What tour was is it where Jamie switched to guitar and they got a diff bass player? Logically I figure Temple would need that more, but maybe it was Electric.
It was the second half of the Electric Tour, they started with a uk club tour at release and then when it broke big in the US they played Arenas there and worldwide, and returned to the UK for a couple of sold out nights at Brixton Academy, which was shown on the BBC, something that was rare in those days. Jamie switched for the later set of shows. The bass player was Haggis, post Zodiac Mindwarp and pre 4 horsemen. I saw them both ends of that tour, I think the only time Ive ever done that.
At the time I didn't realise it was Sorum on Temple either
It wasn't. he didn't join til the tour. The drummer for the album was Mickey Curry, although allegedly a lot of Eric Singers work made it on there, he played on the demo's of the album but by the time of final recording he had parted company with the Cult
Getting slightly closer to back on topic, I recently completed my second attempt at a White Falcon/Gibson Les Paul Jumbo hybrid guitar. Surprisingly (the Gibson LoZ pup is nothing like the Gretsch pups) thru my Sunn Solaris and a 4x12 it gets close to Duffy tone (but nowhere close on any other amp I have tried so far):
Oooh thats Gorgeous! I have daydreamed about a white and gold 335 type guitar, but I find full size acoustics too cumbersome so I'd like a thin falcon :p
I never knew that Bob Rock did the tragically hip, but it makes sense that he did other stuff other than commercialise many rock and metal acts, which is what I will always associate him with.
For my teens and 20s the Cult's musical evolution and mine mirrored each other. I was a 14 year old punk when I first saw them, as the support act for my girlfriends crush Big Country. we then went our separate ways. through Siouxsie I discovered the Sisters and Bauhaus and was a full fleged goth when Love arrrived. Then at college I rediscovered metal and was a denim wearing motorhead type when Electric arrived! after that I drifted away I dutifully bought the records and went to the shows but was disillusioned with them for for Sonic Temple and Ceremony, but the Black Sheep album came at a time when musically I was getting involved with dance music and electronica so that really worked for me.
It was probably always on the cards that Craig Adams would do a stint in the Cult, Billy and the Mission were thick as thieves for a while, in fact on the Gods Own Medecine tour he joined them onstage multiple times, and he and Craig were members of the same LA celebrity biker club.
To bring it all back on topic here is Craig with his thunderbird from that period
This one doesnt show the t-bird, but on this non album release from the same period you can definitely hear the power of adding Craig's bass musculature to the bands dynamics