Hot & Spicy Beanburger

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Hot & Spicy Beanburger

Studio album by Dread Zeppelin

Released

1993

Genre

Hard rock, reggae rock

Length

48:58

Label

Birdcage Records

Producer

Jah Paul Jo (Joe Ramsey)
Rasta Li-Mon (Lee Manning)

Dread Zeppelin chronology

It's Not Unusual
(1992)

Hot & Spicy Beanburger
(1993)

No Quarter Pounder
(1995)

Hot and Spicy Beanburger is the fourth studio album by Dread Zeppelin, released in 1993. This album is know mainly for “the return of of Tortelvis” who was not on the previous album It's Not Unusual (criticized by many fans due to a sharp turn into Disco territory).
Hot and spicy beanburger brings back the sound of “Led Zeppelin in a reggae style”, with (of course) a great Elvis voice.
The album brings numerous new Led Zeppelin cover songs, such as "Good Times Bad Times", "Going to California" and "Hot Dog".
The album has two non Led Zeppelin songs: "Unchained Melody" and "Good Rocking Tonight", a song also covered by Robert Plant on his album The Honeydrippers: Volume One under the name "Rockin' at Midnight".
Like on 5,000,000 the album brings a few songs by Dread Zeppelin themselves: “The Ballad of Charlie Haj” about the band member Charlie Haj “the man that hands Tortelvis his water and towel on stage” a running gag in all of Dread Zeppelin album credits and live shows. Also the song “Hot and Spicy Beanburger” described by Tortelvis as “a kind of informal session with this recording thing we’re gonna do with some friends of mine”.

The leaflet list songs and credits using a strange font composed of all kinds of characters (like "βallad of ¢hĀrlie Häј" see cover for sample), generally ignoring upper case, with a background of burger bread, a picture of the band members (in costume) placed on lettuce and tomatoes as if condiments. A quote states: “Hot & spicy beanburger is a tasty tid-bit o’love… A plentiful portion O’peace… A royal repast set before the king.” Credited to “Unknown Eastern Mystic (1956)”.

1 Track listing
2 Band Members
- 2.1 Additional credits
3 Production

[edit] Track listing

"Good Times, Bad Times" (Bonham, Page, Jones) - 3:25
"Going to California" (Page, Plant) - 3:47
"Good Rocking Tonight" (Roy Brown) - 3:29
"Kashmir" (Bonham, Page, Plant) - 9:57
"Ballad of Charlie Haj" (Ramsey, Putman, Haasis) - 3:38
"Unchained Melody" () - 3:15
"Stairway to Heaven" (North, Zaret) - 7:00
"Hot and Spicy Beanburger" (Ramsey, Putman, Haasis, Tortell) - 1:08
"Hotdog" (Page, Plant) - 2:57
"All of My Life" (Plant, Jones) - 6:05
"Wot Happened? [The sloppy shuffle]" (Ramsey, Putman, Haasis) - 4:17

Note that Dread Zeppelin changes the songs syntax or name from the original Led Zeppelin version on purpose, they are listed here like on the album.

[edit] Band Members

Tortelvis - Lead singer
Ed Zeppelin - congas, vocals and toast (burnt).
Jah Paul Jo - cosmic stun guitar
Butt Mon - porn bass
Carl Jah - Guitar
Spice - drums

[edit] Additional credits

Jah Jah Gabor: pinao & alien invasion
Bun-E-Slopes: harmonica
I-Lar-E-Treadwell: auto harp, magic bat & vocals
I-Max: good vibes & vocals
Colonel Kane: introduction
Mar-I-Stradivar-I: violin
Background vocals by the Michael Jordanaires & Merci & The Merkettes as the “Sweet Perspirations”
Charlie Haj is the man that hands Tortelvis his water & towel on stage.

[edit] Production

Produced by Jah Paul Jo & Rasta Li-Mon
Engineered by Rasta Li-Mon
Recorded @ the clubhouse, Burbank, ca
Assistant engineers: Efren Herrera & Conrad Kalil
Mixed @ The Chapel, Encino, ca
Assistant Engineer: Andy Warwick
Mastered by Doug “d.o.g.” dish Schwartz

Art Direction: Bryant Fernandez for Graphic cents
PhotographyMyron (trigger-happy) Beck
Repped 2-d bone by Kirk Thornby
Managed “despite the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” by Charly Prevost, Studio City, ca 91604-3040
Assisted by those men amongst men: Alan “u-turn” Grange, Darrell Bussino & Tom Hamilton
Guitars assembled w/incredible precision by dave Cervantes & Karl Sandoval
Only Dean Markley strings vibrate on this album as ably strung by our man, David Wilson.