Question about Atomic Rooster

BaldFriede wrote: I really love the first album of Atomic Rooster. I had it on vinyl only, and when it finally came out on CD I bought it and was deeply disappointed: The record company had for some reason mixed a heavy metal guitar onto the album, which did not exist in the vinyl version! Now while bass player Nick Graham played some electric guitar on the album, it nowhere sounded like this. This additional heavy metal guitar is an atrocity and at least an anachronism; no guitar like that existed in 1970. The question I have is: Does the current CD-version of their first album still contain that heavy metal guitar? If not, I can finally close this gap in our CD-collection; our vinyl version of the album is rather worn-out.

There are two versions of the first Atomic Rooster Album, the original (which might be the one you had on vinyl) features the original line-up on all tracks: Vincent Crane (organ, piano), Nick Graham (voice, bass, flute) and Carl Palmer (drums).

Soon later Nick Graham left the band and was replaced by guitarist John Cann and the band with the new line-up re-recorded three tracks for the American version of the album, those tracks are: Friday 13th and the instrumentals S.L.Y. and Before Tomorrow. These tracks replaced the original ones and the track order was changed as well. The CD reissue is exactly the same as the American version.  I guess that's the CD you've purchased.

However, the 2004 CD re-release features for the first time on CD the original version of the album (both in recording and track order) plus the John Cann's re-recorded tracks as bonus.

I had only heard the Repertoir release and this did not strike me! Thanks for the topic

However Atomic Rooster is another one of these bands to have different artwork for their albums and both versionshould appear on here (as for GG) on the next version of the site!