| Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert | |
| Type: | Studio Album |
| Artist: | Raging Slab |
| Cover: | Ragingslabdmbc.jpg |
| Released: | April 27, 1993 |
| Genre: | Southern rock |
| Length: | 46:59 |
| Label: | Def American |
| Producer: | Rick Rubin (exec.) Brendan O'Brien |
| Prev Title: | Raging Slab |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Sing Monkey Sing |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert is a studio album by American hard rock band Raging Slab, released in 1993.[1] [2] It was released digitally in 2009.[3]
The video for "Anywhere But Here" included a cameo by actor Gary Coleman.[4]
The album was recorded on a Pennsylvania farm, in a studio constructed by the band. It was produced by Brendan O'Brien; the track "Lynne" features strings provided by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.[5]
Raging Slab had recorded three full albums between its 1989 debut and Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert, but due to record label issues did not release any of them.[6]
In 2005, Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert was ranked number 395 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.[7] The Chicago Reader called the album "rife with fragments of the 70s: Lynyrd Skynyrd's southern blues boogie, Blue Oyster Cult's heavy rock hooks, Grand Funk Railroad's braggadocio, ZZ Top's riff-drenched electric blues, Bad Company's pure hard rock."[8] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "the absurdly rocking, two-guitars-plus-slide Slab combines about 85 genres into one stinking heap of divine something-or-other." The Washington Post wrote that "the Slab is a retro-boogie band, enlivened by [Greg] Strzempka's skill with melody and arrangement but utterly predictable in style."[9] Spin praised the album's devotion to funk, writing that "the band harks back to an age when heavy rock had more in common with black proto-funk such as the Meters than with the rhythmic regimentation of today's metal."[10]
All songs written by Greg Strzempka.