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| Produced by
Jerry Goldstein and Eric Burdon. |
| In addition to
Eric Burdon & Jerry Witherspoon this album features Bob Mercereau, Lee Oskar, Harold
Brown, George Suranovich, Charles Miller, Howard Scott , John Sterling, Lonnie Jordan,
Terry Ryan, B B Dickerson, Kim Kesterson - on location with the Far Out Remote Unit - The
San Quentin Prison Band (featuring Ike White on guitar) |
| Burdon and
Witherspoon played 7 consecutive Mondays at The Whisky before recording this album. Track
10 on the "F#¢k Me ... I Thought He Was Dead" CD features Burdon and
Witherspoon on one of those Mondays. |
| Also released
in CD format by ARG Records/BMG 30748 74321 2 (1999 Germany). |
| This
album was originally
released as the "Guilty!" LP 1971 (MGM SE-4791). |
| In
his book "Good
Times", Dionisio Castello notes that (a) "Goin' Down
Slow" and "Home Dreams" were performed by Eric Burdon
& WAR while the other tracks were recorded by Burdon and
Witherspoon, (b) the provisional title for the album was "The
Time Has Come" with the cover featuring a phot of Barry Jenkins (ex The
Animals and Eric Burdon & The Animals drummer) strapped to
the electric chair and (c) despite Burdon indicating in 1971 interviews
that it was a live album from the May 1971 gig at San Quentin Prison with
Witherspoon and Muhammad Ali, the only track on the album from that gig is
"Going Down Slow" by Eric Burdon & WAR. The Burdon
and Witherspoon tracks were actually recorded at the MGM studios in
Hollywood on 31-Jul-71. The other Eric Burdon & WAR track
"Home Dream" was recorded at the Phillips Studio in Los Angeles
on 08-Aug-69. |
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| Jimmy Witherspoon - Obituary |
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| EricBurdonAlbums.com |
