Sumo Grip

Infobox Album |
Name = Sumo Grip
Type = Album
Artist = Lucifer's Friend


Released = 1994
Recorded = 1993-1994
Genre = Hard rock, AOR, Melodic Rock
Length = 61:33
Label = Castle Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Mean Machine" (1981)
This album = "Sumo Grip" (1994)
Next album =

Sumo Grip is the ninth and final album by Lucifer's Friend. This album once again displays the wide variety of styles Lucifer's Friend is famous for throughout their previous albums, living up to the "no album is the same" moniker. The band would stay together for a few years after the album's release before breaking up for the final time.

Track listing

#Get In (instrumental) - 0:34
#Heartbreaker - 5:11
#One Way Ticket to Hell - 5:48
#Don’t Look Back - 4:45
#You Touched Me... - 4:14
#Cadillac - 4:08
#Step by Step - 4:09
#Rebound - 4:24
#Sumogrip (instrumental) - 1:14
#Sheree - 4:38
#Back in the Track - 3:56
#Banzai (instrumental) - 0:32
#Any Day Now - 3:48
#Ride the Sky (LF classic) - 3:43
#Free Me (Heep classic) - 4:44
#Get Out (instrumental) - 0:20
#You Touched Me With Your Heart (bonus version, longer version) (5:15)

Personnel

John Lawton - Lead Vocals

Peter Hesslein / guitar, backing vocals

Andreas Dicke / bass

Jogi Wichmann / keyboards, drum programming on 5,11,17

Curt Cress / drums on 2,3,4,7,8,10

Udo Dahmen / drums on 6,13,14,15