Discogs: Band formed by three members of the Alice Cooper Group after the group split in 1974. As the name Alice Cooper had been taken by the group's lead singer, they took their name from the group's Billboard #1 hit album. However, their 1977 album, Battle Axe was not a critical success and the band disintegrated.
Billion Dollar Babies - Too Young (1977) Quoting (frankly, ripping off) the "I'm 18" idea, clumsily. Even the riff.
Billion Dollar Babies - Shine Your Love (1977)
Billion Dollar Babies - Wasn’t The One (1977)
Discogs: When recording with David Bowie the band was alternatively known as the Spiders or the Spiders from Mars. The members during this period were Mick Ronson, Mick ('Woody') Woodmansey, and Trevor Bolder.
I was a fan of the German Trilogy, not so much the Spiders-era stuff. I never knew these albums existed, frankly. I wonder if Bowie ever heard it.
The Spiders From Mars - Red Eyes (1976)
The Spiders From Mars - White Man Black Man (1976)
The Spiders From Mars - Shine a Light (1976)
The Lovin' Spoonful had a string of inoffensive, catchy, and enduring hits. John Sebastian had only one hit after the sixties ended, "Welcome Back", yet so effortlessly merged jug band folk with Beatle-esque pop while he was with this band. This album was made after he and everyone else left except latecomer Jerry Yester* and...the drummer, Joe Butler (pictured...on the right).
*In 2017, Jerry Yester was arrested for 30 counts of possession of child pornography in Arkansas and was released on a $35,000 bond. As a result of his arrest, he was dismissed from The Lovin' Spoonful. He pleaded guilty to eight counts of distributing, possessing or viewing matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child on October 9, 2018. In July 2019, he was handed a two-year prison sentence after his conviction for child pornography possession.
The Lovin’ Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler - Amazing Air (1969)
The Lovin’ Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler - Words (1969)
The Lovin’ Spoonful Featuring Joe Butler - Revelation: Revolution ’69 (1969)
I don't like The Doors. Never did, never will. So the fact that they released nothing but excrement after Jim Morrison died surprised me not. People just don't realize that they were a singles band above all, and everything else was just as shitty as it was after JM died.
The Doors - Treetrunk (1972)
The Doors - Ships With Sails (1971)
The Red Shadow - Anything Good (1977) Here's a Dangerous Minds essay about a band I've played a few times on my show. But what you might NOT know is that their underground 'hit' "Understanding Marx" was based on a Ray Charles song called "Understanding", which was more offensive in its own way, advocating violence against the women-folk in the enlightened love-fest of 1968, when everyone loved each other. Love.
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley 1969 (1969) Executive producers (the men with the money) were Kasenetz/Katz. "Sure, we'll finance your album. But we need a sure thing..."
Cary Simon - Long Term Physical Effects (1971)
Chubby Checker - Karate Monkey (1966)
Cook County - Pinball Playboy (1979)
David Bowie - What in the World (1976)
Dennis Linde - Burnin’ Love (1972)
Eddie Simpson - Big Black Funky Slave (1972)
Eric Burdon and War - A Day in The Life (1968) "Just keep Eric in coke...we'll pay for it later..." Recorded at various times between 1969 and 1971, released in 1976, forgotten by 1977.
Sdtk. to Russ Meyer's "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" - The Smell of Female (1966)
Ladies and gentlemen welcome to violence, the word and the act. While violence cloaks itself in a plethora of disguises, its favorite mantle still remains ... sex. Violence devours all it touches, its voracious appetite rarely fulfilled. Yet violence doesn't only destroy, it creates and molds as well. Let's examine closely then this dangerously evil creation, this new breed encased and contained within the supple skin of woman. The softness is there, the unmistakable smell of female, the surface shiny and silken, the body yielding yet wanton. But a word of caution: handle with care and don't drop your guard. This rapacious new breed prowls both alone and in packs, operating at any level, any time, anywhere, and with anybody. Who are they? One might be your secretary, your doctor's receptionist ... or a dancer in a go-go club!
Freddie Cannon - Sock it to the Judge (1968) I am working on my Lou Christie post-1971 discography. I should do the same with Freddie Cannon and 1966. This is another in a line of attempted get-rich-quick gambits by the record industry attendant to the hottest show on TV at the time, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, which POACA will recall as being touted as hip, subversive counter-culture. In reality, it was just the first of many attempts (this one a successful attempt) to take all the hippies, Yippees (short for Youth International Party), tie-dye, headbands, beads, buttons, face painting, etc., put it in a big blender of old show business bewilderment and fear, and end up with Jefferson Starship, Sammy Davis Jr. in Nehru, and ultimately, Ronald Reagan. This record went nowhere, of course, but I love mawkish trend-following by desperate people. Love. It.
Giles, Giles, and Fripp - One in a Million (1968) In 5 years, Robert Fripp and King Crimson would go from this to "The Talking Drum".
Herman’s Hermits - It’s Alright Now (1967)
Howling’ Wolf - Pop It To Me (1969)
Bo Diddley - I Don’t Like You (1969)
Jack Palance - Hannah (1970)
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