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He was briefly in a band called Shadow King rhat he ans alou Gramm founded. Tht were cery good but didnt ladt after 1 albumn vecause mick jones made sure Atlantic records didnt promote him. Thetes a youtube video of their performance in london. Type in Shadow King, london theatre and u will see lou gramm and Vivien Campbell in Shadow King.
Am I the only person to find the bleeping more offensive than the censored language? Great interview; the legendary Mr Wachtel deserves to be a household name
Norman Durkee played that part. It's really cringe to hear a talented musician tell the same lie for years. But these hosts on RU-vid don't have to ruin their own reputations by perpetuating Randy's BS story.
Is uncle Joe the guy that played WILSON from tool time Tim? LOL He sounds like it. I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LOU. I grew up on Foreigner back in the hippie days of rock and roll and smoking doobies. Oh the good ole days. BUT recently I was surfing YT and started listening to my fav old classic songs I loved and grew up on....and my fav.....I wanta know what love is...just reminiscing...and now...I been binging on Lou Gramm videos. I was unaware of the brain tumor he had. But let me say..Lou has this special unique voice and he can sing anything..much like elvis did. What I dont like is...finding the replacement guy for Foreigner now. It seems many old foreigner videos are gone...so digging to find Lou singing. That other guy..not even close to Lou. Lou should be entered into the rock and roll hall of fame... BEFORE he leaves this Earth. LOU, I hope you know just how damn good you are with your very unique and amazing and beautiful voice. I get chills hearing you sing. What a diamond in the rough.
Randy was fibbing. This is what Norman Durkee himself says. "The thing is, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, when I met them, they were across the hall, and they don't get high; they just eat a lot of pizza. And they wanted piano on this song, and I was across the hall doing commercials, which is what I did a lot for money back at that time; and they come in, and one of the engineers says, "Can you play on this tune?" And I said, "No," because no one knew that "Takin' Care of Business" was a big deal when [they were] making it, and I had hired like eight or ten people [to record commercials] and I [was] paying them by the nanosecond. So to me, the most amazing part of this story is I go over to this studio - and the engineer's name is Buzz Richmond and he's a good guy - he says, "Can you please do this for 'em?" I says, "Okay, one time, and then I'm f***ing out of here." So Randy says - this is the part that kills him - "Do you want to hear this song?" and I said, "No, I don't have time to hear it." So we both put on headphones, and then when he wanted me to play, he would point, and when he wanted me to stop, he put his hand across his throat. And so, the thing starts [imitates intro to "Takin' Care of Business"] and they point, and I go [imitates piano playing], and anyway, we get through the whole song, and I get up and leave. And he says, "How do you do that?" And I says, "I don't know; I've got this magic, man, you know. Gimme some money or something." So I get ninety dollars, which is the legal fee for a union musician playing one session. Then later, one of the Allman Brothers says, "You know, man, you really got f***ed," and so he gave me a couple of grand. [sarcastically] Sure, I'm the pizza guy. And I play piano."
so she said she wasn't your typical rock star daughter,"i'm not like that".like how's ones typical rockstar daughter?private?difficult?weird?two/2 times!
I would like to hear Andy speak on music more. The dynamics of the band are now not that relevant, but Mr Summers recorded jewels will remain forever as a glimpse of his depth as a jazzman.
Enormous respect for Waddy. What an amazing career. He has worked with so many great artists! He must have stories for days. He was close friends with the underrated and under appreciated Bill Cowsill and Waddy had interesting insights into the tragic mess the Cowsills suffered at the hands of their stupid father. Great interview Uncle Joe!
Don Felder is the coolest guy. I love his playing and he seems like a very decent and humble guy. I really enjoyed his story about owning a Simca especially when I Googled the car and saw what it was all about.
A Corvair was the first car I drove as well! Bought it off some drunk guy for $35. Dad made me take it back. Timothy B. Schmidt is a hell of a talent. GREAT voice!
Gabriel you do have a what I call cargo van, and you called it a barn door van!! No insulation whatsoever and coming back to Nebraska from Florida there were Icecicles on the inside roof of the van! Ahh such memories of my childhood lol 🤣
