Pure Rock Fury

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Released March 13, 2001 Length 61:24 Release date 13 March 2001 Genres Stoner rock, Hard rock		Recorded September 2000 Artist Clutch Label Atlantic Records

Producer Uncle Punchy, Machine, Clutch Pure Rock Fury (2001) Live at the Googolplex (2002) Similar Clutch albums, Stoner rock albums

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Pure Rock Fury is the fifth full-length album by the band Clutch and it was released on March 13, 2001, and is the only release with Atlantic Records. The album liner notes state that it is dedicated to Ronnie True.

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Album Information

This album features guest appearances by Scott "Wino" Weinrich from Spirit Caravan, Leslie West from Mountain, and Dan and Joe from Sixty Watt Shaman, highlighting the bands habit of having musical contemporaries play on their albums.

The album yielded a minor hit with "Careful With That Mic...", a Rap Metal parody, which artist CMJ complimented for its clever rhymes, which then adds the genre Rap Metal to bands already long list of styles on their albums. The song "Immortal" was originally released with different lyrics and arrangement as the song "Baby I'm Down" by Leslie West on his debut album Mountain. Clutch rearranged it and changed the lyrics somewhat, and it features a guitar solo by the original author, Leslie West, on it, who then had his band Mountain cover this Clutch version on their Mystic Fire album the following year.

Clutch vocalist Neil Fallon has stated that of all Clutch's albums, this is his least favourite.

In popular culture

The song "Immortal" is featured in the video game Hitman: Contracts. The song "Pure Rock Fury" is featured in the video game MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.

Track listing

All songs written by Clutch except where noted.

Personnel

Neil Fallon– vocals, guitars on "Brazenhead", organ on "Careful With That Mic..."

Tim Sult - guitar

Dan Maines - bass

Jean-Paul Gaster - drums

Scott "Wino" Weinrich - Guitar solo on "Red Horse Rainbow" (left channel), guitars on "Brazenhead"

Heartbeat - congas on "Frankenstein" and "Brazenhead", additional vocals on "Brazenhead"

Leslie West - guitars and additional vocals on "Immortal"

Dan Kerzwyck (Sixty Watt Shaman) - additional vocals on "Sinkemlow"

Joe Selby (Sixty Watt Shaman) - guitar solo on "Frankenstein" (right channel)

Machine - additional vocals on "Careful With That Mic..."

Production

All songs Produced by Lawrence "Uncle Punchy" Packer:
"Open Up the Border" produced by Machine and Uncle Punchy
"Careful With That Mic..." & "Drink to the Dead" produced by Machine
"Immortal" produced by Jason Corsaro & Leslie West

All songs Recorded by Larry Packer at Uncle Punchy Studios, Silverspring, MD except:
"Careful With That Mic..." recorded by Machine at IIWII, Weehawken, NJ, The Machine Shop, Hoboken, NJ and Uncle Punchy Studios
"Immortal" recorded by Jason Corsaro at Show Place Studios, Dover, NJ

All songs mixed by Jason Corsaro at Show Place Studios, Dover, NJ except:
"Careful With That Mic...", "Red Horse Rainbow" & "Drink to the Dead" mixed by Uncle Punchy

All songs Engineered by Ben Elliott and Assisted by Henry "Earthquake" Diaz, except:
"Careful With That Mic...", "Drink to the Dead" and "Spacegrass"

Live portions of "Smoke Banshee", "Frankenstein" & "Brazenhead" recorded by Larry Packer at The 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., September 2000
F.O.H. engineer: Shawn (Gus) Vitale

All songs mastered by Larry Packer at Uncle Punchy Studios

Executive Producers: Neil Fallon, Jean-Paul Gaster, Dan Maines, Tim Sult

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Singles

Songs

1American Sleep4:19
2Pure Rock Fury3:22
3Open Up the Border3:45

References

Pure Rock Fury Wikipedia

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