Asphalt Risin'
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{{Infobox song
| name = Asphalt Risin{{'-}}
| cover = Asphalt Risin Chevy Van Cover.jpg
| alt = Image of autos in motion
| type = single
| artist = Fu Manchu
| album = In Search of...
| B-side="Chevy Van"
| released = 1996 (US){{cite web
|url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/asphalt-risin-mt0001823777
|title=Asphalt Risin' release date
|website=AllMusic
|access-date=July 16, 2023}}
| recorded = September 1995
| studio = Grandmaster Recorders, Ltd. in Hollywood, California
| genre = Stoner rock
| length = 3:13
| label = Mammoth Records
| writer = Brad Davis, Eddie Glass, Scott Hill, Ruben Romano
| producer = Fu Manchu & Brian Jenkins
| prev_title = Missing Link
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Jailbreak
| next_year = 1998
}}
"Asphalt Risin{{'-}}" is a song by American stoner rock band Fu Manchu. It was released as a single in 1996 by Mammoth Records – the first of two single releases off the album In Search of.... The B-side was a rendition of the 1975 song "Chevy Van" which was originally written and performed by Sammy Johns. It was featured in and on the soundtrack of the 1977 film The Van,{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-van-mw0001883793
|title=The Van – Original Soundtrack
|website=AllMusic
|access-date=July 10, 2023}} in which the main character drove around in a retrofitted custom van.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-van-vm1071228
|title=The Van (1977) Film
|website=AllMovie
|first=Mark
|last=Deming
|access-date=July 10, 2023}}
Reception
Dave Pehling from CBS news listed this song alongside the In Search of... track "Regal Begal" as the standouts which made the album it came from, "a bonafide classic of the genre" which he described as a "downtuned, psychedelic style of heavy stoner rock" created with "enormous fuzzed-out riffs."{{cite web
|title=SoCal Stoner-Rock Pioneers Return To San Francisco
|website=cbsnews.com
|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/socal-stoner-rock-pioneers-return-to-san-francisco/
|author=Dave Pehling
|date=November 6, 2017
|access-date=July 10, 2023}}
Representing Classic Rock magazine, Malcolm Dome noted the "decisive edge" that lead guitarist Eddie Glass and drummer Ruben Romano
contributed to the tracks "Asphalt Risin{{'-}}" and "Seahag" as a reason for inclusion in the article, "10 stoner rock albums you should definitely own."{{cite web
|title=10 stoner rock albums you should definitely own.
|website=loudersound
|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/10-best-stoner-rock-albums
|author=Malcolm Dome
|date=July 13, 2021
|access-date=July 11, 2023}}
Bearing to the longevity of the song's composition Curtis Craig from AllMusic, commenting on the live version from the bands 2003 Go for It... Live! album that, "it's songs from early albums that shine like a sparkly GTO paint job" noting that "Asphalt Risin{{'-}}" in particular "rumbles through shifting gears of fuzz."{{cite web
|title=Go for It...Live! Review by Craig Curtice
|website=AllMusic
|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000040404
|author=Craig Curtice
|date=July 22, 2003
|access-date=July 15, 2023}}
Track listing
7" vinyl 1996 (MR0139-7)
- "Asphalt Risin{{'-}}" – 3:11
- "Chevy Van" – 3:22 (Sammy Johns)
Personnel
- Scott Hill – vocals, guitar, producer
- Ruben Romano – drums, producer
- Eddie Glass – guitar, producer
- Brad Davis – bass, producer
Charts
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
! Chart (1996) ! Peak |
| {{single chart|UKrock|21|date=19960602|artist=Fu-Manchu|rowheader=true|access-date=September 3, 2023}} |