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Ant-Bee
Ant-Bee (stage-name for Billy James) is an American experimental musician and writer. In his musical work, he is a psychedelic era revivalist, working with members of The Mothers of Invention; the original members of the Alice Cooper (band), Alice Cooper group, and Captain Beefheart's Captain Beefheart#The Magic Band, Magic Band. Founder of Glass Onyon PR, he has represented music artists including King Crimson, Jon Anderson, Michael Bruce (musician), Michael Bruce, Greg Lake, Mitch Mitchell, John Wetton, and others. As a recording artist with the name ANT-BEE, he is a multi-instrumentalist who has recorded and performed with musicians including members of the original Alice Cooper group Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith (drummer), Neal Smith; the original Mothers of Invention; Bruce Cameron (guitarist), Bruce Cameron, and others; and produced his four solo albums, including Lunar Musik and Electronic Church Muzik. As a writer, he has co-authored and authored biographi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
With My Favorite "Vegetables" & Other Bizarre Muzik
''With My Favorite "Vegetables" & Other Bizarre Muzik'' is the second album by Ant-Bee, released in 1994 through Divine Records. Track listing Personnel ;Musicians *Greg Brosius (Lunar Egg-Clips) – keyboards, freaky laughter *Bunk Gardner – saxophone, snorks, wheezes, assorted screams * Billy James (The Ant-Bee) – vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards, mellotron, tape manipulations, production, illustration *Paul Lamb (Mr. Lambchop) – bass guitar, French horn *Rod Martin (Mod Martion) – guitar *Marc Ray Oxendine (The Tragic Sunbeam) – bass guitar, psaltery * Don Preston (Dom DeWilde) – keyboards, vegetables, assorted transformations *Scott Renfroe (Reoccurring Schizms) – tape manipulations ;Production and additional personnel * Jimmy Carl Black (The Indian of the Group) – spoken word, assorted munchkinisms *John Criss (Mr. Crisp) – piano on "Moonpie" * Roy Estrada (Pachuco Falsetto) – bizarre la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pure Electric Honey (album)
''Pure Electric Honey'' is the debut studio album by Ant-Bee, released in 1990 by VOXX Records. Release Originally, the album was made available only on vinyl. In 2005, it was remastered and released on CD for the first time accompanied by the 1988 ''Through the Window Pain'' demo. ''Pure Electric Honey'', along with Ant-Bee's other works, is currently issued under and can be purchased through Barking Moondog Records' online store."Bizarre News"Ant-Bee News cited March 25, 2011 Track listing Personnel Adapted from ''Pure Electric Honey'' liner notes. * Billy James (as The Ant-Bee) – vocals, drums, percussion, tablas, guitar, keyboards, tape, production, illustration ;Musicians * Timmy Cannon (as Ymmit) – bagpipes * Charlotte (as Fuzzy Martin) – backwards violin * Bob & Thana Harris (as Rantin' & Ravin') – rantin' & ravin' * Roy Herman (as Herman Monster) – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, beast guitars * Scott Kolden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunar Muzik
''Lunar Muzik'' is the third studio album by Ant-Bee, released in 1997 by Divine Records. Track listing Personnel Adapted from ''Lunar Muzik'' liner notes. ;Musicians *Daevid Allen (Father Gong) – guitar, engineering *Harvey Bainbridge (Hawklord) – synthesizer, engineering *Michael Owen Bruce (Mr. Nice Guy) – guitar, bass guitar, sitar, keyboards *Paul Bruce (Little Joe) – keyboards *Glen Buxton (Zillion Dollar Guitarist) – guitar *Dennis Dunaway – bass guitar *Bunk Gardner – saxophone, clarinet, spoken word, vegetables * Billy James (The Ant-Bee) – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion, keyboards, tape manipulations, production *Steve Kale (Brainyak) – guitar, harmonica *J.K. Lofton (Mix Doctor) – guitar synthesizer, bass guitar, engineering *Rod Martin (Mod Martion) – guitar, bass guitar *Lan Nichols (Kapri-Korn) – bass guitar *Don Preston (Dom DeWilde) – keyboards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bruce (musician)
Michael Owen Bruce (born March 16, 1948) is an American musician. He is the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist for the rock band Alice Cooper. Early life Michael Owen Bruce was born to Alvin and Ruth (Owen) Bruce. The Bruce and Owen families had moved to Arizona from Kansas. The family ancestry includes Cherokee, Scottish, Irish, English and Norman French. Ruth's father, Clarence Glenn Owen, was a veteran of World War I and also a professional baseball player: "Blacky" Owen. "Al" was in the military during the 1940s and Ruth played piano on the radio and performed for many U.S.O. functions. After the military, "Al" worked for The Coca-Cola Company. Michael and his brothers, David and Paul, attended North High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Bruce began his professional music career in the mid-1960s. Like so many young people of that time, he found inspiration in the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. After playing with The Trolls, Michael became part of Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Cameron (guitarist)
Bruce Cameron (1955 – October 16, 1999)Michael Bruce, Billy James (2000). No More Mr. Nice Guy: The Inside Story of the Original Alice Cooper Group. SAF Publishing Ltd. was an American guitarist who managed to attract a number of famous rock-and-roll musicians to record his 1999 debut and only album, '' Midnight Daydream'', released by Brain Cell Records (North Carolina). The unlikely cast of supporting musicians for this album included: *Jack Bruce (Cream, B.L.T., and solo career). *Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, and Ramatam). *Buddy Miles (Band of Gypsys, Electric Flag, Buddy Miles Express). *Ken Hensley ( Uriah Heep, Blackfoot). *Harvey Dalton Arnold ( Outlaws). * Neal Smith (Alice Cooper). * Michael Bruce (Alice Cooper). *Bunk Gardner (The Mothers of Invention). *Billy James (Ant-Bee). *Billy Cox (Band of Gypsys, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows). The entire album was recorded and engineered by Derrick Acker of Quetzal Recording and Bruce Came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Smith (drummer)
Neal Smith (born September 23, 1947) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock group Alice Cooper from 1967 to 1974. He performed on the group's early albums ''Pretties for You'' and ''Easy Action'', their breakout album ''Love It to Death'' and the subsequent successful albums ''Killer'', '' School's Out'', and ''Billion Dollar Babies''. The last new studio album with the five original Alice Cooper group members participating in new music was ''Muscle of Love'' in 1973. The original group's ''Greatest Hits'' studio album was released in 1974. In 2018 (fifty years after the original group debuted its new group name Alice Cooper in 1968), a live performance album '' Live from the Astroturf'' recorded in 2015 was released, featuring four of the original group members performing eight of their hit songs, with long-time Alice Cooper solo band guitarist and friend Ryan Roxie interplaying lead guitar parts with original group rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, on be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Dunaway
Dennis Dunaway (born December 9, 1946, in Cottage Grove, Oregon) is an American musician, best known as the original bass guitarist for the rock band Alice Cooper (1962–1975, 1999, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021). He co-wrote some of the band's most notable songs, including "I'm Eighteen" and " School's Out". Career Dunaway's first bass was a short-scale Airline. This was used on Alice Cooper's debut album ''Pretties for You''. The band's sophomore album, ''Easy Action'', featured Dunaway playing a short-scale Höfner. Later, Dunaway procured a Gibson EB-0 short scale bass, modified with a Fender Precision Bass split pickup in the treble position, that he spray painted green and called "the frog". He can be seen with it on the back cover of the ''Love it to Death'' album. Dunaway used this bass exclusively in the making of the original Alice Cooper group's first three albums. It currently is on loan to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Dunaway would later switch to a Fender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoot Horn Rollo
Bill Harkleroad (born January 8, 1949), known professionally as Zoot Horn Rollo, is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. In 2003, he was ranked No. 62 in a ''Rolling Stone'' magazine list of "the 100 greatest guitarists of all time". Biography Born in Hawthorne, California, Harkleroad was trained as an accordionist as a child but changed to guitar in his teens. In nearby Lancaster, California, he became involved in local bands. With a future member of the Magic Band, Mark Boston, he joined a band named B.C. & The Cavemen. The two later played in the group Blues in a Bottle along with the future Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton. He joined the Magic Band in 1968 after the departure of Alex St. Clair. After recording ''Trout Mask Replica'' and several further albums, he left in 1974, with several other band members, to form Mallard. His book, ''Lunar Notes'', describes some of the tensions that contributed to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Harkleroad
Bill Harkleroad (born January 8, 1949), known professionally as Zoot Horn Rollo, is an American guitarist. He is best known for his work with Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. In 2003, he was ranked No. 62 in a ''Rolling Stone'' magazine list of "the 100 greatest guitarists of all time". Biography Born in Hawthorne, California, Harkleroad was trained as an accordionist as a child but changed to guitar in his teens. In nearby Lancaster, California, he became involved in local bands. With a future member of the Magic Band, Mark Boston, he joined a band named B.C. & The Cavemen. The two later played in the group Blues in a Bottle along with the future Magic Band guitarist Jeff Cotton. He joined the Magic Band in 1968 after the departure of Alex St. Clair. After recording ''Trout Mask Replica'' and several further albums, he left in 1974, with several other band members, to form Mallard. His book, ''Lunar Notes'', describes some of the tensions that contributed to the sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Mitchell
John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 194612 November 2008)In his book about the Experience, Mitchell states he celebrated his 21st birthday while on tour on 9 July 1967, which makes his birth year 1946.Mitchell's obituaries in ''Billboard' ''The New York Times'and ''Rolling Stone'indicate that he was 62 years old at the time of his death (making his birth year 1946). Other obituaries and writers have indicated he was 61 or was born on 9 July 1947: BBCbr> ''Drummerworld' ''Encyclopædia Britannica' ''The Guardian' ''Los Angeles Times' ''NME' NPRbr> ''The Oregonian' '' The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph' '' Variety (magazine), Variety' Colin Larkin (writer), Colin Larkin in ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' (Concise 4th Editionand Harry Shapiro (author), Harry Shapiro in ''Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy'/ref> was an English drummer and child actor, who was best known for his work in the Jimi Hendrix Experience for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Daydream
''Midnight Daydream'' is the only studio album by Bruce Cameron, released in 1999. Track listing #"Midnight Daydream" – 6:42 #"Doctor Please" – 4:52 #"Mind Gardens" – 5:24 #"Miles Away" – 3:29 #"Born to Lose" – 5:32 #"I Want to Be Late" – 4:19 #"Forever Rebel Girls" – 6:18 #"Just Like a Spaceman" – 3:57 #"So Aliens Have Been Here" – 4:25 #"A Thousand Moons" – 3:54 #"Raining the Blues" – 4:39 #"Day After Yesterday" – 3:27 #"Falling Up a Mountain" – 4:09 #"She's So Gone" – 2:28 Midnight Dream is now available as a free full MP3 download from Cameron's label, Brain Cell Records: http://www.soundtrax.net/download/MidnightDaydream.htm 1999 albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
