself is a thing of almost freakish beauty.

With only organist Vincent Crane surviving from the original lineup, and John Du Cann coming in to relieve him of some of the songwriting duties, Death Walks Behind You opens at a gallop and closes with a sprint. The title track is effectively spooky enough for any Hammer horror aficionado, all descending pianos and Psycho-screaming guitars, while "Gershatzer," a duet for organ and percussion, proves that new drummer Paul Hammond is more than a match for the departed Carl Palmer.

It's in between these dramatic bookends, however, that Rooster truly peak, with the stately "VUG," the pensive "Nobody Else," and the truly amazing "Tomorrow Night" (one of the scariest love songs ever let loose on the U.K. chart) all impressing. Crane's liner notes, incidentally, remind us that the album packed a different version of the hit, with an extended ending that descends into unimagined chaos ,a shocker for the pop kids, perhaps, but a fabulous bridge into the succeeding "7 Streets."

Possibly the best evidence for this being Atomic Rooster's masterpiece, however, comes not simply from what's on the album, but for what has been left off. An excellent repackaging and remastering job restores the original artwork in all its gatefold glory, but you'll search in vain for bonus tracks ,not because there were none to add, but because they simply wouldn't fit. Sit through Death Walks Behind You, after all, and you really won't need any more surprises. }
 AllMusic Review by Dave Thompson

Personnel

    John Du Cann : guitars, lead vocals, bass
    Vincent Crane: Hammond organ, backing vocals, piano
    Paul Hammond : drums, percussion

TRACKS

01. Death Walks Behind You (Du Cann, Crane) 7:28
02. Vug (Crane) 4:57
03. Tomorrow Night (Crane) 3:56
04. 7 Streets (Du Cann) 6:40
05. Sleeping for Years (Du Cann) 5:24
06. I Can't Take No More (Du Cann) 3:32
07. Nobody Else (Crane, Du Cann) 4:58
08. Gershatzer (Crane) 7:58

DEATH WALKS BEHIND YOU

Death Walks Behind You,
Death Walks Behind You,
Death Walks Behind You,
Death Walks Behind You.

Lock The Door, Switch The Light.
You'll Be So Afraid Tonight.
Hide Away From The Bad,
Count The Nine Lives That You Had.
Start To Scream, Shout For Help,
There Is No One By Your Side.

To Forget What Is Done,
Seems So Hard To Carry On.
Luck Is False, That It's Near,
Bring Yourself To Understand,
It's Your Fate, Or What's Cast,
Point a Finger At Yourself.

Death Walks Behind You,
Death Walks Behind You,
Death Walks Behind You,

Lock Your Door, Switch The Light,
You'll Be so Afraid Tonight.
Hide Away From The Bad,
Count The…
Start To Scream, Shout For Help,
There Is No One By Your Side.

To Forget What Is Done,
Seems So Hard To Carry On.
Seems So Hard To Carry On.
(Death Walks Behind You.)
Carry On.
(Death Walks Behind You.)
Death Walks Behind You.
Death Walks Behind You.

Flac (Extended Version) Size:  470 MB

Atomic Rooster : IV ( The USA Version ) 1973

This is the USA Version , NOT AVAILABLE ON CD

Dadicade to my old friend : George Gallagher
Atomic Rooster were an English rock band , formed by ex-Crazy World of Arthur Brown members. Throughout its history , keyboardist Vincent Crane was the only constant member , and wrote the majority of their material . Their history is defined by two periods , in the early 1970s and the early 1980s . Their genre in music is difficult to define , since they went through radical changes in very short times during their life . However , their best-known era represented a more hard rock/progressive rock sound , exemplified by their only hit singles , "Tomorrow Night" (UK no. 11) and "The Devil's Answer" (UK no. 4) , both in 1971 .

Steve Bolton left at the end of 1972 , and was replaced by John Goodsall , under the name Johnny Mandala . They release the album Nice 'n' Greasy in 1973 with the single "Save Me" , a re-working of "Friday the 13th" . This time , it was in a complete funk mood
Crane then found Chris Farlowe , at that time in Colosseum , and he took the place of Pete French .



U.S. version

1. All Across the Country (Crane) - 5:09
2. Save Me (Crane) - 3:14
3. Voodoo in You (Avery) - 7:03
4. Moods (Crane) - 4:24
5. Take One Toke (Crane) - 4:59
6. Can't Find a Reason (Crane) - 4:25
7. Ear in the Snow (Crane) - 6:12
8. What You Gonna D" (Farlowe) - 5:25



Musicians

Chris Farlowe: vocals
Vincent Crane: Hammond organ, electric piano, piano, ARP synthesizer
Johnny Mandala: electric guitar
Ric Parnell: drums, percussion

SAVE ME

Save Me! Save Me! Save Me! Save Me!
Wake Up In The Night, Stare Into The Dark.
You Can Feel Your Fear Tearing At Your Heart.
Trying To Lock The Door, There Is No Escape.
I'll Be Watching You, Every Move You Make.
Someone Please, Please Help Me.
No One Will Save You,Though They Try.
Someone Please, Please Help Me.
Everyone's Lonely When They Die,
Everyone's Lonely When They Die.
No One In The World's Gonna Love You - Save Me!
No One In The World Will Need You - Save Me!
No One In The World Will Kiss You - Save Me!
No One In The World Will Love You - Save Me!
Save Me! Save Me! Save Me! Save Me!
Walking Down The Street,Footsteps Close Behind.
Dare Not Turn Your Head,Don't Know What You'll Find.
Trying To Shout For Help,Your Words Turn To Dust.
Looking For A Friend, No One You Can Trust.
Someone Please, Please Help Me.
No One Will Save You,Though They Try.
Someone Please, Please Help Me.
Everyone's Lonely When They Die,
Everyone's Lonely When They Die.
No One In The World Will Love You - Save Me!
No One In The World Will Kiss You - Save Me!
No One In The World Will Hug You - Save Me!
No One In The World Will Want You - Save Me!
Save Me! Save Me! Save Me! Save Me!


Size : 95,5 MB
Format : Vinyl LP
Label : Elektra REcords
Made in New York : 10023
Recorded at Trident & Command Studios in London
Bitrate 320

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