Alcatraz (album)

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Alcatraz
Alcatraz cover
Studio album by The Mr. T Experience
Released 1999
Recorded March - April 1999
Genre Punk rock, pop punk
Label Lookout!
Producer Kevin Army
Professional reviews
The Mr. T Experience chronology
Road to Ruin
(1998)
Alcatraz
(1999)
Yesterday Rules
(2004)

Alcatraz is the ninth album by the Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience, released in 1999 by Lookout! Records. It was the band's last album to include bassist Joel Reader, who left the group after its release.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Dr. Frank

  1. "I Wrote a Book About Rock and Roll"
  2. "Naomi"
  3. "Self-Pity"
  4. "Hey Emily"
  5. "Tomorrow is a Harsh Mistress"
  6. "Two of Us"
  7. "Our Days Are Numbered"
  8. "We're Not No One"
  9. "Re-Activate Your Heart"
  10. "Perhaps"
  11. "She's My Alcatraz"
  12. "I Feel for You"
  13. "We'll Get By"

[edit] Performers

  • Dr. Frank - vocals, guitar
  • Joel Reader - bass
  • Jim "Jym" Ruzicka - drums
  • Eric Noyes - hammond organ on tracks 1, 3, 8, & 10, piano on tracks 1 & 4
  • Gabe Meline - hammond organ on track 13, piano on track 10, ARP on track 5
  • Kevin Army - piano solo on track 4
  • Paige O'Donoghue - backwards laughing on track 9
  • Todd Grady - trumpet on track 2

[edit] Album information

  • Record label: Lookout! Records
  • All songs written by Dr. Frank
  • Produced, engineered, and mixed by Kevin Army in March and April 1999
  • Recorded at Foxhound Sound Studios, Roof Brothers Studios, Sharkbite Studios, and Studio 880 in Oakland, California, and at Laughing Tiger Studios in Marin County, California
  • Tracks 1-12 mixed at Foxhound Sound, track 13 mixed at Roof Brothers
  • Assistant engineers: Matthew Farina, Dave Simon-Baker
  • Mastered by John Golden
  • Photography by Jennifer Juniper Stratford
  • Art by Chris Appelgren

[edit] References