Stark Naked

Crate-crawling rock fans who’ve just encountered the band Stark Nude in record declare them a dark prog rock-band that flirted with hard rock, but their Lengthy Island, NY, hometown group of fans don’t forget them as having an enormous, theatrical stage show that serves like Kiss and Alice Cooper would later on emulate. Associates Lyne Bunn (vocals), Richard Belsky (business lead electric guitar), Jim Monahan (electric guitar), Tom Rubino (bass), Paul Venier (keyboards), and John Fragos (drums) had been either within their teenagers or early twenties when their band’s self-titled debut was released by RCA in 1971. The record climbed to the quantity six slot over the graphs but while on the tour supporting the discharge, the band’s cash vanished. They accused their lacking manager of earning off with the money, became disillusioned using the music business, and shortly split up. Venier and Fragos weren’t from the business a long time before teaming once more in the music group Salty Dog, a difficult rock and relatively prog clothing that documented and toured through the entire ’70s. Venier would afterwards turn into a standup comedian and go back to music in 2003 along with his gentle rock-band, V, and their debut full-length, Better Past due Than Never.