''Pure Electric Honey'' is the debut

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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), Alic ...

, 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 Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

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;Musicians * Timmy Cannon (as Ymmit) –

bagpipes Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

* Charlotte (as Fuzzy Martin) – backwards violin * Bob & Thana Harris (as Rantin' & Ravin') – rantin' & ravin' * Roy Herman (as Herman Monster) –

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos tha ...

, beast guitars * Scott Kolden (as Nedlok Tocs) – guitar, production,

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;Musicians (cont.) * Greg Lamastro (as Mr. Green Beans) –

sitar The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in ...

* Jeff Marden (as Om Shanti) –

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

* Rod Martin (as Mod Martin) – slide guitar * Todd Rogers (as The Spiral Staircase) – keyboards * Rick Snyder (as Purple Plastic Penguin) –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Jeff Wolfe (as The Colonel) –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

* Gouda & the Potato: meows

Release history

References

External links

''Pure Electric Honey''
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