Edward Hoh (October 16, 1944 – November 7, 2015) was an American rock drummer who was active in the 1960s. Although primarily a studio session and touring drummer, Hoh exhibited a degree of originality and showmanship that set him apart and several of his contributions have been singled out for acknowledgment by music critics. Often uncredited and unknown to audiences, he played the drums on several well-known rock songs and albums, including those by

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and

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. He also performed at the seminal 1967

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as a member of

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touring band. In 1968, he participated in the recording of '' Super Session'', the highly successful 1968

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collaboration album. However, his flurry of activity came to an end by the early 1970s and he remained out of the public eye until his death in 2015.

Early career

Hoh was born and raised in

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, a western suburb of Chicago. While a teenager, he played with several local bands and met area musicians Michael Bloomfield and

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. After Hoh relocated to Los Angeles in 1964, he became known on the club circuit and drummed for the Joel Scott Hill groups the Strangers and the Invaders. Hill recorded several singles and the Strangers were an opening act for the 1964 ''

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'', headlined by

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and

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. However, they did not appear in the concert film and it is unknown if Hoh recorded with Hill. Phil Spector with MFQ 1965

In September 1965, Hoh joined members of the

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as the group was venturing into electric

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, Henry "Tad" Diltz, and

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made up the quartet and each became involved in various aspects of the music industry and Hoh's career. The group was renamed the Modern Folk Quintet (usually shortened to MFQ), and

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decided to become their producer. Despite a lot of time spent with Spector in rehearsals and recording at

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, only one song came out of their association, "This Could Be the Night". To the group's dismay, it was not issued as a single, but was used as the theme to '' The Big T.N.T. Show'', the 1966 follow-up concert film to the ''T.A.M.I. Show''. In March 1966, MFQ recorded a single for

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, produced by Spector associate

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. The song "Night Time Girl", written by

and

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, reached number 122 on ''Billboard'' magazine's

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on April 16, 1966. A second Dunhill MFQ single, the double A-side "Don't You Wonder" backed with "I Had a Dream Last Night", was released in 1968, but Hoh's participation is unknown. The MFQ were a fixture on the Los Angeles club scene and opened for such groups as the

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, Donovan,

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, Mamas and the Papas, and

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. They undertook a college tour across the U.S., however, a breakthrough eluded them and they disbanded by July 1966. In 1966, Hoh contributed drums to Scottish singer

's third album, '' Sunshine Superman''. The album was recorded at the CBS studios in Hollywood and included songs such as " Season of the Witch", "Fat Angel", and "The Trip" (the

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was previously recorded in London with a different drummer). Hoh accompanied Donovan during area engagements with ex-MFQ member Cyrus Faryar on electric violin. Donovan's experiences at the Trip club were recounted in "The Trip" and Hoh's "fine drumming" was noted in a review of the song. ''Sunshine Superman'' became Donovan's most popular record and reached number eleven in the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart.

1967

In 1967, Eddie Hoh's recording and touring activities accelerated. In March 1967, he performed with the Byrds' former singer-songwriter

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. Clark, who had recorded a country-influenced album with the Gosdin Brothers, was continuing to develop his

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sound. With Hoh, guitarist

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, and bassist

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and the

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. However, according to York, Clark was largely indifferent to audiences and the group did not last long: Country rock biographer John Einarson writes that Gene Clark's band with Hoh, White, and York never recorded, while a White website indicates that around the same time, they recorded Clark's aborted Columbia single, "The French Girl"/"Only Colombe" (eventually released on Clark's 1991 ''Echoes'' album). Around the same time, Hoh recorded with a studio group named the Giant Sunflower, which included future record producer

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. Their first single, "February Sunshine", was released by two record companies simultaneously in April 1967: Take 6 Records and

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, where it was the first record issued by producer

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's new record label. Ode won out and "February Sunshine" debuted at number 106 on ''Billboard's'' June 3, 1967, extended pop chart. Promoted as a

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record, it was followed in October by the second Giant Sunflower single "

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". Without a touring band, a Los Angeles folk-rock group, the Rose Garden (without Hoh), sometimes performed as the "Giant Sunflower" and later recorded "February Sunshine" and two unrecorded Gene Clark compositions for their debut album. Hoh became a part of

touring group and on June 18, 1967, they appeared as the final act at the Monterey Pop Festival (singer

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was one of the event's organizers). Although several songs were filmed, only "

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" and "Got a Feelin'" made the final cut of the ''

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'' concert film. The complete Mamas and the Papas set was released on an album in 1970 and additional film footage was included in ''The Complete Monterey Pop Festival'' DVD set in 2002. A review of the album described Hoh's drumming as "first rate". During the extended instrumental introduction to their first song, Eddie Hoh plays an improvised drum part; at the conclusion of their set, Hoh and studio drummer

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play in tandem as the singers leave the stage. While touring with the group, Hoh took part in after-hours club jams. Another touring musician recalled Also in June, Hoh recorded the '' Goodbye and Hello'' album with experimental folk singer-songwriter

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. The album was produced by former MFQ member Jerry Yester, which critic Matthew Greenwald called "a revolutionary album that was a quantum leap for both Tim Buckley and the audience". Greenwald singled out "Once I Was" and "Pleasant Street" as "tracks

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are easily among the finest example of Buckley's psychedelic/folk vision". Rough

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material from the album session was released in 1999 on Buckley's '' Works in Progress''. Eddie Hoh also became

' studio drummer (following Hal Blaine) and played on many of their songs. From their beginning in 1966, producers used a variety of session musicians to record the Monkees' material, including Blaine and several others from the Wrecking Crew. It is unclear which, if any, of the songs on their first three albums include Hoh. However, starting with their fourth album, '' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.'' (with ex-MFQ member Chip Douglas now as their producer), Hoh has been identified as the drummer on many Monkees' songs released in 1967 and 1968. Among his contributions are "

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", the jazz-influenced "Goin' Down", "

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", the second studio version recording of "Words", "

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", and "

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", which ends with extended improvised drumming.

1968

In 1968, singer/organist

, who was working for

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after he left

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, put together a recording session with former Paul Butterfield Blues Band/

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guitarist

. According to Kooper, Bloomfield chose Hoh as the drummer. When Bloomfield was unable to finish the session, Kooper called guitarist

, who was between gigs with

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and

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. Upon hearing that Hoh was the drummer, Stills readily agreed, describing Hoh as "an old friend of mine". The resulting album, titled '' Super Session'', became an unlikely hit. The first half of the album features mostly electric blues-style instrumentals with Bloomfield, while the second with Stills is rock oriented with vocals. Hoh and bassist Harvey Brooks are the rhythm section for the whole album (

contributes electric piano to one song). All of the ''Super Session'' participants had performed at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival – Hoh with the Mamas and the Papas, Kooper as a solo act, Stills with Buffalo Springfield, and Bloomfield, Brooks, and Goldberg with the Electric Flag. One of the songs with Stills is an eleven-minute version of "Season of the Witch", which Hoh had originally recorded with Donovan in 1966. It became a staple of late-sixties "

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" FM radio and a review of the song noted Hoh's "flawless drumming which laid down as solid a groove as Stills and Kooper could have ever hoped for". Another Kooper/Stills song is a rendition of

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' blues classic " You Don't Love Me". Hoh's drum part is prominent with the heavy use of

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(a sound processing effect) on the track. ''Super Session'' reached number eleven in the album chart and became one of Columbia's best-selling albums of the late 1960s. It was also the best-selling album of both Bloomfield's and Kooper's careers and Stills' first gold record. Although Hoh had already played drums on several well-known songs, he was relatively unknown to audiences. However, with ''Super Session'' he acquired a higher public profile, with his name and photograph given equal prominence on the back album cover. In addition to ''Super Session'', Hoh participated in several album recording sessions for blues-oriented musicians from Chicago, including singer/harmonica player

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, guitarist

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, and keyboard player Barry Goldberg. The three had recorded the '' Stand Back! Here Comes Charley Musselwhite's Southside Band'' album in 1967. With Hoh and new backing musicians, Musselwhite recorded his second album, ''Stone Blues''. Hoh also contributed drums to the mostly instrumental

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1968 album by Mandel, ''Cristo Redentor'', featuring another staple of late-sixties FM radio, "

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". As part of the Barry Goldberg Reunion, he was the drummer for ''There's No Hole in My Soul''. Other recordings with Mandel and Goldberg included ''Mighty Graham Bond'', the Goldberg-produced album by the English blues-band leader/organist

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. Eddie Hoh also contributed to singer/organist

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' debut album ''Carnival of Life'' (both he and Michaels earlier played with Joel Scott Hill). When Michaels' album was released, the personnel listing seemed to indicate that Hoh had only recorded one of the songs, "My Friends". However, in an album review, Greenwald described "excellent performances by Michaels and especially drummer Eddie Hoh". Later, Michaels and Hoh recorded four demos with

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, Jim Messina, and Rusty Young after their final recordings for Buffalo Springfield. With a new lineup, they became the country rock group

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, but the material from the demo sessions has not been released. Hoh is also credited with the drums for

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's '' Outrageous'' album.

1969

During 1969, Hoh continued to record and perform with Barry Goldberg (''Two Jews Blues'', ''Barry Goldberg & Friends'', and ''Recorded Live Barry Goldberg & Friends'') and Harvey Mandel (''Righteous''). Critic Eugene Chadbourne commented in a review of ''Barry Goldberg & Friends'': In April, he performed with Mandel at a Mercury Records-sponsored festival called the ''Flying Bear Medicine Show'', portions of which were released on an album by the same name. Also performing at the festival was Tongue and Groove, described as "something of an offshoot of the legendary, but little recorded, early San Francisco hippie group the Charlatans". Hoh contributed drums to their only album, the self-titled ''Tongue & Groove''. He also drummed on ''What That Is'', the 1969 album by

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performer

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. Hoh joined

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and Jerry Yester for the songs "Horses on a Stick" and "Charity", which were included on ''

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'', the duo's 1969 folk/psychedelic album. Goldberg and Hoh participated in a demo session with ex-''

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''-Byrds

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, who was looking to form a new country rock group. The session yielded a remake of Parsons' earlier song "Do You Know How It Feels". When Parsons later hooked up with other musicians to form the

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, he invited Hoh to become their drummer. He played on their early recording sessions, but by then had started to develop a substance abuse problem. According to the group's

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, "Eddie would come to the sessions and fall off of the drum stool he would be so out of it". Only "Sin City" and the demo song with Parsons (with later overdubs) were used for the group's debut album, ''

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''. Jon Corneal, who was brought in to drum on several of the album's songs, recalled "As I understand it they gave Eddie Hoh an equal share of the cash advance rom the record companyand then he split. He ended up with my money". Corneal's account was echoed by Parsons.

Later years

Some time after a last album with Harvey Mandel (''Games Guitars Play'', released in 1970), Eddie Hoh apparently stopped recording and performing. In a 2002 quote about the Mamas and the Papas,

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believed Hoh had died. A 2006 biography in ''Great Rock Drummers of the Sixties'' concluded he "reportedly has been out of the music business for some time, down on his luck". Hoh was out of the public eye for the remainder of his life. He died in a nursing home in Westmont, Illinois, on November 7, 2015, aged 71, from undisclosed causes.

Discography

Since most of Hoh's recordings were as a session drummer, his credits are sometimes unclear or nonexistent. Albums with some tracks known to have been recorded without Hoh are marked with an asterisk (*). He appears on several compilation and career retrospective albums by artists with whom he worked. * "This Could Be the Night" ('' The Big T.N.T. Show'' soundtrack) – Modern Folk Quintet (frequently listed on reissues as "Modern Folk Quartet") (11/1965) * "Night Time Girl"/"Lifetime" (single) – Modern Folk Quintet/MFQ (3/1966) * '' Sunshine Superman''* –

(9/1966) * "February Sunshine"/"Big Apple" (single) – The Giant Sunflower (4/1967) * "

"/"

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" (single) – The Monkees (7/1967) * '' Goodbye and Hello'' –

(8/1967) * "

"/"Mark Twain" (single) – The Giant Sunflower (10/1967) * '' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.''* –

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(11/1967) * ''Carnival of Life''* –

(2/1968) * '' The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees''* – The Monkees (4/1968) * '' Super Session'' –

(7/1968) * ''Cristo Redentor''* –

(1968) * ''There's No Hole in My Soul'' –

Reunion (1968) * ''Stone Blues'' –

(1968) * ''Mighty Grahame Bond'' –

(1968) * '' Outrageous'' –

(1968) * ''

Head A head is the part of an organism which usually includes the ears, brain, forehead, cheeks, chin, eyes, nose, and mouth, each of which aid in various sensory functions such as sight, hearing, smell, and taste. Some very simple animals may ...

''* – The Monkees (12/1968) * ''

'' (film) –

The Mamas & the Papas The Mamas & the Papas were a folk rock vocal group formed in Los Angeles, California, which recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968. The group was a defining force in the music scene of the counterculture of the 1960s. The group consisted of Am ...

(12/1968, filmed 1967) * ''

''* –

The Flying Burrito Brothers The Flying Burrito Brothers are an American country rock band, best known for their influential 1969 debut album, ''The Gilded Palace of Sin''. Although the group is perhaps best known for its connection to band founders Gram Parsons and Chris ...

(2/1969) * ''

Instant Replay Instant replay or action replay is a video reproduction of something that recently occurred which was both shot and broadcast live. The video, having already been shown live, is replayed in order for viewers to see again and analyze what had j ...

''* – The Monkees (2/1969) * ''Two Jews Blues'' – Barry Goldberg (1969) * ''Righteous''* – Harvey Mandel (1969) * ''Flying Bear Medicine Show''* – jam with Harvey Mandel and members of Linn County,

the McCoys The McCoys were a rock music, rock group formed in Union City, Indiana, Union City, Indiana, United States, in 1962. They are best known for their 1965 hit single "Hang On Sloopy". Their name was changed from Rick and the Raiders to The McCoys, ...

, Buddy Miles Express, and

Sir Douglas Quintet The Sir Douglas Quintet was an American Rock music, rock band, formed in San Antonio in 1964. With their first hits, they were acclaimed in their home state. When their career was established (subsequent to working with Texas record producer Huey ...

(1969) * ''Tongue & Groove''* – Tongue and Groove (1969) * ''What That Is'' –

(1969) * ''

''* –

and

(1969) * ''Barry Goldberg & Friends'' (w/various names) – Barry Goldberg (1969) * ''Games Guitars Play'' — Harvey Mandel (1970) * ''Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival'' – The Mamas & the Papas (1970, recorded 1967) * ''Barry Goldberg & Friends Recorded Live'' (w/various names) – Barry Goldberg (various dates, recorded circa 1969) * '' Works in Progress''* – Tim Buckley (1999, recorded 1967–1968) * ''The Complete Monterey Pop Festival'' (DVD set) – The Mamas & the Papas (2002, filmed 1967) * ''

Good Times! ''Good Times!'' is the twelfth studio album by American pop rock band the Monkees. Produced mainly by Adam Schlesinger (with some additional bonus tracks produced by Andrew Sandoval), the album was recorded to commemorate the band's 50th anniversa ...

''* –

(2016, features some basic tracks recorded as early as 1968)

Notes

Footnotes Citations References * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoh, Eddie 1944 births 2015 deaths American session musicians American rock drummers Musicians from Chicago People from Forest Park, Illinois Modern Folk Quartet members