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Elvis '88, with Elton Roy Orbison and Bruce
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That's Roy Orbison, not Elton. It's from this: Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night - Wikipedia
Ha, I stand corrected. I thought it was Elton with another of his bad wigs.
Easy Action; the album that nearly never was by former roadie Michael Allen
Los Angles 1968; Alice Cooper had just signed with Frank Zappa’s Bizarre records which then changed its name to Straight records because of legal technical issues. Frank discovered the band at The Cheetah Club on Santa Monica beach where they quickly emptied the place with their curious music presentation. this odd power impressed Zappa and signed them. after showing up at 7am ready to record their debut album Pretties For You, an unhappy but soon caffeinated Zappa cobbled together bits of them tuning up, live tapes, song ideas and managed to release that as a record. but he was losing interest in running a record company, telling his new prospects, “You can record your second album right now only if you have all your songs ready to go.” the band proclaimed, “Yes, Frank, all our songs are ready to go!” this was an inaccurate statement. Frank also stipulated that they had to line up the studio, Producer, and it had to be done and recorded in record time. nearby Sunwest was owned by Pat Boone, the Producer would be David Briggs who worked with Elvis Presley, Bob Seger and Neil Young. Mr. Briggs was definitely not enamored with Alice Cooper and certainly wished he was someplace else, the fact the album had to be done sooner than later did not improve his disposition, but he did have his moments. he played piano on the song Shoe Salesman. a disaster occurred during the recordings when Dennis’ Airline bass stopped working having suffered a grievous injury in the van accident which previously had nearly ended the band in a rollover. the neck had been broken and fixed but with a hidden electronic issue that didn’t rear its ugly head until too late. it would be a game-ender if Frank found out. where do you find a bass at two in the morning? every office, studio and closet at the studio was ransacked searching for a bass that just might be lying around when as if by divine providence, a closet door was opened and in its dark depths there was something that resembled a bass guitar. upon further examination it was found to be a Hofner bass, often referred to as a Beatle bass, it had a label with Cowsills stuck on it, it belonged to Barry Cowsill. Dennis took full advantage of the discovery and all was well. the day was saved, Easy Action was born and Frank was never the wiser. without their 2nd LP existing there never would have been that original Alice Cooper sound, despite the poor quality Production and no time to write songs. soon after, Frank sold Straight records to Warner’s who sent a young Bob Erzin to see if Alice Cooper was worth keeping and he took that evolving sound into the history books.
Los Angles 1968; Alice Cooper had just signed with Frank Zappa’s Bizarre records which then changed its name to Straight records because of legal technical issues. Frank discovered the band at The Cheetah Club on Santa Monica beach where they quickly emptied the place with their curious music presentation. this odd power impressed Zappa and signed them. after showing up at 7am ready to record their debut album Pretties For You, an unhappy but soon caffeinated Zappa cobbled together bits of them tuning up, live tapes, song ideas and managed to release that as a record. but he was losing interest in running a record company, telling his new prospects, “You can record your second album right now only if you have all your songs ready to go.” the band proclaimed, “Yes, Frank, all our songs are ready to go!” this was an inaccurate statement. Frank also stipulated that they had to line up the studio, Producer, and it had to be done and recorded in record time. nearby Sunwest was owned by Pat Boone, the Producer would be David Briggs who worked with Elvis Presley, Bob Seger and Neil Young. Mr. Briggs was definitely not enamored with Alice Cooper and certainly wished he was someplace else, the fact the album had to be done sooner than later did not improve his disposition, but he did have his moments. he played piano on the song Shoe Salesman. a disaster occurred during the recordings when Dennis’ Airline bass stopped working having suffered a grievous injury in the van accident which previously had nearly ended the band in a rollover. the neck had been broken and fixed but with a hidden electronic issue that didn’t rear its ugly head until too late. it would be a game-ender if Frank found out. where do you find a bass at two in the morning? every office, studio and closet at the studio was ransacked searching for a bass that just might be lying around when as if by divine providence, a closet door was opened and in its dark depths there was something that resembled a bass guitar. upon further examination it was found to be a Hofner bass, often referred to as a Beatle bass, it had a label with Cowsills stuck on it, it belonged to Barry Cowsill. Dennis took full advantage of the discovery and all was well. the day was saved, Easy Action was born and Frank was never the wiser. without their 2nd LP existing there never would have been that original Alice Cooper sound, despite the poor quality Production and no time to write songs. soon after, Frank sold Straight records to Warner’s who sent a young Bob Erzin to see if Alice Cooper was worth keeping and he took that evolving sound into the history books.
Eno - how it started
How it's going
How it's going
Village Pub in Birmingham, MI March 23 1969 (2 shows)I did not know that Robin was a part of this group until your post.
photo-Brian Gary Varga
The Paramounts 1964 / Procol Harum
Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Howie Epstein
