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| Eric Burdon and the Animals site
link Originally called The Alan Price Combo in 1958, they became The Animals shortly after lead vocalist Eric Burdon joined the band in '62. By 1964, they had recorded their second single, House Of The Rising Sun,which went to #1 in the U.K. and the U.S. In '65, keyboardist Alan Price left the band (the result of tension between him and Burdon) and formed The Alan Price Set.* Dave Rowberry would be Price's replacement. In '66, drummer John Steel left being replaced by Barry Jenkins (formerly with The Nashville Teens). By the end of '66, bassist * Chas Chandler and guitarist Hilton Valentine left. Chandler became manager for The Animals as well as Jimi Hendrix (and later Slade). Now billed as Eric Burdon And The Animals, the band endorsed psychedelia with San Franciscan Nights, which went to #9 in '67 and Sky Pilot (#14) in '68. By early '68, Burdon and The Animals fell apart, but in late '68, Burdon formed Eric Burdon and The New Animals with a line up that briefly included future Police guitarist Andy Summers(then, known as Andrew Somers). Soon after, Burdon went on an intermittenly successful solo career, at first fronting the R&B group War in which he had a Top Ten hit with Spill The Wine in 1970. During a 1971 European performance with War, Burdon suffered from exhaustion which would eventually end his collaboration with the group. In 1976, the original band reunited to record the one-shot album, Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted. In '83, they reunited once more and recorded Ark and mounted a tour that was captured on the '84 release of Rip It To Shreds before the band members again went their seperate ways. They were inducted in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994. Eric Burdon and The New Animals continue to tour extensively * LIFE LINES Chas Chandler passed on in 1996 Dave Rowberry passed on in 2003 Click to close |
WHO IS…the OUTpsiDER…? site link Formed of blood and bone, steel pierced flesh in anger and the OUTpsiDER was reborn. Musically
the lines are blurred, the Sweet and Chicory Tip, Cabaret Voltaire and
Neil Young, Bowie, Bolan and Kraftwerk, 808 State and Oasis, Aphex Twin
and the Beatles, Pearl Jam and the Guru. What can I say except that
Music is Music and I have never hated it. Maybe I disliked some but
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