''Pure Rock Fury'' is the fifth album by American rock band

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, released on March 13, 2001, and is their only album release with

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. The album

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state that it is dedicated to Ronnie True.

Album information

This album features guest appearances by

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Leslie West Leslie Abel West (born Weinstein; October 22, 1945 – December 23, 2020) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Mountain. West was named the 245th greatest guit ...

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), and Dan and Joe of

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, highlighting the band's habit of having musical contemporaries play on their albums. The album yielded a minor hit with "Careful with That Mic...", a

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parody, which ''

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'' complimented for its clever rhymes. 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 ''

''. 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 ''

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'' album the following year. Clutch vocalist

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has stated in an interview that of all Clutch's albums, ''Pure Rock Fury'' 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.

Personnel

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

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– guitar * Dan Maines – bass *

Jean-Paul Gaster Jean-Paul Gaster (born June 19, 1971) is an American musician who is the drummer for the rock band Clutch. Style and influences Gaster learned to play drums by playing along to 1960s and 1970s heavy rock bands like Jimi Hendrix, Cream, ZZ To ...

– drums *

– 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 (

) – 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,

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, NJ, The Machine Shop,

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, NJ and Uncle Punchy Studios
"Immortal" recorded by Jason Corsaro at Show Place Studios,

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, 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 Singles

References

{{Authority control Clutch (band) albums 2001 albums Atlantic Records albums Albums produced by Machine (producer)