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Feb 23, 2021 · With producer Bob Ezrin at the helm, Love It to Death pared down the eccentric, off-kilter psychedelia of the band’s first two releases, streamlining their sound under the influence of gritty contemporaries like the Stooges, the MC5 and Ted Nugent’s Amboy Dukes.
- 'It Was Easier to Scare The Parents'
- In Search of That Elusive Hit
- One Night at Max's Kansas City
- Detroit Stories from Down on The Farm
- The Hit Within The Sprawl of 'I'm Eighteen'
- 'For Some Reason, We Listened to Bob Ezrin'
- Turning Their Salvador Dali Painting Into Music
- How 'I'm Eighteen' Changed Everything
“Pretties for You” was released in June of 1969. Three months later, they were in Toronto for a date with infamy at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival. Gordon:The first record wasn't a fair representation at all because they didn't really know they were making a record. It all happened in an eight-hour period. They basically thought they were practicing. An...
Despite their growing reputation, “Easy Action” failed to chart when it arrived in March 1970. Gordon:The second album was produced by David Briggs, who’d done the Neil Young record. Technically, it was a record. But the visions were so different that it didn't make any statement at all. Smith: Now we had twostrikes. Very rarely does anybody get a ...
Dunaway:Max's Kansas City at that point wasn't the hottest spot in town anymore. Andy Warhol had taken his paintings home and there were shadows where they used to be. Ezrin:It was a den of black-haired, black-lipped, black-fingernailed wraiths that sort of floated above the floor with ghostly white skin, spandex and spider eyes. Then they all took...
By the time they started preproduction, they were leasing a farmhouse in Pontiac, Michigan — outside of Detroit or, as Dunaway calls it, "the middle of nowhere." Bruce:Bob came to the farm and stayed three or four days. We had a big horse paddock in the back that had a workshop we set up as a 24/7 practice space. It was a four-bedroom farmhouse. Th...
Dunaway:Even though we'd had a hit when we were kids in Phoenix with “Don't Blow Your Mind,” we needed to learn how to make a song AM-friendly. And the reason we couldn't do that is everybody was involved in the writing of every song. So we'd always have enough parts for three songs and force it into one. Ezrin:The impression I took away from Max's...
Cooper:Bob would say “I'm gonna put a cello under the bass.” We're going “On no, don't do that. We don't want to be Moody Blues.” He says, “You're not gonna hear it.” I said, “Why are you doing it then?” He said “To support the bass.” We went, “OK. As long as it doesn't sound like we're getting classical on anybody.” Bruce:He was a piano prodigy. S...
Dunaway:When we walked into Mid-America Recording Center in Chicago with Bob Ezrin, Jack Richardson was wearing his wife's flowery dress and had a baseball bat. He just wanted to let us know these chicken killer guys weren't gonna get the best of him. But he was such a cool guy. He let Bob do his thing. Ezrin:Jack's engineer, Brian Christian, was a...
Released as a single in November 1970, "I'm Eighteen" started climbing the charts after CKLW-FM, a taste-making station in Windsor, Ontario, started spinning it. Cooper:We had no idea that that song was gonna be a hit. At all. In fact, it sounded to me like nothing else on the radio, the Buckinghams and all those bands. I'm going “I don't think the...
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Jun 3, 2017 · Ezrin’s collaboration with the original Alice Cooper band peaked with Billion Dollar Babies, and after one more album, Muscle of Love, which Jack Douglas produced, Alice went solo, reinventing himself with Welcome to My Nightmare. Alice’s new band was a murderer’s row put together by Ezrin that had previously played on Lou Reed’s Berlin ...
Feb 1, 2014 · His pivotal break came in 1970, when he witnessed an Alice Cooper performance at New York’s legendary Max’s Kansas City. Though Ezrin was just 19 at the time, his belief in the Cooper band was strong enough that he convinced Richardson to give him a shot at producing the group.
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Nov 29, 2021 · “However, I was well aware of what he could do in the studio, of the work he’d done with Alice Cooper [Ezrin first joined forces with AC for the 1971 album Love It To Death], which was cinematic and atmospheric, yet still totally rock’n’roll; his fingerprints are all over that stuff, so it was just a no-brainer that he should be our one ...
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Oct 9, 2015 · Cooper and Ezrin stuck together for a string of classic records that started with 1971's Love It to Death and continued through 1977's The Alice Cooper Show — and though they parted ways for a...
