Contraband

Expanded edition of the band's 1976 twelfth album. Including the Golden Earring classics Bombay and Mad Love's Comin', plus four bonus tracks, including I Need Love. Remastered for the first time from the original first-generation master tapes. Bonus cd captures the band's concert at the Pinkpop Festival in 1977. Including a 28-page booklet with liner notes, memorabilia, and photos. Founded in 1961 by George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen, Dutch rock band Golden Earring (or Golden Earrings, until 1969) started off as a beat band, experimented as a psychedelic quartet and finally became a heavy rock group. Their ninth album Moontan (1973) - including their classic track Radar Love - hit the international album charts and is the band's most successful album in the United States, being the only Golden Earring album to be certified Gold by the RIAA. Released in December 1976, Contraband is Golden Earring's twelfth studio album and the first to feature guitarist Eelco Gelling. Following the experiments of the preceding albums Switch and To The Hilt, Contraband marks a return to a more accessible, blues-influenced sound, with an emphasis on the guitars of George Kooymans and Eelco Gelling. The single Bombay reached number nine in the Dutch Top 40 in December 1976. The first CD of this expanded edition of Contraband features four bonus tracks, including I Need Love, which the group recorded at the GTB Studio in The Hague in early 1977 and released exclusively in the United States that same year on the Mad Love album. The second CD is entirely dedicated to the recording of the performance Golden Earring gave at Pinkpop on 30 May 1977, including Bombay, Radar Love and Just Like Vince Taylor. All tracks have been remastered in 24 bit/192 kHz from the original master tapes. The 28-page booklet contains a story about the creation of the album, written by Golden Earring biographer and archivist Jeroen Ras. This expanded CD edition of Contraband is the ninth in the series of remastered & expanded albums by Golden Earring, supervised by Red Bullet catalog and band archivist Wouter Bessels.

Disc 1
1: Bombay
2: Sueleen
3: Con Man
4: Mad Love's Comin'
5: Fightin' Windmills
6: Faded Jeans
7: Time's Up
8: Faded Jeans (Early Mix)
9: Mad Love's Comin' (Unreleased Mono Mix)
10: I Need Love (No Lead Vocals, No Violins)

Disc 2
1: Mad Love's Comin'
2: I Need Love
3: Fightin' Windmills
4: Bombay
5: Con Man
6: Radar Love
7: Just Like Vince Taylor

Number of Discs: 2

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