- Full Circle (Pennywise album)
Infobox Album | Name = Full Circle
Type =Album
Artist = Pennywise
Released =April 22 ,1997
Recorded = 1996 at Total Access Studios inRedondo Beach, California
Genre = Punk
Length = 60:36
Label = Epitaph
Producer = Pennywise,Eddie Ashworth
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ttz8b5f4nsqk~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pennywise/albums/album/234706/review/5945506/full_circle link]
Last album = "Home Movies"
(1995)
This album = "Full Circle"
(1997)
Next album = "Straight Ahead"
(1999) |"Full Circle" is the fourth full-length
album by the punk band Pennywise. It was released onApril 22 ,1997 (see1997 in music ) and was digitally remastered onMarch 8 ,2005 on the original label. This is the first Pennywise studio album to feature current bassistRandy Bradbury , since it is the first after thesuicide of the original bassistJason Thirsk . The entire album was dedicated to the memory of Thirsk, who had been a key song writer for Pennywise until his death, and a close friend of all of those in the band.Writing and production
There had been a delay between 1995's "About Time" and the recording of this album, which occurred in the fall of 1996. During the "About Time" tour, founding member
Jason Thirsk took a hitaus from Pennywise to try to control his then-growing alcoholism. One Hit Wonder bassistRandy Bradbury , who had contributed on the band's 1993 album "Unknown Road ", stepped in. When Thirsk returned briefly returned on bass in 1996, Bradbury was supposed to switch to rhythm guitar; unfourtnately, Thirsk died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound onJuly 29 th of that year at the age of 28. His death nearly delayed the prodcution of the fourth Pennywise album.Pennywise was shaken by Thirsk's death; however, they decided to continue performing, thus adding Bradbury as Thirsk's permanent replacement. The band finally returned to the studio in the fall of 1996 to begin recording the follow-up to "About Time".
Track listing
# "Fight Till You Die" – 2:22
# "Date With Destiny" – 2:55
# "Get A Life" – 2:56
# "Society" – 3:24
# "Final Day" – 3:11
# "Broken" – 2:46
# "Running Out Of Time" – 2:21
# "You'll Never Make It" – 2:35
# "Every Time" – 3:37
# "Nowhere Fast" – 2:56
# "What If I" – 2:55
# "Go Away" – 1:51
# "Did You Really?" – 2:51
# "Bro Hymn Tribute" 5:30
* After a period of silence, ahidden track with a piano solo is played. The solo is an extension of the original piano composition that marks the beginning of the hugely successful Pennywise "Unknown Road " album (1993). Track 14, including the period of silence and the hidden track, totals 23:56.All songs by Pennywise.
Personnel
*
Eddie Ashworth - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
*Milton Chan - Mixing
*Fletcher Dragge - Guitar
*Jesse Fischer - Artwork
*Brett Gurewitz - Mixing
*Jim Lindberg - Vocals
*Byron McMackin - Drums
*Pennywise - Producer, Engineer, Artwork, Mixing
*Darian Rundall - Assistant Engineer, Mixing
*Eddy Schreyer - Mastering
*Jason Thirsk - Vocals (background)
*Ronnie King - Piano "Unknown Road"Charts
Album - Billboard (North America) and the
ARIA Charts (Australia).
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