''Cocked and Loaded'' is an LP released February 14, 2006 by the Revolting Cocks on 13th Planet Records.

Track listing

Promo and Europe

Retail

Personnel

All track numbers refer to the retail version.

Revolting Cocks

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

(1, 5, 11),

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

(1, 4–11),

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

(1, 3–7, 9–11), keyboards (1, 2, 5–7, 9–11), chorus guitar, chorus bass & percussion (2),

background vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

(3–7, 9, 10),

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...

(4, 6),

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

(4),

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

(5, 6), drum programming (6, 7, 10), programming (8),

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

(9), production, mixing *

Gibby Haynes Gibson Jerome Haynes (born September 30, 1957) is an American musician, radio personality, painter, author and the lead singer of the band Butthole Surfers. Early life and career Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Gibby Haynes is the son of acto ...

- vocals (1–3, 11), background vocals (1, 11) *

Jello Biafra Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), known professionally as Jello Biafra, is an American singer, spoken word artist and political activist. He is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. Init ...

- vocals (6, 10) *

Rick Nielsen Richard Alan Nielsen (born December 22, 1948) is an American musician who is the lead guitarist, primary songwriter, and leader of the rock band Cheap Trick. He is well-known for his numerous custom-made guitars from Hamer Guitars, including hi ...

- surf guitar (5), second slide guitar lead (6), guitar & "

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" vocals (11) *Phildo Owen -

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(2), vocals (4), background vocals (4, 6, 9, 10),

cowbell A cowbell (or cow bell) is a bell (instrument), bell worn around the neck of free-roaming livestock so herders can keep track of an animal via the sound of the bell when the animal is grazing out of view in hilly landscapes or vast plains. ...

(6), "

rooster The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is now one of the most common and w ...

" &

toy piano The toy piano, also known as the ( in German), is a small piano-like musical instrument. Most modern toy pianos use round metal rods, as opposed to strings in a regular piano, to produce sound. The U.S. Library of Congress recognizes the toy pia ...

(9), "noises" (10) *Stevie Banch - chorus vocals (2), vocals (5, 7–9), background vocals (5, 7, 9), lead & rhythm guitar (7, 8), bass & drum programming (8) *Mark Baker - drums (1, 3, 4, 9, 11), background vocals (3, 4)

Additional Cocks

* Billy Gibbons - lead guitar (4), first slide guitar lead (6) *

Robin Zander Robin Wayne Zander (born January 23, 1953) is an American musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Cheap Trick, but is also a solo artist. Zander was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 as a ...

- background vocals (7) *David Garza - baritone guitar (4) * Mike Scaccia - verse guitar & verse bass (2), guitar (3), wah guitar (4), "sample" guitar (10) *Darrel James - programming, background vocals

Revolting Pussies

*Mackey Apple - background vocals (2, 11) *Aretha Jay - gospel vocals (2), background vocals *Lady Monster - background vocals, spoken word (11) *Marla Manning - background vocals *Vanessa Martinez - background vocals *Nadja Plagens - background vocals *Carolina Rhodes - background vocals *Maureen Miller - background vocals

Strap-on Cox

*Marco A. Ramirez - background vocals,

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*Chuy Flores - background vocals *Rene Garza - background vocals *Robert Manning - background vocals *Austin Rhodes - background vocals *Hector Saenz - background vocals *Bobby Torres - background vocals, assistant engineer *Gil Elguezabal - background vocals, assistant engineer *Ron Bissell - background vocals *Jesus Reyes - background vocals

Additional personnel

*"Earth, Wind & Satan" - horns (2, 11) *"The Hell Paso Texass Symphony Orchestra" - backing vocals (11) *Justin Leeah - engineer *Dave Donnelly - mastering *Lawton Outlaw - artwork design & layout

Additional information

This is the band's first full-length release in 13 years; the last LP, ''Linger Ficken' Good'', was issued in 1993. The LP's original working title was "Purple Head" and was originally due in 2004. "Caliente (Dark Entries)," a cover of sorts of "Dark Entries" by

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, with vocalist

, was featured on the

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to ''

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'' in 2005. A new track, "RevColution Medley", has displaced "Fire Engine" as the first track from the promo on the album, moving it to track 5. Oddly enough, the same two members of

Cheap Trick Cheap Trick is an American rock band formed in Rockford, Illinois in 1970 by guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson, lead vocalist Robin Zander and drummer Bun E. Carlos. Their work bridged elements of '60s pop rock, guitar pop, '70s har ...

also appear on ''

Cocked & Loaded ''Cocked & Loaded'' is the second studio album by American glam metal band L.A. Guns. Recorded at Hollywood studios One on One, Music Grinder and Conway Recording, it was produced by Duane Baron, John Purdell and Tom Werman, and released on A ...

'' by

L.A. Guns L.A. Guns are an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1983. The lineup currently consists of Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Phil Lewis (musician), Phil Lewis (lead vocals), Ace Von Johnson (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Johnny Mar ...

. The song "Revolting Cock au Lait" (appeared in the Retail Version of the album) is a mishmash of many songs considered hard rock classics. The intro uses the sampled "stomp-clap" from

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We Will Rock You "We Will Rock You" is a song by the British rock band Queen from their 1977 album '' News of the World'', written by guitarist Brian May. ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it number 330 of " The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004, and the RIAA it p ...

" and in the middle there is a simultaneous mashup parodying both the chorus from

Pink Floyd Pink Floyd are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experiments ...

's " Another Brick in the Wall" and

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin were an English rock music, rock band formed in London in 1968. The band comprised vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones (musician), John Paul Jones and drummer John Bonham. With a he ...

's "Immigrant Song", alluding topics like

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("We don't need some masturbation... aaaaah... Go fuck yourself! We don't need no cock control... aaaah... You fuck yourself!") and

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s ("Preachers... Leave those kids alone!"). At one point a transposed version of the guitar solo from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven" can be heard. Also, the melody used for this song (chords and compases) are based on

Jimi Hendrix James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Inducted ...

's "

Purple Haze "Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967, in the United Kingdom. The song features his inventive guitar playing, which uses the signature Hendrix chord a ...

". "RevColution Medley" is a shorter version of "Revolting Cock au Lait", before the parody of this

song.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cocked And Loaded 2006 albums Revolting Cocks albums Albums produced by Al Jourgensen Albums recorded at Sonic Ranch