''The Action Is Go'' is the fourth studio album by American

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band

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. It features new drummer

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( Kyuss) and new lead guitarist Bob Balch, replacing

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and Ruben Romano, who left to form the band

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. The album was produced by Jay Noel Yuenger of White Zombie, who contributed some additional instrumentation. The album sold 25,000 copies in the United States by May 2000. According to

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, the new lineup provided Fu Manchu with "the impetus and inspiration to really start moving forward," and the resulting album demonstrates the band's "

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energy, classic rock drive, psychedelic crunch, and heavy-ass grind all at once."

Track listing

Personnel

*Scott Hill – vocals, guitar *

– drums *Bob Balch – guitar *Brad Davis – bass, theremin * Jay Noel Yuenger – producer, organ, Minimoog, Electro-Harmonix Space Drum

Notes

*"Module Overload" was first released on the ''Godzilla'' EP and was re-recorded with a new vocal line and a different middle part. The original version appears again on '' Eatin' Dust''. *"Swami's Last Command" was originally a contribution to the soundtrack of the movie '' Chicago Cab'' (1998). *"Evil Eye" was featured on '' Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2''. * Tony Alva (of Z-Boys) is on the CD cover skating in the "Dogbowl". *This albums introduces Brad Davis on the

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which he used again on '' Start the Machine''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Action Is Go, The 1997 albums Fu Manchu (band) albums Mammoth Records albums Albums recorded at Sound City Studios