Rodents Rock The Reich!. In May 1997 The Hamsters

The Hamsters

The Hamsters are a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.They performed their first live show at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, on 1 April 1987. They initially played in local pubs with no ambitions to take themselves seriously or to turn professional...

 played an hour set at the Leverkusen Blues Festival

Leverkusen

Leverkusen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf....

. This festival was filmed and shown on Germany's WDR TV station. The Hamsters set originally went out live but this video is the edited highlights.

Rodents Rock The Reich! was re-released (along with the rest of The Hamsters

The Hamsters

The Hamsters are a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.They performed their first live show at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, on 1 April 1987. They initially played in local pubs with no ambitions to take themselves seriously or to turn professional...

' video back catalogue) in 2005 when it was re-edited and re-mastered into the DVD format (MPEG2 in uncompressed 48 kHz LPCM

LPCM

Linear pulse-code modulation is a method of encoding audio information digitally. The term also refers collectively to formats using this method of encoding...

 stereo).

Track listing

1. "Only Rock'n'Roll"
2. "Georgia Slop"
3. "Voodoo Chile"
4. "Wanna Make Love To You"
5. "Blues for the Blues"
6. "Tear It Up"
7. "All Along The Watchtower"
8. "The Walk"
9. "Star Spangled Banner"
10. "Purple Haze"
11. "Sharp Dressed Man"
12. "Encore: Chequebook"

Personnel

• Snail's-Pace Slim – lead vocals, guitars
  Electric guitar
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• Rev Otis Elevator – drums
  Drum kit
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
  Singing
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Production

• 'Sonic enhancements' – Jerry Stevenson
  Jerry Stevenson
  Jerry Stevenson, is a guitar and mandolin player who has worked with Barbara Dickson, Procol Harum and is currently a member of Be Sharp.In 1991 Procol Harum re-formed and began recording a new album called The Prodigal Stranger...
  
  
• Video editing
  Video editing
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   – Kurt Adkins, Lino Raffa
• DVD authoring
  DVD authoring
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  , DVD mastering
  MPEG encoding
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  – Kurt Adkins.
• Cover layout – Phil Smee at Waldo's Design & Design Emporium, Kurt Adkins.
• 'Hindenberg Hamster' design – Des Penny