Don't you hate it when musicians site really hip influences? "Oh, I live for Django! And I wore out my Charlie Parker collection." Then you see them play and out comes the lighter fluid ...
If you know me, you are sick of my influences and I'm sick of making myself sound old.
The Fabulous 80's! Fender skirts, hula-hoops, and everybody liked Ike. And emerging from the wreckage of the legendary Dogs / Lumbertones scene (which was the TRUE birth of "Grunge", except they weren't on drugs or in Seattle), John Cook started home recording and touring with his little machines.
What an idiot. This was the ONLY person who ever used the Roland
TB-303 the way it was designed - a bass machine. Boom-pah, boom-pah .... Oh Lord. Europeans and druggies world wide were spinning the knobs and creating techno stuff that I guess is called "Acid". You still hear it. It's awesome. Same machines. Aw' screw them. The Eddie Haskell Experience could still make a room GET
SPASTIC.
All was going well until Cook abandoned The Experience and his solo career and joined this
"supergroup" in a cynical effort to sell out. This proved to be a critical and finacial disaster. After a near deadly reaction to the extensive makeup, poison ivy, and several relatives going into the witness protection program (there is a little known "Shame" provision), he retreated to the furthest reaches of nowhere.
Today, the Eddie Haskell Experience lives on. At least in a little studio in a place you never heard of.
For the unauthorized version of the Eddie Haskell Experience rise/downfall:
Behind the Music
Oh, please don't forget to check out my old tune Detroit Iron, awesomely
recorded by honest to goodness legend Jimmy Thackery (& The Drivers).
I don't think it can be posted here, because it's still for sale on
both Sinner Streetand The Essential Jimmy Thackeryand Jimmy Thackery Live!. It's
also on iTunes. If you Google some combination of "Detroit Iron", Thackery,
and/or "John Cook" you can get some pretty cool reviews - some from faraway
lands.
Brian has signed a two record deal with Walt Disney Records. One of the albums includes covers of Gershwin and Disney Classics.
Two giants of popular entertainment have come together as Brian
Wilson, the pioneering musical genius who co-founded the Beach Boys and
wrote many of the band's greatest hits, has signed with Walt Disney
Records. In the months ahead, Wilson will record two new solo albums
for the label's Disney Pearl imprint, including one featuring covers of
classic songs by great American songwriters, George and Ira Gershwin.
He will follow that with an album of classic Disney songs, which the
artist promises to "Brian-ize" with his trademark vocal stacks and
unique arrangements. Release dates for each album have yet to be
determined.
thanks. you are the coolest. i greatly appreciate the link. i am going to bookmark it. 'hope all is well for you and your's. best wishes. take care. john
http://www.live365.com/stations/shokus/schedule/?site=pro then click station page then click play another window will open automatically and you can adjust the volume frank bank will be on at FIVE CENTRAL the show will be repeated the next several days as well at the same time
actually, i'm confused, now...if someone requests you as a friend, they have to click on ADD FRIEND, but the one accepting the friendship actually makes the ADD complete...so who really is responsible for ADDING a friend? you know what i mean? i don't even have it right, so maybe it applies both ways. so here i go: thanks for the add.
for my birthday my nephew sent me 'american scary: a tribute to the golden age of the horror hosts' on dvd. i could not find a clip on youtube. i think that you would enjoy it. it is a lot of fun. most of the stuff i have never even heard of it!
hey! when you have a few moments...please check out my comments. blue marilyn has sent me two links to a two part early 90's interview with brian wilson. be warned: it is very sad. john
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