CHAPTER 66 - Eric
Singer post-KISS
66.01. Save Me (Dragon Attack)
Queen tribute album,
produced, engineered and mixed by Billy Sherwood. Bruce’s brother Bob also
features along with other stars. Eric Singer appears on drums on this track
with Bruce Kulick, his first appearance on an album after leaving KISS. Ricky Phillips
plays bass, Michael Sherwood plays piano, and the Vinnie Vincent connected Jeff
Scott Soto provides vocals. See also Bruce Kulick post-KISS section.
66.02. Constellations
66.03. Lookin’ Back On...
66.04. Spanish Alley
66.05. Moroua Atoll
Four tracks from former
RATT guitarist Warren DeMartini’s solo album, “Crazy Enough To Sing To You,” on
which Eric Singer would drum. Released in
66.06. Let Me Love You
66.07 The Killing Of Georgie
Released in
66.08. The Worst (Gilby Clarke)
One track from Gilby’s “The
Hangover” on which Eric drums which was released in September 1997). The track
also includes Phil Soussan on bass and Ryan Roxie on guitar. Produced by Gilby
Clarke and CJ DeVillar. Eric would tour with Gilby around the time of the
album’s release as a band billed as “Don’t Touch Grandpa.”
66.09. Strange Ways
66.10. Love Her All I Can
Eric Singer and Karl
Cochran would hook up to record two covers for the independent tribute “Return
Of The Comet.” While Eric would drum on both tracks he would sing lead on “
Initially, only Eric would
be invited to record for the “Return Of The Comet” album, but he wanted to
record the song on the West Coast rather than fly to
“Strangeways” was recorded
at Juan Croucier Productions in
“Stream” Album Notes:
Produced by Stream; Engineered
by Robert Pineda; Additional Engineering by William Lucas, Tom Thomas; Recorded
at Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, California, Studio-One Hollywood, California,
and Metrosound, Granada Hills, California, during 1997. All lyrics by David
Glenn Eisley. Additional musicians on the album include Pat Regan (Keyboards),
Pat Toney (Drums on “Still Believe”), and Chuck Wright (Bass).
66.11. Chasin’ The Dragon
66.12. Snake Eyed Moon
66.13. Rock Bottom
66.14. Camoflage
66.15. Fade To Black
66.16. Bed Of Fire
66.17. Blood For Gold
66.18. Far From The Maddening Crowd
66.19. Still Believe
Eric would drum on 9 out of
10 tracks on Peter Scheithauer’s “Steam” solo project. According to Peter, “I
knew Eric through Dave Spitz and when it was time for me to record ‘Stream’ I
called Eric if he would have time to play on this record. The timing was
perfect and he asked me who might play on bass. Than he asked me if I would be
interested to play with Bob Daisley. I saw Bob with Gary Moore, Ozzy and had
Ozzy, Rainbow and Uriah Heep CD’s so you could imagine what would be my answer.
At the end we needed a singer and I asked Bob if he knew David as well as I
asked Chuck Wright than I called David, we tried two songs and everything was
ready to rock.” (Melodicrock.com).
66.20. The Haunting
66.21. Mercedes Benz
66.22. Saturday Disaster
66.23. Superstar
Four tracks from Gilby
Clarke’s “Rubber” album on which Eric would appear. Produced, recorded and
mixed by Gilby Clarke at Redrum Recording,
“Lost And Spaced” Album Notes:
Produced by ESP.
Co-produced by Curt Cuomo. This album would Eric’s much anticipated solo CD
featuring cover versions of some of his favorite songs done with friends
including Bruce Kulick, John Corabi, Karl Cochran.
66.24. Teenage Nervous Breakdown
While ESP would be consider
the “Eric Singer Project,” it was very much a band project with material which
had influenced all of the members of the band. This song was sung by Eric and
was originally recorded by
66.25. Four Day Creep
Originally recorded by
Humble Pie for their “Rock In The Filmore” album this song would be sung by
Karl, Eric, and John. Bruce Kulick would play lead and rhythm guitars and John
Corabi would play bass. Karl Cochran would also play lead guitar.
66.26. Free Ride
Sung by John Corabi this
track was originally released by Edgar Winter on his “They Only Come Out At
Night” album. John and Karl would play rhythm guitar while Karl and Bruce would
play lead. Bass was played by John Corabi. Some percussion would be played by
Curt Cuomo while Roberta Freeman would provide some backing vocals.
66.27. Still Alive And Well
Originally recorded by
Johnny Winter on his album of the same name, this song would be sung by Karl who
would also share lead and rhythm guitar duties with Bruce Kulick. Bruce would
also play bass.
66.28. Never Before
This was a Deep Purple
“Machine Head” track sung by John Corabi who would also play bass. Bruce would
play rhythm while Karl would handle lead guitar. Keyboards were played by Nicky
Lemmons and backing vocals were by Roberta Freeman.
66.29. Goin’ Blind
Sung by Karl Cochran, this
track was the project’s tribute to KISS with the classic “Hotter Than Hell”
Gene Simmons’ song. Bruce Kulick would play all guitars and bass. Eric Singer
would also provide backing vocals.
66.30. Set Me Free
Sung by Eric and originally
recorded by Sweet on their album “
66.31. Changes
Sung by Karl Cochran, this
was a track originally recorded by Jimi Hendrix for his “Band Of Gypsies”
album. Bruce Kulick would play lead and rhythm guitars, and bass. Roberta
Freeman would provide additional vocals.
66.32. S.O.S. (Too Bad)
The classic Aerosmith song
from their “Get Your Wings” album which had been released in 1974 during an era
which would see the band play with KISS this track would be sung by John
Corabi. John and Bruce Kulick would play rhythm guitar while Bruce would play
lead. John would also play bass.
66.33. Foxy Lady
Sung by John Corabi, this
song is most notable for Ace Frehley recording the lead guitar and solo on the
track. Bruce Kulick would play rhythm guitar while John Corabi would play bass.
This track was originally recorded by Jimi Hendrix for his album “Are You
Experienced?”
66.34. Twenty Flight Rock
Sung by Eric Singer, this
song was from Montrose’s “Warner Brothers Presents” album. Bruce Kulick plays
rhythm guitar and bass, John Corabi plays piano and rhythm guitar, and Karl
Cochran plays lead guitar. This song was not included on the initial release of
the album, but was added for the Island/Def Jam distribution reissue of 1999.
The track order on the
66.35. Won’t Get Fooled Again
Sung by John on the verses
and Eric on the bridge with John, Eric and Karl singing the chorus, this song
was originally recorded by The Who on their “Who’s Next?” album. Bruce Kulick
plays lead and rhythm guitar and bass. This song was not included on the
initial release of the album, but was added for the Island/Def Jam distribution
reissue of 1999. Both 66.34 & 35 were recorded at Redrum Recording and
engineered by Gilby Clarke. Produced and mixed by ESP and Gilby.
66.36. Snortin’ Whiskey
Sung by Karl Cochran, who
also plays rhythm and lead guitar, and bass, this song was originally recorded
by Pat Travers on his “Go For What You Know” album. This song was included in
demo form as a bonus track on the issue of the ESP album.
66.37. American Band
Sung by Eric Singer, this
song was originally recorded by Grand Funk Railroad for their classic “We’re An
American Band” album. Rhythm guitar and bass were performed by John Corabi.
Karl Cochran plays lead guitar. This song was
included in demo form as a bonus track on the Japanese issue of the
album (Zain ZACB-1007).
66.38. Some Kind Of Wonderful
This track was another
Grand Funk song which was demoed for the ESP project. It was not used, though
Eric and Karl would record it on their own as a duet.
On this Bob Kulick produced
and organized Alice Cooper tribute album, Eric performs on one song with Dave
Mustaine on lead vocals, Marty Friedman and Bob Kulick on guitars, Bob Daisley
on bass, Paul Taylor on keyboards. According to Eric, “Of all artist I’ve ever
worked with,
66.40. You’re The One (I Want)
66.41. All The Girls, But U
While Eric Singer would
only drum on two tracks on Shameless’ “Backstreet Anthems” album in 1999, he
would be an important factor in helping the German bassist Alexx Michael get
his recording project together. According to Alexx, “Eric Singer (who I know
for a while) came up with the idea that I should record my songs with the right
people! He introduced me to Stevie Rachelle and Gilby Clarke. I got in contact
with Steve Summers thru the PBF Hotline. He called me back and did send him the
demos. Tracii guns, Eric Skodis, Brian Tichy and Teddy are real good friends of
Gilby Clarke and he introduced us all.”
66.42. Draw The Line (Not The Same Old Song And Dance)
On yet another Bob Kulick
produced tribute album Eric would record this classic Aerosmith song with Jeff
Keith and Tommy Skeoch of Tesla and Tony Levin.
“99 Live” Album Notes:
Recorded Live in Hollywood,
California, 1999; Recorded by Jason Alt, Chas Silviria and Gilby Clarke; Mixed
by Gilby Clarke at Redrum recordings; Mastering by Mike Mierau. Gilby Clarke’s
band, for this live recording included Eric, Tracii Guns on guitar, and Stefan
Adika on bass.
66.43. Wasn’t Yesterday Great
66.44. Monkey Chow
66.45. Black
66.46. Killoy Was Here
66.47. Motorcycle Cowboys
66.48. Good Enough for Rock ‘N Roll
66.49. Cure Me....or Kill Me....
66.50.
“28IF” Album Notes:
Produced by Tommy Thayer;
Basic tracks recorded at Falcon Recording, Portland, Oregon by Dennis Carter
and Sean Norton; All guitars and vocals recorded and mixed at New Century
Media, Hollywood, California by Pat Regan. Eric drums on the whole album for
this band signed to Tommy and John Thayer’s EON Records. According to promo
material this material is, “guitar-rock of the finest sort, fronted by the
guitar and voice of Jeff LaBansky, a lauded
66.51. Devil
66.52. Chosen One
66.53. Forever
66.54. Jade
66.55. The Instigator
66.56. Beautiful
66.57. No Pride
66.58. Standing On The Inside
66.59. Life
66.60. New Beginning
66.61. Letting Go (John Thayer, 2000)
John Thayer is the brother
of Tommy and released this song as the title-track of his 2000 album on EON
records. Eric drums on this single track.
66.62. Freedom (Karl Cochran)
Eric plays drums on a demo
bonus track on Karl Cochran’s “Voodooland” EP. See Ace Frehley post-KISS
section for further details.
66.63. Untouchable (Kuni)
66.64. Brother To Brother (Kuni)
66.65. Spy vs. Spy (Kuni)
66.66. I’m No Fool (Kuni)
66.67. I’ll Wait For You (Kuni)
Eric drummed on 5 tracks on
Kuni’s 2000 album “Fucked Up” which was comprised of demos dating back to the
early 1990s. Kuni was a Japanese guitarist. Dave Spitz plays bass on all of the
songs while Dennis St. James, who had been the bassist in Paul Stanley’s solo
band, sings on the 1990 songs. Jack James sings on the 1991 recordings. The
1990 tracks were recorded at Pacific Recorder,
66.68. Unchained
66.69. So This Is Love
66.70. Little Guitars
Eric would drum on three
tracks on the Bob Kulick produced Van Halen tribute album, “Little Guitars,
Tribute To Van Halen.”
66.71. Love Me Forever
66.72. Alone Again
Produced by Lemmy
Kilmister, Doro, Bob Kulick, and Bruce Bouillet. Recorded at Office Studios,
“Brutal Planet” Album Notes:
Executive producer: Bob
Ezrin; Produced by Bob Marlette. Mixed, engineered and arranged by Bob
Marlette. Recorded at the Blue Room, Woodland Hills, CA and A&M Studios,
Los Angeles. Other band members on the album include Ryan Roxie (Guitars), Phil
X (Guitars), China (Guitars), and Bob Marlette (Bass).
66.73. Brutal Planet
66.74. Wicked Young Man
66.75. Sanctuary
66.76. Blow Me A Kiss
66.77. Eat Some More
66.78. Pick Up The Bones
66.79. Pessi-Mystic
66.80. Gimme
66.81. It’s The Little Things
66.82. Take It Like A Woman
66.83. Cold Machine
Eric Singer would drum on
the “Brutal Planet” album and tour with Alice Cooper. The album would be a
concept piece continued on Alice’s next album “Dragontown,” though Eric
wouldn’t perform on that album – he would join Alice for the tour.
66.84. Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me
A bonus track from the
album included on Japanese and Australian copies of the album. This song was
inspired by an episode from the Simpsons where Homer builds Bart a demonic
looking “Krusty The Clown” bed. Bart is terrified and afraid to go to sleep,
sitting on the edge of the bed, repeating “can’t sleep, clown will eat me.”
66.85. It’s The Little Things
66.86. Wicked Young Man
66.87. Poison
66.88. My Generation
Tracks 66.85-66.88 would be
released on the bonus CD included with the “Brutal Planet” tour edition package
released in 2001. They were recorded live on the “Brutal Planet” tour on which
Eric drummed. Other members of the touring band included Ryan Roxie and Pete
Friesen on guitar, Greg Smith on bass, and Teddy Andreadis on keyboards.
66.89. Fat Bottomed Girls (Stone Cold Queen)
Appearing on another Queen
tribute, Eric’s “band” recording this track would include Joe Lynn Turner, Reb
Beach, and Tony Franklin. The tribute album would be produced by Bob Kulick and
Bruce Bouillet.
66.90. Round And Round (Let The Tribute Do
The Talking)
Eric drums on this one
track on the Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet produced “Let The Tribute Do The
Talking” Aerosmith tribute. Other musicians on the track included Tim “Ripper”
Owens, Reb Beach, Tim Bogert, Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet.
66.91. Sad But True (Metallica Tribute)
Both Eric Singer and Bruce
Kulick, with Joey Belladonna and Marco Mendoza, appear on this one track from
the Bob Kulick and Bruce Bouillet produced Metallica tribute album, “Metallic
Assault: A Tribute To Metallica.”
66.92. Heart Of Chrome
66.93. Diamond Dogs
Eric drums on two tracks on
Gilby’s “Swag” (2001) album, one of which is a David Bowie cover. Track 66.92
is not a cover of the KISS song of the same title.
66.94. Into The Unknown (Avantasia)
Eric drums on one track on
Tobias Sammet’s Avantasia’s “The Metal Opera, Part II” album.
66.95. Go To Hell
66.96. Ballad of Dwight Fry
66.97. Brutal Planet (Remix)
66.98. It’s The Little Things
Eric appears on live
material from the “Brutally Live” DVD, issued on the “Dragontown” tour edition
package in 2002. This bonus CD includes the previously released bonus track,
“Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me.” The remix version of “Brutal Planet” runs
7:57.
66.99. Breathe (In The Air)
From the Bob Kulick and
Billy Sherwood produced Pink Floyd tribute “Pigs And Pyramids: A Tribute To
Pink Floyd” released in October 2002. Other musicians on the track include Phil
Soussan, Robin McAuley, and Jeff “Skunk” Baxter.
66.100. Eric Singer/Ronnie Montrose (2003)
Eric actually toured with
Montrose, a version including Ronnie, vocalist Keith St. John, and bassist
Ricky Phillips, in 2003 into 2004. During the summer of 2003 Eric, Ricky and
Ronnie would go into the studio and lay down several tracks, probably around
10, though without a vocalist. According to Ronnie in 2004, “I’m now working on
bringing 10 of my favorite singers together to each contribute lyrics and
vocals to some incredible ‘Power Trio’ tracks that Ricky Phillips and Eric
Singer and I recorded live in the studio last summer. The tentative title will
be ‘Ronnie Montrose and Friends – 10x10’ and the complete list of singers will
be listed here as soon as everyone is on board... I’ve contacted many of my
friends, and am very excited to bring this assemblage of talent together on one
project” (RonnieMontrose.com).
“The Eyes Of Alice Cooper” Album
Notes:
After releasing two concept
albums, “Brutal Planet” and “Dragontown,” Alice returned to his basic rock ‘n
roll roots with an album which was essentially recorded live in the studio.
Alice’s band for the album includes Eric Dover and Ryan Roxie on guitars, Eric
Singer on drums, and Chuck Garric and bass. Produced and mixed by Andrew
‘Mudrock’ Murdoch; Engineered by “The Gatekeepers” - Mudrock and Fred
Archambault; Recorded at Mates Studio, North Hollywood, California; Mixed at
Track Record, North Hollywood.
66.101. Detroit City
66.102. What Do You Want From Me?
66.103. Love Should Never Feel Like This
66.104. Spirits Rebellious
66.105. Novocaine
66.106. Man Of The Year
66.107. Bye Bye Baby
66.108. Be With You Awhile
66.109. I’m So Angry
66.110. Between High School and the Old School
66.111. This House Is Haunted
66.112. Backyard Brawl
66.113. The Song That Didn’t Rhyme
66.114. The Stronger You Are The Harder You Fall (Chris Catena)
This song features Bruce
Kulick on guitar and Eric Singer on drums. Chuck Wright provides bass.
66.115. Shout It Out Loud (Ash Wednesday OST)
Eric teams with Vivian
Campbell (Dio, Def Leppard) and Lemmy (Motorhead) on this single cover
recording included on the “Ash Wednesday” OST released by Koch Records. This
vocal track, though with Samantha Maloney on drums and Jennifer Batten on
guitar, was also released on the new Bob Kulick produced KISS tribute from Koch
Entertainment on April 27, 2004, titled: “Spin The Bottle: KISS Tribute.” Other
artists/songs appearing on that album include: Detroit Rock City (Dee Snider) /
Love Gun (Tommy Shaw, Stevie Lukather on guitar) / Cold Gin (Mark Slaughter) /
King Of The Night Time World (Chris Jericho / I Want You (Kip Winger) / God Of
Thunder (Buzz Osborne) / Calling Dr. Love (Page Hamilton) / Parasite (Doug
Pinnick) / Strutter (Phil Lewis) / I Stole Your Love (Robin McAuley).
66.116. “46644,” The Nelson Mandela Concerts
To draw attention to the
plight of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, Nelson Mandela hosted this charity
concert in Cape Town on November 29, 2003. “46664” was a reference to his
prison ID number during his incarceration during the apartheid era. DVD and CDs
from the concert were released in April 2004.
Eric was a member of the
houseband for the show. This band included Spike Edney, Steve Stroud, Jamie
Moses, Steve Hamilton, Andy Bush, and backing vocalists Chris Thompson, Treanna
Morris, and Zoe Nicholas. Rehearsals for the event begain in London in early
November before continuing in South Africa two-weeks before the event. As a
member of the houseband Eric played with numerous artists during the show.
66.117. Sweet & Dirty Love
66.118. Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Eric plays drums on two tracks on Gene Simmons’
“Asshole” album. Refer to Gene Simmons extra-KISS section for further details.
66.119. Master Of Puppets
This track was released on “Metallic Attack - The
Ultimate Tribute” in 2004. Eric’s band includes Chuck Billy, Alex Skolnick,
Doug Aldrich, and Marco Mendoza.
66.120. Space & Time (Triggerdaddy)
66.121. Jesus Cowboy (Triggerdaddy)
66.122. Can’t Get High (Triggerdaddy)
Eric plays drums on three
tracks on the Gilby Clarke produced “Stereosonic Meltdown” album released in
2005. Recorded at Redrum Studios in Sherman Oaks, CA, Triggerdaddy is a vehicle
of Tim Karr, a musician who had released his first album in 1989. After leaving
EMI records Tim had found himself unable to record for five years for legal reasons.
Eric came into the project via Gilby, who in turn had been recommended to Tim
by ex-Cult drummer Matt Sorum.
66.123. I Don’t Live Today (Michael
Schenker)
A Bob Kulick produced
tribute project with a different twist. Released on Michael’s “Heavy Hitters,”
album in 2005, this album pays tribute to his contempories. Michael plays
guitars on the 10 tracks on the album, while a diverse group of musicians (read
as “the usual bunch who appear on Bob’s tribute albums”) are brought in to work
on different songs. On this song Sebastian Bach is on lead vocals and Tony
Franklin on bass.
66.124. Back in the U.S.S.R.
Recorded for a Bob Kulick Beatles
tribute, “Butchering The Beatles: An
Headbanging Tribute To The Beatles,” with Motorhead’s Lemmy on bass and
vocals, and John 5 on guitars. This is expected to be released via Rykodisc.
“ESP: Live In
Produced by Bruce Kulick
and released in October 2006 on Rock Hard Records. ESP, for their 2006
perfomances in Japan and Australia comprised of Eric Singer, Bruce Kulick, John
Corabi, and Alice Cooper band bassist Chuck Garric (vocals too). Recorded live
at the
66.125. Watchin’ You
66.126. Love (I Don’t Need It Anymore)
66.127. Unholy
66.128. Do Your Own Thing
66.129. Domino
66.130. Black Diamond
66.131. War Machine
66.132. Oh Darlin'
66.134. I Love It Loud
66.135. Power To The Music
66.136. Famous 4 Madness (Shameless)
Eric shares drumming duties
with T Burr, Kari Kane, and Mike Fasano on tracks on this Shameless album due
to be released on April 27, 2007.