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Post by Buck on Aug 31, 2020 12:41:24 GMT
Say what you will about Joe Perry's playing, no one can touch him for looking like a rock star. No offense intended to Joe (I own all three Joe Perry Project LPs after all), I just prefer Brad's solos. Ocean, I'm impressed with your affinity for and depth of music appreciation in general, as well as the size of your music library. I meant that comment in a light hearted way. The Hunter/Aerosmith connection (for "Walk This Way") is one of the best known legends in rock. I have Joe's first solo LP on vinyl, but I haven't played it in decades. But I think if you look in the dictionary for "rock star" there would be a picture of Joe Perry.
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Post by The Ocean on Aug 31, 2020 12:50:39 GMT
No offense intended to Joe (I own all three Joe Perry Project LPs after all), I just prefer Brad's solos. Ocean, I'm impressed with your affinity for and depth of music appreciation in general, as well as the size of your music library. I meant that comment in a light hearted way. The Hunter/Aerosmith connection (for "Walk This Way") is one of the best known legends in rock. I have Joe's first solo LP on vinyl, but I haven't played it in decades. But I think if you look in the dictionary for "rock star" there would be a picture of Joe Perry. Thank you! And agreed that he's the living embodiment of the rock star archetype. Fun story: Picked up this record in Chicago in the early 00's along with a CD copy of John Shirley's band The Panther Moderns with a version of See You In Black on it. THAT was a find.
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Post by marty on Aug 31, 2020 13:16:59 GMT
Say what you will about Joe Perry's playing, no one can touch him for looking like a rock star. No offense intended to Joe (I own all three Joe Perry Project LPs after all), I just prefer Brad's solos. And in fairness to Brad and Joe, Steve Hunter told me that they were more than capable of playing those lead solo’s, and that he was never totally certain why Jack Douglas turned to him and Dick Wagner to do it.
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Post by edog40 on Aug 31, 2020 14:20:23 GMT
No offense intended to Joe (I own all three Joe Perry Project LPs after all), I just prefer Brad's solos. And in fairness to Brad and Joe, Steve Hunter told me that they were more than capable of playing those lead solo’s, and that he was never totally certain why Jack Douglas turned to him and Dick Wagner to do it. Because everything Dick Wagner does is gold...
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Post by zenman on Aug 31, 2020 15:09:46 GMT
Because edog is right on about Dick Wagner:
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Post by marty on Aug 31, 2020 15:57:23 GMT
Because edog is right on about Dick Wagner: Except I think that’s Steve Hunter.
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Post by marty on Aug 31, 2020 16:04:52 GMT
And in fairness to Brad and Joe, Steve Hunter told me that they were more than capable of playing those lead solo’s, and that he was never totally certain why Jack Douglas turned to him and Dick Wagner to do it. Because everything Dick Wagner does is gold... Plus, exec producer Bob Ezrin worked with Steve, via Alice Cooper and Lou Reed, so he probably had a hand in it.
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Post by zenman on Aug 31, 2020 16:39:30 GMT
Because edog is right on about Dick Wagner: Except I think that’s Steve Hunter. Oops. My bad. Steve Hunter is even listed in the credits. Sheesh. To the Cornfield!
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Post by edog40 on Aug 31, 2020 18:05:54 GMT
Except I think that’s Steve Hunter. Oops. My bad. Steve Hunter is even listed in the credits. Sheesh. To the Cornfield! Maybe just the sorghum field, honest mistake.
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Post by marty on Aug 31, 2020 20:43:47 GMT
Oops. My bad. Steve Hunter is even listed in the credits. Sheesh. To the Cornfield! Maybe just the sorghum field, honest mistake. I would have had no idea, except he grew up around the corner, from me.
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Post by duckbarman on Aug 31, 2020 22:19:54 GMT
I only saw Hunter and Wagner live on the one occasion, and that was on the Alice "Welcome to My Nightmare" tour... and I spent the entire 90 minutes wishing they were somewhere else and that I could have been seeing Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce in their place..., not a "big picture" point of view, I admit, but that's how I felt at the time... when you're a young'un, you get loyal to the members in a band and you don't appreciate "change", because "change" is NOT always for the better....
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Post by Buck on Sept 1, 2020 2:03:05 GMT
I only saw Hunter and Wagner live on the one occasion, and that was on the Alice "Welcome to My Nightmare" tour... and I spent the entire 90 minutes wishing they were somewhere else and that I could have been seeing Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce in their place..., not a "big picture" point of view, I admit, but that's how I felt at the time... when you're a young'un, you get loyal to the members in a band and you don't appreciate "change", because "change" is NOT always for the better.... The original Alice Cooper Band had a style and vibe that the solo Alice never recaptured. And the songs from "Killer" and "Love It To Death" are my favorites to this day. I will say that Alice's current band does a fine job on the great old tunes, and Alice sings better now than he did in the heyday.
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Post by The Ocean on Sept 1, 2020 3:14:24 GMT
I only saw Hunter and Wagner live on the one occasion, and that was on the Alice "Welcome to My Nightmare" tour... and I spent the entire 90 minutes wishing they were somewhere else and that I could have been seeing Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce in their place..., not a "big picture" point of view, I admit, but that's how I felt at the time... when you're a young'un, you get loyal to the members in a band and you don't appreciate "change", because "change" is NOT always for the better.... The original Alice Cooper Band had a style and vibe that the solo Alice never recaptured. And the songs from "Killer" and "Love It To Death" are my favorites to this day. I will say that Alice's current band does a fine job on the great old tunes, and Alice sings better now than he did in the heyday. Speaking of Steve Hunter and Alice Cooper
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Post by frog on Sept 1, 2020 7:08:41 GMT
I only saw Hunter and Wagner live on the one occasion, and that was on the Alice "Welcome to My Nightmare" tour... and I spent the entire 90 minutes wishing they were somewhere else and that I could have been seeing Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce in their place..., not a "big picture" point of view, I admit, but that's how I felt at the time... when you're a young'un, you get loyal to the members in a band and you don't appreciate "change", because "change" is NOT always for the better.... The original Alice Cooper Band had a style and vibe that the solo Alice never recaptured. And the songs from "Killer" and "Love It To Death" are my favorites to this day. I will say that Alice's current band does a fine job on the great old tunes, and Alice sings better now than he did in the heyday.
Totally in phase with that.
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Post by edog40 on Sept 1, 2020 13:33:54 GMT
I only saw Hunter and Wagner live on the one occasion, and that was on the Alice "Welcome to My Nightmare" tour... and I spent the entire 90 minutes wishing they were somewhere else and that I could have been seeing Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce in their place..., not a "big picture" point of view, I admit, but that's how I felt at the time... when you're a young'un, you get loyal to the members in a band and you don't appreciate "change", because "change" is NOT always for the better.... The original Alice Cooper Band had a style and vibe that the solo Alice never recaptured. And the songs from "Killer" and "Love It To Death" are my favorites to this day. I will say that Alice's current band does a fine job on the great old tunes, and Alice sings better now than he did in the heyday. i never expected to see Halo of Flies done live, but did on the tour that Alice (not the restaurant) did his last live album on. They ‘killed’ it.
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