Pure Rock Fury

Pure Rock Fury
Studio album by
Clutch
ReleasedMarch 13, 2001 (2001-03-13)
RecordedSeptember 2000
Venue9:30 Club (Washington, D.C.)
StudioUncle Punchy Studios (Silverspring, MD)
IIWII (Weehawken, NJ)
The Machine Shop (Hoboken, NJ)
Show Place Studios (Dover, NJ)
GenreStoner rock, hard rock, blues rock, funk metal
Length61:24
LabelAtlantic
ProducerUncle Punchy, Machine, Clutch
Clutch chronology
Jam Room
(1999) 		Pure Rock Fury
(2001) 		Live at the Googolplex
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Kerrang![2]
NME8/10[3]

Pure Rock Fury is the fifth album by American rock band Clutch, released on March 13, 2001, and is their only album release with Atlantic Records. The album liner notes state that it is dedicated to Ronnie True.[4]

Album information

This album features guest appearances by Scott "Wino" Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan), Leslie West (Mountain), and Dan and Joe of Sixty Watt Shaman, highlighting the band's habit of having musical contemporaries play on their albums.[5]

The album yielded a minor hit with "Careful with That Mic...", a rap rock parody, which CMJ complimented for its clever rhymes.[6] 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 in an interview that of all Clutch's albums, Pure Rock Fury is his least favourite.[7]

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.

No.TitleLength
1."American Sleep"4:18
2."Pure Rock Fury"3:21
3."Open Up the Border"3:45
4."Careful with That Mic..."3:27
5."Red Horse Rainbow"5:58
6."The Great Outdoors!"3:47
7."Smoke Banshee"3:33
8."Frankenstein"5:41
9."Sinkemlow"3:55
10."Immortal"3:39
11."Brazenhead"6:28
12."Drink to the Dead"5:58
13."Spacegrass (Live)"7:28
Total length:61:24

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, Silver Spring, 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

Monitor engineer: Chris Sherman

  • All songs mastered by Larry Packer at Uncle Punchy Studios
  • Executive producers: Neil Fallon, Jean-Paul Gaster, Dan Maines, Tim Sult

Chart positions

Albums

Year Chart Position
2001 Billboard 200 135
2001 Top Heatseekers 5

Singles

Year Song Chart Position
2001 "Careful with That Mic..." Mainstream Rock Tracks 24

References

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ Mörat (March 10, 2001). "Albums". Kerrang!. No. 843. UK: EMAP. p. 46.
  3. ^ Johns, Darren (September 12, 2005). "Clutch : Pure Rock Fury". NME. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
  4. ^ "Pro Rock". Pro-rock.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  5. ^ "CLUTCH : Discography". Pro-rock.com. Retrieved February 20, 2016.
  6. ^ CMJ New Music Monthly - Google Books. April 2001. p. 68. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  7. ^ "Interview: Going Deep Into All Things Clutch With Singer Neil Fallon". Blogcritics.org. November 22, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2015.