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Jun 3, 2017 · “That’s how I became a record producer,” Ezrin says. It was fortuitous for Cooper and Ezrin to hook up at the time. Ezrin would help transform Cooper into the rock Frankenstein he became, and he was building his strengths as a producer in the process.
Feb 1, 2014 · Record producer Bob Ezrin talks about his work on such seminal records as Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies, Pink Floyd's The Wall and Lou Reed's Berlin.
Jun 1, 2009 · Larry LeBlanc - former Canadian bureau chief for Billboard from 1991-2007 - spoke with legendary producer Bob Ezrin (PINK FLOYD, ALICE COOPER, KISS) for the weekly LeBlanc Newsletter. A few excerpts follow: LeBlanc: Was working with Alice Cooper your 'high school' as a producer? Ezrin: "Oh, it was my grade school. It was kindergarten.
Robert Alan Ezrin OC (born March 25, 1949) is a Canadian music producer and keyboardist, best known for his work with Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Andrea Bocelli and Phish.
- '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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Nov 28, 2021 · This is the story of how they got to "Killer," told by Cooper and the other three surviving members of the Alice Cooper group (Buxton died in 1997), manager Shep Gordon and the man they like to...
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Mar 20, 2020 · Welcome To My Nightmare, released in 1975, was Coop’s first solo LP. It’s an ambitious album that catapulted his career into the next phase. With Bob Ezrin as a fixed partner in the mix but no “band,” so to speak, Alice found himself in new territory.
