The Doctor

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:31:16
Personnel: Dee Lewis, Coral Gordon (vocals, background vocals); Robin Zander (vocals); Rick Nielsen (guitar); Paul Klingberg (keyboards); Bun E. Carlos (drums); Tony Platt (programming). Audio Mixers: Jason Corsaro; Paul Klingberg; Tony Platt. Recording information: Battery Studios, London, England; Park Gates Studios, Sussex, England; Pierce Arrow Recorders, Evanston, IL. The career choices of Rockford, IL's most famous quartet are always perversely peculiar: After a strong return to straight power pop for Standing on the Edge, Cheap Trick promoted Standing's engineer Tony Platt (AC/DC, Patto) to producer and inauspiciously squeezed out the Doctor. Overbearing keyboards trample through decent ideas ("Take Me to the Top," sole single "It's Only Love") and careen into bizarre throwaways ("Man-U-Lip-U-Lator," the Kiss-referencing "Doctor"), resulting in the shrill nadir of bad '80s radio or lost Rundgren records. Hit producer Ritchie Zito harnessed Trick's combusting commercial soundscape for the follow-up smash, Lap of Luxury, but he also forced outside songwriters on the band. Thus, the glib but slight Doctor now stands as guitarist/guiding light Rick Nielsen's last gasp, a chipped nugget of Americana from pop's greatest disposable heroes who romance their brief reign in the review mirror. ~ Doug Stone
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)