Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert

Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert is a studio album by American hard rock band Raging Slab, released in 1993.^[5][6] It was released digitally in 2009.^[7]

Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
Studio album by Raging Slab
Released	April 27, 1993
Genre	Southern rock
Length	46:59
Label	Def American[1]
Producer	Rick Rubin (exec.) Brendan O'Brien
Raging Slab chronology
Raging Slab (1989) Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert (1993) Sing Monkey Sing (1996)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B[3]
Rock Hard	9/10[4]

The video for "Anywhere But Here" included a cameo by actor Gary Coleman.^[8]

Production

The album was recorded on a Pennsylvania farm, in a studio constructed by the band.^[1] It was produced by Brendan O'Brien; the track "Lynne" features strings provided by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.^[9]

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.^[10]

Reception

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.^[11] 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."^[12] 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."^[3] 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."^[13] 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."^[14]

Track listing

All songs written by Greg Strzempka.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Anywhere But Here"	3:56
2.	"Weatherman"	3:12
3.	"Pearly"	3:36
4.	"So Help Me"	4:13
5.	"What Have You Done"	4:05
6.	"Take a Hold"	5:02
7.	"Laughin' and Cryin'"	3:19
8.	"Don't Worry About the Bomb"	2:33
9.	"Lynne"	4:32
10.	"Lord Have Mercy"	3:52
11.	"National Dust"	3:34
12.	"Ain't Ugly None"	5:05

Personnel

Band members

• Greg Strzempka - vocals, guitar, slide, banjo, mandolin
• Elyse Steinman - slide guitar, vocals, lap steel
• Alec Morton - four stringed electric bass
• Mark Middleton - lead guitar, slide, vocals
• Paul Sheehan - drums, cymbals

Additional personnel

• Danny Frankel - smaller drums
• John Paul Jones - strings on "Lynne"

Credits

• Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien
• Engineered by Nick DiDia
• Recorded at Big Mo Recording while it was parked at the Slab Farm
• Executive Producer: Rick Rubin
• Album Art by Raging Slab
• Band photos by Allison Dyer
• Other photos by The Electric Mystress