GORILLA - FIRST ALBUM aka MAXIMUM RIFF MANIA 20th ANNIVERSARY VINYL SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION! *signed Including CD and inserts*
Gorilla's debut album will be 20 years old in 2020! To mark this occaision, a strictly limited re-issue is being released for the first time ever on (red) vinyl! Here's why.... .
When originally released on the long gone Swedish Luna Sound label - home also to the Supersuckers, Black Moses ft Jim Jones, Ex Melvin Mark D's Volcano, Penthouse etc - the CD format was King and reigned supreme! Vinyl releases were rarer than rocking horse turds! Despite this, Gorilla were determined to get the best sound for their vintage Vox, Orange, Gibson, Rickenbacker and Hayman drum set up!
The ONLY available option was the then unique all analogue TOERAG Studio hidden away in Londons Hackney district. At the time TOERAG was somewhat a cult 60's timewarp novelty, regarded with suspiscion by many late 90's digitalized muso's!
Fresh from the previous nights gig at Londons legendary Hope&Anchor, Gorilla set about commiting their live set to 8 track tape! 9 thunderous slices of fuzzier than fun heavy rock classics, incorporating stoner fuzz, 70's doom, hi-energy garage rock and punk, plus the acoustic Buzzard, spearheading what was to become the now more popular than ever stoner/doom scene of 2019!
Fast forward to now and vinyl is back, allowing Gorilla to release the album the way they originally wanted to, onwarm, loving, groovesome VINYL!
This vinyl re-issue cherry picks the best cuts of the cd - which originally ran at over 50 minutes, thus being impossible to fit on 2 sides of vinyl - to make an even more intense journey into the Gorilla twisted vision of rock n roll!
Fear not though, a copy of the original 10 track lp is also included in this strictly limited to 300 red vinyl, hand numbered and signed re-issue, which also includes inserts, poster and stickers reproduced from original images if the time!
Sit back, drop the needle in the groove, crank ya hi-fi high and lose yourself in some pure unadulterated "fuck the safety net" Gorilla rock action, and hear it as it should have always been heard!
Chris P. Bacon
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