Saturday, 3 May 2008
Spooky Tooth
Artist: Spooky Tooth
Genre(s):
Rock
Pop
Discography:
Live in Europe
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Master Series
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
Mike Harrison
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
The Mirror
Year: 1974
Tracks: 8
You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw
Year: 1973
Tracks: 9
The Last Puff
Year: 1970
Tracks: 7
Spooky Two
Year: 1969
Tracks: 8
It's All About
Year: 1968
Tracks: 1
Part of the early-'70s British hard rock candy scene, Spooky Tooth grew out of the bluesy VIPs and prog-rock grouping Prowess and consisted of singer Microphone Rex Harrison, keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright, guitarist Martin Luther Grosvenor, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Microphone Kellie. The group built a followers through myriad gigs and recorded its debut album, It's Altogether Around, in 1968. Skittish Two became their most successful track record album in the U.S.; afterwards, Ridley left wing field to join Humble Pie and was replaced by Andy Vivien Leigh. Pursual 1970's Ceremonial occasion, Wright left discipline to grade Wonderwheel, spell Grosvenor took the name Ariel Toot and coupled Stealers Cycle and by and by Lucretia Coffin Mott the Hoople. The addition of leash members of Joe Cocker's Lubricating oil Band -- Patrick Henry McCullough, Chris Stainton, and Alan Spenner -- was not enough to remark the band rudderless, and Spooky Tooth broke up afterward The Finis Puff in 1970. A reunion in 1973 with Wright, George Harrison, and future Outsider guitar player Paddy Jones produced respective LPs, including the somewhat successful You Broke My Bosom So I Busted Your Berate, simply military force shifts and a want of very well material terminated the ascertain in 1974. Wright went on to a successful solo career, marking toss off hits like "Dream Weaver finch," and Mike Kellie by and by joined the punk-pop Only Ones.