AC/DC guitar riff and Bon's scream and snarl, I was hooked. A friend tells me about this guy who sounded just like him. Reid Brooks: Bon had been gone two years. Regardless, Vice is an enjoyable, if not entirely original, album that sets the foot tapping and the head nodding. Krokus's next album Headhunter is a more varied slice of heavy metal, more in line with Judas Priest or Scorpions than AC/DC so perhaps the splurge of One Vice at a Time got that out of their systems. To be fair this is a better version of AC/DC than AC/DC were during the period so I really shouldn’t complain. They give it plenty of welly and amp up the riffs over the original to good effect.Īlongside the simple pleasure of listening to the chugging riffs and squealing throaty vocal is the task of spotting which AC/DC tune has been cribbed, pillaged and homaged in each of the songs. The other song worth mentioning specifically is a creditable cover of the Guess Who’s American Woman. Playin the Outlaw pretends it is going to be Rainbow-esque medieval rock before once again turning to Powerage for its real inspiration.
This is pure Bon Scott era wordplay set to a song structure that starts like RiffRaff before turning towards Love Hungry Man. Long Stick Goes Boom borrows both the lyrical and musical themes from the antipodean greats. Straight-up blues based riff rock chuggers played loud. Still a knock off, but if you are going to ape the greats this is the way to do it. But listening to it today, it's a fun album John Davidson: At the time I ignored this as an AC/DC knock off. You might think that it is a bad thing to copy a band in this manner, and maybe you're right, but to be honest, by 1982 AC/DC sure could need a replacement." ( Rate Your Music) You see, no other Krokus albums sounds this much like AC/DC. The follow up, Hardware, was even more inspired by the Australian band, even if it was a little weaker, and it all culminated into this little gem called One Vice At A Time. "In 1980, Krokus started their AC/DC worship, with the amazing Metal Rendez-Vouz album. AC/DC-minded tunes like Save Me and Long Stick Goes Boom aren't very imaginative, but they're infectious and enjoyable nonetheless." ( AllMusic) But while Krokus wasn't easy to respect or admire, it was easy to like. "Krokus's detractors would argue that One Vice at a Time is the work of a poor man's AC/DC - and, to be sure, this 1982 LP is formulaic and contrived.
When you have a drummer that goes by the name of Freddy Steady (I shit you not) you know the beat is going to be in the pocket." ( Thunder Bay Area Rock) The guitars are raw sounding basically a dry recording not an overproduced album by any stretch of the imagination. This album is recorded roughly around the edges. "If you’re looking for any kind of power ballad on here forget about it.
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