''Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker'' is the third album by
the Joe Perry Project
The Joe Perry Project is an American rock band formed by Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry. Perry formed the band shortly before his departure from Aerosmith in 1979. The Joe Perry Project signed a record deal almost immediately after Perry's e ...
, released in 1983 on
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later became part of Universal Music Group.
Pre-history
MCA Inc., a powerful talent agency and a television production company, entered the recorded music business in 1962 wit ...
.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Joe Perry and Mach Bell; except where indicated.
;Side one
#"Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker" – 2:58
#"Black Velvet Pants"
(Perry) – 3:20
#"Women in Chains"
(Ronnie Brooks, Harold Tipton, Tom DeLuca) – 4:05
#"Four Guns West" – 4:28
#"Crossfire" – 5:43
;Side two
#"Adrianna" – 3:20
#"King of the Kings" – 4:02
#"
Bang a Gong
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* Bang, Lorestan, a village in Iran
* Bangs, Ohio, Uni ...
"
(Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan ( ; born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was a pioneer of the glam rock movement in the early 1970s with his band T. Rex. Bolan was posthumously inducted int ...
) – 3:55 (
T. Rex cover)
#"Walk with Me Sally" – 3:14
#"Never Wanna Stop" – 4:27
Outtakes
#"When Worlds Collide"
#"First One's for Free"
#"Going Down"
#"They'll Never Take Me Alive"
#"Into the Night"
#"Something Else"
"When Worlds Collide" and "Going Down" were often included in setlists of The Joe Perry Project prior to the recording sessions of the album, with "Something Else" performed during the tour for the album.
Alternate song titles
#"No Time for Women" -> "Once a Rocker..."
#"When Do I Sleep" -> "Adrianna"
Personnel
*
Joe Perry – electric and acoustic guitars, lap steel guitar, slide guitar, six-string bass, producer
* "Cowboy" Mach Bell – vocals, percussion
* Danny Hargrove – bass, backing vocals
* Joe Pet – drums, congas, timbales, gong, backing vocals
* Harry King – piano, associate producer
* Mark Parenteau – chains ("Women In Chains")
* Jim Biggins, Rick Cunningham - saxophones
;Production
*Michael Golub – engineer, associate producer
*Ed Goodreau, Meg Bryant – tape operators
*
Greg Calbi
Gregory Calbi (born April 3, 1949) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey.
Biography
Greg Calbi was born on April 3, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Bisho ...
– mastering at
Sterling Sound
George Marino (April 15, 1947 – June 4, 2012) was an American mastering engineer known for working on albums by rock bands starting in the late 1960s.
Biography
Marino was born on April 15, 1947, in the New York City borough The Bronx. He at ...
, New York
References
1983 albums
The Joe Perry Project albums
MCA Records albums
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