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One more featuring great guitar solos...............The Blues is not everyone,s cup of tea...........i,ve listened to this tune countless times and the guitar interludes always gets to me....and the air guitar is in full motion lol
With a tip o' the hat to Elmore James...
I was always fascinated by Morrissey's huge Chicano fan base. Always seemed very unlikely to me given his pan-sexual aura and songs.
But here is a favourite:
But here is a favourite:
One year when I was in college, (late 1970's), I was one of the DJs for the campus radio station. It was only broadcast within the student union building cafeteria. I had the last show on late Friday afternoon, usually with a listening audience of between 0 and 5 people. I could play anything i wanted to.
One day near the end of the school year, the station manager said that about 30% of the 45 RPM records had to go, to make room for new incoming stock. All of the DJs were invited to help themselves to anything he had deemed redundant.
I had last pick, so I looked through everything remaining, with my eye on hidden gems, radio station promotional copies and rarities - ultimately I selected about 25, and a couple of years later, I traded most of those to a guy for the then recently-released three album bootleg Live in the Promised Land, sourced from a radio broadcast of Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at Winterland in San Francisco. from December, 1978.
One of the 45's I kept was a promo copy of Knock on Wood from David Bowie's 1974 album David Live. The B Side was Panic in Detroit, from the same Philadelphia shows from which the live album had been culled, but not included on the album itself. Other than as a 45 B side, this song remained unreleased until a 2005 remixed CD reissue. This version features a great guitar solo by Earl Slick.
Amazing intro by Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner.
I had the album on an 8 track cassette, and it stayed in the 8 track cassette slot in my car for a month. Soon to be followed by Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride.
From the interwebs:
For the 1973 world tour, Reed had put together a band that included the duel guitar attack of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner, who had previously worked with Alice Cooper.
Nope.
Glen Buxton, (lead), and Michael Bruce, (rhythm), were the guitarists in Alice Cooper, (the Band). The original Alice Cooper Band played their final show on April 8, 1974, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Wagner and Hunter backed Alice Cooper, the solo act, beginning with Welcome to My Nightmare, released in 1975.
This:
Alice Cooper - The Nightmare 1975 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Alice Cooper - The Nightmare 1975
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is Alice Cooper : The Nightmare , a 1975 ABC TV special. The music is good, but the show itself is pretty cringe-worthy, in a very mid-70's TV kind of way. The director, Jorn Winther, is best known for producing and directing several different soap operas. Based on AC:TN, I suspect that he was every bit as heterosexual as Vincent Price. Nothing says "Alice Cooper" like choreographed dance routines.
This is ripped from DVD, but quite clearly the DVD was sourced from un-remastered video tape. It's one of my uploads to the Internet Archive, as a request for a guy who was working as a crossing guard in my area until the end of the school year.
I stand corrected.Nope.
Glen Buxton, (lead), and Michael Bruce, (rhythm), were the guitarists in Alice Cooper, (the Band). The original Alice Cooper Band played their final show on April 8, 1974, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Wagner and Hunter backed Alice Cooper, the solo act, beginning with Welcome to My Nightmare, released in 1975.
This:
Alice Cooper - The Nightmare 1975 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Alice Cooper - The Nightmare 1975archive.org
is Alice Cooper : The Nightmare , a 1975 ABC TV special. The music is good, but the show itself is pretty cringe-worthy, in a very mid-70's TV kind of way. The director, Jorn Winther, is best known for producing and directing several different soap operas. Based on AC:TN, I suspect that he was every bit as heterosexual as Vincent Price. Nothing says "Alice Cooper" like choreographed dance routines.
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This is ripped from DVD, but quite clearly the DVD was sourced from un-remastered video tape. It's one of my uploads to the Internet Archive, as a request for a guy who was working as a crossing guard in my area until the end of the school year.
Shows there's lots of misinformation on the net.
However I know for sure it was the team of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner who played on the Lou Reed album and played the great dual guitar intro you mentioned,
I stand corrected.
Hunter and Wagner did some session work on the 1973 Alice Cooper, (Band), album Billion Dollar Babies.
From wikipedia: Three additional guitarists (including longtime band friend Mick Mashbir and New York-based session musicians Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter) were retained to cover for Buxton, who suffered from alcohol abuse-related pancreatitis throughout the sessions.
Hunter and Wagner were primarily session musicians frequently used by Bob Ezrin. Ezrin produced Alice Cooper albums in the 1970's, (Band and solo artist).
