¡Viva Nueva!
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| Studio album by Rustic Overtones | |||||
| Released | June 5, 2001 | ||||
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| Genre | Rock and Roll | ||||
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| Label | Tommy Boy Records TBCD1471 |
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| Producer | Tony Visconti, David Leonard, and Rustic Overtones |
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Viva Nueva! is the fourth album by the Rustic Overtones, released in 2001 before their highly publicized breakup a year later. With 16 tracks, the album has the most songs of any Rustic Overtones album to date. Tommy Boy Records distributed the album after relations soured between the Rustic Overtones and major label Arista Records. The group produced a (supposedly) million-dollar record with Arista, then found themselves in trouble with the label after playing an extraordinarily hardcore set. It is said that an Arista representative was heard to admonish the group, yelling "We thought you were going to be like the Dave Matthews Band!" The group claimed that they had made no such promise, and Arista allowed them to take the record with them when they left. This album was then given to Tommy Boy for release, and there was much rejoicing among the fans.
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[edit] Videos
The two singles off the disc were "C'mon" and "Combustible", and both had music videos made for them. An open casting call, in the summer after the album was released, was advertised for filming of the new video. The Go-Kart racing portions were filmed in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Rumor has it that the video for "Combustible" had to be redesigned in the wake of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, since a video showing things blowing up was deemed not to be in the band's best interests.
[edit] Special Guests
Guests on the album include Funkmaster Flex (track 6), Imogen Heap (track 11) and David Bowie (tracks 9 and 16).
[edit] Miscellanea
In a live performance with his new band Rocktopus (now As Fast As) on WAAF-FM, former Rustic keyboardist Spencer Albee claimed that he had been smoking David Bowie's custom-made ultra-ultra-light cigarettes, which Bowie had evidently given him during the time when they were recording Viva Nueva!.
[edit] Track listing
- "C'mon"
- "Gas on Skin"
- "Love Underground"
- "Hardest Way Possible"
- "Crash Landing"
- "Smoke"
- "Baby Blue"
- "Revolution AM"
- "Sector Z"
- "Combustible"
- "Valentine's Day Massacre"
- "Hit Man"
- "Check"
- "Boys and Girls"
- "Beekeeper"
- "Man Without a Mouth"
[edit] Personnel
- Dave Gutter - guitar, vocals
- Spencer Albee - synthesizers, vocals
- Tony McNaboe - drums
- Jon Roods - bass guitar
- Ryan Zoidis - saxophone, engineer
- Jason Ward - baritone saxophone
- Scott Pederson - guest trumpet
- David Bowie - guest vocals on "Sector Z" and "Man Without a Mouth"
- Funkmaster Flex - guest vocals on "Smoke"
- Imogen Heap - guest performer on "Valentine's Day Massacre"
- Tony Visconti - producer, engineer, bass (upright)
- David Leonard - producer, engineer, mixing
- Steve Drown - producer, engineer
- Roger Sommers - engineer
- Jim Begley - engineer
- Chris Mazer - assistant engineer
- Ryoji Hata - assistant engineer
- Alex Chan - assistant engineer
- John Goodmanson - mixing
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