Ritchie Blackmore; Plas Johnson; Ronnie James Dio; Tom Scott; Sheila E.; Carmen Twillie; Dweezil Zappa; Merry Clayton
Label
Hip-O Records
Dimensions
12.7 x 14 x 1.3 centimeters (0.23 kg)
Performer Notes
IN A METAL MOOD features Pat Boone's renditions of 12 hard-rock and heavy-metal classics, including Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven," Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" and Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City."
Personnel includes: Pat Boone, Ronnie James Dio, Clydene Jackson Edwards, Merry Clayton, Carmen Twillie (vocals); Ritchie Blackmore, Mitch Holder, Dawayne Bailey, Dweezil Zappa, Dan Ferguson, Michael Thompson (electric guitar); Doug Cameron, Bruce Dukov, Michelle Richards (violin); Evan Wilson (viola); Larry Corbett (cello); Tom Scott, Gary Herbig, Don Menza, Pete Christlieb, Terry Harrington, Tom Scott, Plas Johnson, Jeol Peskin (woodwinds); Frank Szabo, Chuck Findley, Wayne Bergeron, Rick Baptist, Chris Tedesco (trumpet); Dick "Slide" Hyde, Lew McCreary, Alan Kaplan, Bruce Otto, Dana Hughes (trombone); Dave Siebels (organ, keyboards); Andy Simpkins (acoustic bass); Marco Mendoza (electric bass); Greg Bissonette (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Sheila E. (timbales).
Recorded at Ocean Way Studios and Brooklyn Sound, Hollywood, California and TIC Music, Vienna, Austria. Includes liner notes by Pat Boone.
From the man who sanitized Fats Domino and Little Richard for your listening pleasure, here's a little not-so-heavy metal. Really. On IN A METAL MOOD, Pat Boone covers devil's-rock hits by Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Judas Priest and more. More Barney Bigard and Benny Goodman than Beavis & Butthead, Boone gives this material the big-band treatment.
Some of the cover-ees even drop in to help reconstruct their pasts. Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple plays guitar on a bossa nova version of "Smoke On The Water"--really--while Ronnie James Dio can be heard singing backup on a rendition of his own "Holy Diver" that wouldn't be out of place on a '60s Sinatra album. After "fastening his seatbelt" on a salsa-like "Panama" (originally by Van Halen), Boone ends things with a swinging "Stairway To Heaven." Really.
