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"Frankenstein" is an instrumental song by The Edgar Winter Group from their album ''They Only Come Out at Night''. In live performances of the song, Edgar Winter further pioneered the advancement of the synthesizer as a lead instrument by becoming the first person ever to strap a keyboard instrument around his neck, giving him the on-stage mobility and audience interaction of guitar players.〔Keyboard Magazine, November 01, 2008 – page 19〕 The song topped the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart for a week starting in May 1973, and sold over one million copies. It was knocked from the #1 spot by Paul McCartney's "My Love". In Canada it fared equally well, reaching #1 on the ''RPM 100'' Top Singles Chart the following month,〔(Top Singles – Volume 19, No. 18, June 16 1973, at collectionscanada.gc.ca )〕 the same month that saw it peak at #18 in the UK.〔''Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton, Rock Movers & Shakers'', 1991 Billboard Books.〕 The song's title, coined by the band's drummer Chuck Ruff, derives from the fact that the original recording of the song was much longer than the final version, as the band would often deviate from the arrangement into less structured jams. The track required numerous edits to shorten it. The end result was pieced together from many sections of recording tape using a razor blade and splicing tape. Winter frequently refers to the appropriateness of the name also in relation to its "monster-like, lumbering beat". (One riff was first used by Winter in the song "Hung Up", on his jazz-oriented first album ''Entrance''. He later tried a variation on it, "Martians" on the ''Standing on Rock'' album.) Winter played many of the instruments on the track, including keyboards, saxophone and timbales. As the release's only instrumental cut, the song was not initially intended to be on the album, and was only included on a whim as a last-minute addition. It was originally released as the B-side to "Hangin' Around", but the two were soon reversed by the label when disc jockeys nationwide in the USA as well as in the Canada were inundated with phone calls and realized this was the hit. The song features a "double" drum solo, with Ruff on drums and Winter on percussion. In fact, the working title of the song was "The Double Drum Song".〔Morse, Tim. ''Classic Rock Stories: The Stories Behind the Greatest Songs of All Time'', 1998.〕 The single was one of the few No. 1 chart records to include an extended passage featuring the ARP 2600 synthesizer. The group performed the song on ''The Old Grey Whistle Test'' in 1973. The song was actually performed three years previously when Edgar was playing with his older brother Johnny Winter at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970. This rare recording was recently released as one of several live bonus tracks included in the two-disc Deluxe Edition CD of Johnny Winter's ''Second Winter''. Rolling Stone lists it as one of the top 25 best rock instrumentals.〔(Rolling Stone, The Twenty-Five Best Rock Instrumentals )〕 Sections of the song were edited and sequenced into ident and jingles on Alan Freeman's Top 40 show on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 (UK) for many years, often followed with Freeman's trademark opening line 'Greetings Pop Pickers...' ==Personnel== *Ronnie Montrose – guitar *Dan Hartman – bass *Chuck Ruff – drums *Edgar Winter – ARP 2600 synthesizer, saxophone, drums 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frankenstein (instrumental)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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