Doppelgänger (Daniel Amos album)

Doppelgänger
Studio album by Daniel Amos
Released	1983
Recorded	Whitefield Studios (Santa Ana, California)
Genre	Rock / New Wave
Label	Alarma! Records
Producer	Daniel Amos
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Daniel Amos chronology
¡Alarma! (1981) Doppelgänger (1983) Vox Humana (1984)

Doppelgänger is the title of a 1983 album by rock band Daniel Amos, released on Alarma! Records.

Doppelgänger was a much darker, more haunting album than the album that preceded it, ¡Alarma!. The album starts with the eerie backward sounds of "Hollow Man" (inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem, The Hollow Men). Taylor's lyrics to "I Didn't Build it For Me", "Autographs for the Sick", and "New Car" were sharp attacks on televangelists, that actually predate the Jimmy Swaggart/Jim Bakker/Robert Tilton scandals by nearly a decade.

Doppelgänger was the second of a four part series of albums by DA entitled The ¡Alarma! Chronicles, which also included the albums ¡Alarma!, Vox Humana, and Fearful Symmetry. The band raised eyebrows on the tour that followed each release, by presenting a full multimedia event complete with video screens synchronized to the music, something that was unusual in the early 1980s for any band. This album, along with the other three albums from the Alarma! Chronicles, was rereleased as part of the Alarma! Chronicles Book set in 2000. The Book Set included 3 CDs, over 200 pages of lyrics, photos, liner notes, essays, interviews and other information in a hardcover book.

Track listing

Side One

1. "Hollow Man" (Taylor)
2. "Mall (All Over The World)" (Taylor)
3. "Real Girls" (Taylor, Chamberlain)
4. "New Car!" (Taylor)
5. "Do Big Boys Cry" (Taylor)
6. "Youth With A Machine" (Taylor)
7. "The Double" (Taylor)
8. "Distance and Direction" (Taylor)

Side two

1. "Memory Lane" (Taylor)
2. "Angels Tuck You In" (Taylor)
3. "Little Crosses" (Chamberlain)
4. "Autographs for the Sick" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor, Chamberlain, Chandler)
5. "I Didn't Build It For Me" (Words by Taylor, Music by Taylor, Chamberlain)
6. "Here I Am" (Taylor)
7. "Hollow Man (Reprise)" (Taylor)

Personnel

• Terry Scott Taylor – rhythm guitars and lead vocals.
• Jerry Chamberlain – lead guitars, vocals, lead vocal on "Little Crosses", spoken lead vocal on "Autographs For The Sick".
• Tim Chandler – bass guitar.
• Ed McTaggart – drums.

Additional musicians

• Tom Howard – Keyboards
• Mark Cook – Keyboards
• Marty Dieckmeyer – Keyboards
• Jeff Lams – Keyboards
• Rob Watson – Keyboards.
• Bill Colton – Saxophone
• Alex MacDougall percussion.
• Background vocals provided by Randy Stonehill, Tom Howard, Derri Daugherty, Janet McTaggart, Dori Howard, Mark Cook, The Three Women from Istanbul, and Emilia Emulator.

Production Notes

• Engineered by Thom Roy.
• Second Engineer – Derri Daugherty.
• Recorded and Mixed at Whitefield Studios, Santa Ana, California.
• Mastered at MCA Whitney by Steve Hall.
• Rehearsals and Arrangements Recorded at the Rebel Base, Santa Ana.
• Album Art Concepts Terry Taylor, Derrill Bazzy and Phillip Mangano.
• Photography – Derrill Bazzy and Bonnie Ferguson.
• Art Direction – Derrill Bazzy.
• Keyboards arranged by Taylor/Chamberlain/Howard.
• 1992 CD Reissue Digitally Remastered by Doug Doyle.
• CD Repackaging by Tom Gulotta and Court Patton, Patton Brothers Design.
• Project Coordinator: Tom Gulotta