The Action Is Go is the fourth studio album by American
stoner rock band
Fu Manchu. It features new drummer
Brant Bjork (
Kyuss) and new lead guitarist Bob Balch, replacing
Eddie Glass and Ruben Romano, who left to form the band
Nebula. The album was produced by
Jay Noel Yuenger of
White Zombie, who contributed some additional instrumentation.[1] The album sold 25,000 copies in the United States by May 2000.[10]
According to
AllMusic, the new lineup provided Fu Manchu with "the impetus and inspiration to really start moving forward,"[11] and the resulting album demonstrates the band's "
punk energy, classic rock drive,
psychedelic crunch, and heavy-ass grind all at once."[1]
Jay Noel Yuenger – producer, organ, Minimoog, Electro-Harmonix Space Drum
Notes
"Module Overload" was first released on the Godzilla EP and was re-recorded with a new vocal line and a different middle part. The original version appears again on Eatin' Dust.
"Swami's Last Command" was originally a contribution to the soundtrack of the movie Chicago Cab (1998).