One Vice at a Time
One Vice at a Time is the sixth studio album by the Swiss hard rock band Krokus. It contains the singles " American Woman ," " Bad Boys, Rag Dolls" and " Long Stick Goes Boom".
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Background
After crocus had separated from her founding member and lead guitarist Tommy Kiefer and also for eingesprungene replacement Mandy Meyer had jumped back before the start of the recordings of the new album, introduced the band for their sixth album One Vice at a Time before the guitarist Mark Kohler. This also resulted in a small change in the band structure: Fernando von Arb was now the lead guitarist and Mark Kohler took over the rhythm guitar. However, the musical direction did not change. With the album recorded in the Battery Studios in London Crocus continued to offer the straight hard rock that had made them famous, and which was taken internationally by both the press and the fans with joy. Again, could the band in several countries recorded chart entries: In the U.S., the album was ranked 53 in the Netherlands, number 43, Germany # 38, Sweden # 36 and the UK position 28 The singles " Long Stick Goes Boom ", " Bad Boys, Rag Dolls " and The Guess Who cover" American Woman " supported the sales figures and, like " down the Drain " to this day always watched and awaited live songs of the band. One Vice at a Time brought crocus gold status, including in Switzerland, Canada and the United States. Following the album was promoted by extensive concert tours, again with known rock stars like Motörhead, Rush, Rainbow and Cheap Trick. In addition, Crocus underlined its position as the most successful rock band of Switzerland by, she managed the first Swiss rock band, the Hallenstadion in Zurich completely fill - a record which still exists today. But even after this album happened what in subsequent years should be the band's trademark, so to speak: the ribbon carousel turned on and after the World Tour Vice longtime drummer Freddy Steady left the group. He was replaced by the American Steve Pace, which - apart from Marc Storace - first non -Swiss member of the band's history. Information by Chris von Rohr According One Vice at a Time was not Tony Platt and the whole band produced, as it is printed on all recordings, but only by Platt, von Arb and ask him yourself A special feature of the album in the U.S. released LPs is that easy to distinguish on the one hand in terms of the cover artwork from the other publications and also have a marginal change in title list by setting the positions of "To the Top" and "Save Me" are reversed.
Title list
All CD and MC versions and all non-US versions of the LP
All U.S. versions of the LP
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- " Long Stick Goes Boom" was released in 2006 for the PC and console game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories used.