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Power Company (album)
''Power Company'' is an album by the Eric Burdon Band, released in 1983. It features recordings from the Comeback project. It also features live recordings. Track listing Side One # "Power Company" (Bernd Gärtig, Bertram Passmann, Eric Burdon, Frank Diez, Jackie Carter, Jean-Jacques Kravetz, Nippy Noya) # "Devil's Daughter" (Eric Burdon, Iverson Minter) # "You Can't Kill my Spirit" (Tony Greco, Ranji K. Bedi) # "Do You Feel It" (Eric Burdon, John Sterling, Pat Couchois) # "Wicked Man" (George Suranovich, John Sterling, Terry Ryan) Side Two # "Heart Attack" (Chris Couchois, Howard Messer, Pat Couchois) # "Who Gives a Fuck" (Eric Burdon, John Sterling) # "Sweet Blood Call" (Iverson Minter) # "House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional; arranged by Eric Burdon and John Sterling) # "Comeback" (Traditional; arranged by Eric Burdon and John Sterling) Personnel * Eric Burdon - sung, screamed and growled vocals * John Sterling - guitar * Snuffy Walden - guitar * Steve Goldst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Burdon
Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer and songwriter. He was previously the lead vocalist of the rhythm and blues, R&B and Rock music, rock band The Animals and the funk band War (band), War. He is regarded as one of the British Invasion's most distinctive singers with his deep, powerful blues-rock voice. Burdon is also known for his intense stage performances. In 2008, he was ranked 57th in ''Rolling Stone'''s list of "The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time". Early life Eric Burdon was born in 1941 in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His father, Matt, was originally from Tyneside. His mother, Rene, was originally from Ireland and had moved to Scotland before settling in Newcastle in the 1930s. He had a younger sister, Irene. Burdon's middle name, Victor, resulted from a reward of £25 offered by the List of mayors of Newcastle upon Tyne, Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne to mothers who gave their newly born children suitably patriotic names. Burdon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Kravetz
Jean-Jacques Kravetz (born May 23, 1947) is a French keyboardist, saxophonist and composer. He has played in the bands backing German rock singers Udo Lindenberg and Peter Maffay since the 1970s as well as playing with many other German bands as a guest musician. He was the keyboardist for the German progressive rock band Frumpy from 1969 to 1972. Biography Jean-Jacques Kravetz studied alto saxophone and piano at the Conservatoire de Paris The Conservatoire de Paris (), or the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (; CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Ja ... from 1960 until 1965. He founded his first band in Paris in 1965. In 1966 he joined the band Les Piteuls with who he recorded for the first time. In 1967 he moved to Hamburg, Germany and worked as a saxophone teacher at the Hamburger Konservatorium until 1975. He played as a member of the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Braunagel
Tony Braunagel is an American drummer, producer, and songwriter from Houston, Texas, United States, who is based in Los Angeles, California. Braunagel has played on many film scores and television shows as well as numerous albums as a musician, composer and producer. He is best known as a session drummer and/or percussionist of over 200 albums including those of Otis Rush, Eric Burdon, Johnny Nash, Coco Montoya, Lucky Peterson, as well as Grammy winning albums of Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal (musician), Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy (percussion) and for performing live with dozens of music icons including Bonnie Raitt, Rickie Lee Jones, B.B. King, BB King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Bette Midler, Lyle Lovett, and Taj Mahal to name just a few. Braunagel's recording and performing career encompasses numerous and diverse rhythms and drum styles, but he is most known for Rhythm and blues, Rhythm and Blues, Blues, Americana Rock ‘n’ Roll, Blues shuffl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Wilson (musician)
Robert Terry Wilson (born October 4, 1949) is an American bass player, record producer, and composer. Career Wilson was born in Warren south of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. In the late 1960s, he started as a professional musician, playing bass for bands and artists including Blackwell, Bloontz, and John Martyn amongst others. In 1975, he became a member of the rock band Back Street Crawler. Around that time he also worked with Johnny Nash, John Bundrick, Speedy Keen, Paul Travis, Shusha Guppy, Sue Glover, Paul Kossoff, Eddie Quansah, No Slack, Mark Ashton, Geoff Whitehorn, and others. In 1981–1982, he played bass for Eric Burdon on the album '' Comeback'' and on live shows, as well as the ''Rockpalast'' concert. He was also credited on many later released compilations of Burdon and as the composer of The Animals's 1983 reggae/rock-single, "Love is for all Time" (which was performed during the live shows of his wife, Teresa James). Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, he work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Barron
Ronnie Barron (born Ronald Raymond Barrosse, October 9, 1943, in Algiers, New Orleans – March 20, 1997) was an American actor, keyboardist, organist, and blue-eyed soul singer during the 1970s. He was known for his work as a session musician, and a sideman for several artists, as well as his collaborations with Dr. John, a fellow New Orleans native. Musicians who employed him include Paul Butterfield, Canned Heat, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, and others. Barron met Mac Rebennack in 1958 and performed with him at several venues around New Orleans. They were classmates at Jesuit High School in New Orleans. During that period, he created the Reverend Ether persona to satisfy audiences who were primarily interested in entertainers. Rebennack was so impressed with the gimmick that he wanted Barron to become Dr. John. Barron was hired by Sonny and Cher in 1965, and relocated to California to become a session musician, and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of The Rising Sun
"The House of the Rising Sun" is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the US and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit". The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song. It is listed as number 6393 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Origin and early versions Origin Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad " The Unfortunate Rake" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iverson Minter
Iverson Minter (March 23, 1932 – February 25, 2012), known professionally as Louisiana Red, was an American blues guitarist, harmonica player, and singer, who recorded more than 50 albums. A master of slide guitar, he played both traditional acoustic and urban electric styles, with lyrics both honest and often remarkably personal. His career includes collaborations with artists as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Eric Burdon, and others. Early life Born March 23, 1932, in Bessemer, Alabama, Minter lost his parents early in life; his mother died of pneumonia shortly after his birth, and his father was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1937, prompting an aunt to place him in an orphanage. He later lived with his grandmother and an uncle in Pittsburgh.Wynn, Ron. Louisiana Red: Biography Allmusic.com. At sixteen, Minter lied about his age and joined the U.S. Army, serving in Korea during the Korean War. Minter was assigned to a labor battalion and spent his evenings belting out the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nippy Noya
Nippy Noya (born 27 February 1946) is an Indonesian, Netherlands-based percussionist and songwriter, specialising in congas, kalimba, bongos, campana, güiro, cabasa, shekere, caxixi, triangle and the berimbau. History Son of Japanese Taiko drummer Fusao San Nakato, he was born on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and came to Europe in 1968. He began his professional career as a conga player in Amsterdam with percussion-rock band Massada. He played with them till 2016 on and off whilst becoming a sought-after musician; he made a one-off return for the recording of their 2018-released live dvd. Artists he since played and recorded with include Peter Herbolzheimer, John McLaughlin, Jan Akkerman, Hellmut Hattler, Volker Kriegel, Earth and Fire, Stan Getz and Dick Morrissey. In addition he toured with Richard Tee, Eric Burdon, Billy Cobham, Miko Aleksic Chaka Khan, Peter Maffay, Udo Lindenberg, Gitte Haenning, John Hondorp and Herbert Grönemeyer. He also taught and perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power Company (song)
Power Company is a song written and performed by Eric Burdon. It was released in 1980. Background The first version of the song was recorded with "Eric Burdon's Fire Dept." in April 1980 in France. It was released as a single and peaked No. 11 in Austria. In 1981, Burdon recorded a different rendition, released on the 1983 album ''Power Company The Power Company is a team of superheroes-for-hire in the DC Comics universe. The team, created by Kurt Busiek and Tom Grummett, first appeared in '' JLA'' #61 (February 2002). They subsequently starred in an eponymous series that ran for eigh ...''. In 1992 another version, recorded 1981, was released on ''The Unreleased Eric Burdon''. References {{Eric Burdon Eric Burdon songs 1980 singles 1980 songs Songs written by Eric Burdon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comeback (1982 Film)
''Comeback'' is a 1982 semi-autobiographical film starring Eric Burdon of rock band The Animals and funk rock band War. It was shot first in Los Angeles then in Berlin. In spring 1984, MGM released the film on VHS. A soundtrack to the movie was also released in 1982, '' Comeback''. Premise A once-famous blues singer whose career has taken a downturn tries to get back on top. Cast * Eric Burdon as Rocco * Julie Carmen as Tina * Michael Cavanaugh as The Manager * John Aprea as Lawyer * Louisiana Red as "Louisiana" * Jorg Pfennigwerth as Paul * Blackie Dammett as "Heavy" * Edwin Craig as "Freak" * Emily Woods as Laura * Bob Lockwood as Marilyn * Rosa King as Rosa * Blair Ashleigh as Liz * Dan van Husen Dan van Husen (30 April 1945 – 31 May 2020) was a German actor. He started his career in the 1960s, playing in a number of Spaghetti Westerns (usually he was cast as the bad guy), and also performed in Italian and German films by renowned direc ... as Zuhaelter / Pimp * Harr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Used To Be An Animal
''I Used to Be an Animal'' is a studio album by the English singer Eric Burdon, released in 1988 by Metronome Records. It was his first studio album in almost four years. It was recorded at Indigo Ranch in Malibu, California. Following his autobiography, ''I Used to Be an Animal, but I'm All Right Now'' (1986), it was his comeback. "Going Back to Memphis", "Run for Your Life", "Don't Give a Damn" and "I Will Be with You Again" were released as singles worldwide. Burdon mixed several pop and rock-influenced styles like jungle, new wave, disco, alternative rock, hip hop, glam metal, electronica and blues. Track listing All songs were composed by Eric Burdon and Steve Grant; except where noted. Side A # "I Used to Be an Animal" (Geoff Bastow, Eric Burdon, Michael Jackson-Clark) – 3:19 # "The Dream" (Burdon) – 1:33 # "American Dreams" – 3:36 # "Going Back to Memphis" – 4:12 # "Leo's Place" – 4:07 Side B #"Run for Your Life" – 4:15 # "Don't Give a Damn" (Eric Burdon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
