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Michael Fennelly

Michael Fennelly was created in 1949 in NY but moved to L.A., where he became involved with California’s pop/protest motion. By 1967, Fennelly got secured a posting cope with songwriter/manufacturer Curt Boettcher’s Mee Moo Music and joined up with Boettcher’s studio-based collective of music artists, like the two primary groups, …

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Piknik

Working off the essential assumption that Soviet rock and roll can be demarcated by lyrics a lot more than music, Piknik’s contribution was its focus on the inner lives of humans, as manifested by personal dream. Through the psyche of Piknik’s introverted head Edmund Shklarsky surfaced Gothic motifs, whose mysticism …

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Zappa Plays Zappa

After taking a lot more than 3 years off to review the physical performance and technical compositional techniques of his father, Frank Zappa, Dweezil Zappa began his search to make a combo that could, according to Dweezil, “accurately execute Frank’s music in one of the most authentic way humanly possible.” …

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Edison Electric Band

Released in 1970, the Edison Electric Band’s single album mixed some blues-rock, R&B, and psychedelia, though it didn’t graph or get very much attention upon its discharge for the Atlantic subsidiary Cotillion in 1970. Shaped in 1966 in Philadelphia, the group performed on the neighborhood circuit and do some gigging …

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Rated X

An arena-ready American hard rock-band with an extraordinary pop/rock and roll pedigree, Rated X was shaped across the considerable abilities of iconic vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Crimson), guitarist Karl Cochran (Ace Frehley), as well as the seasoned ex-Blue Murder tempo section (bass participant Tony Franklin (the Company, Whitesnake), …

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Rockhead

After guitarist Bob Rock and roll and drummer Chris Taylor worked well together in Rock and roll & Hyde in the past due ’80s, they formed Rockhead with vocalist Steve Jack port and bassist Jamey Kosh. The quartet released an individual (“Heartland”) and a self-titled debut recording in 1992.

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Space Opera

Space Opera were formed in the past due ’60s by Brett Wilson (drums/percussion), Philip White colored (bass/acoustic guitar/keyboards/vocals), Scott Fraser (acoustic guitar/keyboards/vocals), and David Bullock (electric guitar/flute/harmonica/vocals). (Basically Wilson had made an appearance in the one-off studio room group Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit & Greenhill, whose lone LP became a collector’s …

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The Asylum Choir

The Asylum Choir was the past due-’60s duo of session keyboard player Leon Russell (b. Apr 2, 1942) and guitarist Marc Benno (b.July 1, 1947). They produced two albums, 1968’s Appear In the Asylum Choir and Asylum Choir II. Although latter was documented in Apr 1969, it had been not …

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The Billion Dollar Babies

In 1977, three of Alice Cooper’s former band users recorded just a little known album with no influential shock rocker and called themselves the Billion Buck Babies. That 12 months, Mike Bruce (acoustic guitar, vocals), Dennis Dunaway (bass) and Neal Smith (drums) teamed up with keyboardist Bob Dolin and guitarist/ …

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Ballin’ Jack

A jazz-rock instrumental sextet of the first ’70s that charted briefly using its debut recording Ballin’ Jack as well as the solitary “NET.”

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