RowdyMoon Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBGV86Vz6E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brundaddy Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Awesome! The tape measure is a nice touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyBillyBob1 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Even though Flo and Eddie do it in a funny way what they say is all too true in Rock and Roll. One of the most famouse industry rip off's is with the Alice Cooper Band. Glen Buxton, their lead guitarist, was way down on his luck and was actually sleeping on my kitchen floor when I was living in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A real bad neighborhood at the time. In any case he had a problem with drugs and was pretty broke. He told me the story of how he never saw a dime from their first few albums because there was a dispute as to what record label had the rights to distribute their records. Their first album was on a Frank Zappa label that I forget the name of. In any case it was going back and forth in court until there were no real royalties left because the lawers took it all through their "fees". When the money was gone so were the lawers. He stayed with me and my friend for a few months till he got a royalty check and ,,,poof!! he was gone. He promised he would pay me back but I did not really expect that to happen anyway. He still had his SG and we used to jam a bit in my apartment. I asked him to show me how he played a song from their first album. Something about a shoe salesman and I swear he played it wrong! I took what he showed me and tweaked it a bit and showed him how it went and rightfully so he got pissed at me. I felt sorry for the guy and his addiction he was, bottom line, a nice guy. I wonder what ever happened to him. He wrote a lot of their tunes and he called Billion Dollar Babies his best acheivement. "That's my baby" is what he had to say about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I felt sorry for the guy and his addiction he was, bottom line, a nice guy. I wonder what ever happened to him. He died about 15 years ago. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyBillyBob1 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 He died about 15 years ago. rct After I posted this I looked him up on Google and saw that he died. That's sad. I really loved those early Alice Cooper records and he wrote a lot of those memorable riffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Ace Frehley could have used this advice back in the late 80s/early 90s.....He got screwed left and right. So did Tesla and Johnny Winter, to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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