Scarabus

Scarabus
Studio album by Ian Gillan Band
Released October 1977
Recorded Kingsway Recorders, London, UK, July 1977 – August 1977
Genre Jazz-Rock fusion
Length 41:20
Label Island
Producer Ian Gillan Band
Ian Gillan Band chronology
Clear Air Turbulence
(1977)
Scarabus
(1977)
Live at the Budokan
(1978)
Alternative cover
Cover of the 1989 release
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

Scarabus is the third and the last studio album by British jazz-rock fusion band Ian Gillan Band, released in 1977. The album was reissued in 1989 by Virgin Records on CD. The reissue included an extra track, "My Baby Loves Me". This track, recorded live at the Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, on 22 September 1977, was originally part of the double LP set Live at the Budokan, and had been omitted from the UK release in error.

Ian Gillan re-used the vocal melody of the title track "Scarabus" on the song "Disturbing the Priest" six years later, on the album Born Again during his short tenure with the British hard rock/heavy metal band Black Sabbath. The guitar riff on "Mercury High" is the same as the one played by Fenwick on "Back USA" from his 1971 solo album "Keep America Beautiful, Get a Haircut".

Cover

The "witch" on the cover comes from an adaptation of the movie poster for the 1976 horror film The Witch Who Came from the Sea, which itself was based on an older Frank Frazetta painting. [2]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Scarabus" – 4:53
  2. "Twin Exhausted" – 4:08
  3. "Poor Boy Hero" – 3:08
  4. "Mercury High" – 3:31
  5. "Pre-release" – 4:22

Side 2

  1. "Slags to Bitches" – 5:09
  2. "Apathy" – 4:19
  3. "Mad Elaine" – 4:15
  4. "Country Lights" – 3:16
  5. "Fool's Mate" – 4:19

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