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 Tex Wagner's Profile |
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| Location: | Staten Island, New York |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Jul 21, 2008 (40 days back) |
About Me |
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| Tex Wagner, that's pronounced VOG-NER, as in the German composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (known for transforming musical thought via Gesamtkunstewerk - total art work - the synthesis of all poetic, visual, musical, and dramatic arts...never mind). Home base is Staten Island, however we lurk around all NYC boroughs. You have been warned.Our story continues: Tex Wagner was formed in the late 20th Century by Stu Richards and Dan Reich. They met while both were employed in what most folks would consider a "clandestine profession". Dan was "retired" from music, having made his mark (he was lauded in print as superior to the mighty Clem Burke) in local New York bands including The Cyclones, The Mad Violets and The Corvairs. Stu toiled in numerous ensembles and emptied many a room in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Arizona and New York. When Stu slipped Dan a cassette tape of his songs, Dan exclaimed "Hot damn, looks like I'm back in business!" While writing material, the pair searched for a bass player (the underachievers of rock'n'roll according to Dan). After many auditions, Stu and Dan stumbled upon a colleague, Spontaneous , who also was employed at the aforementioned clandestine company. The three formed a lasting bond based on friendship, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Neil Young and a little pornography. Spontaneous , like Dan, was also a stalwart of the New York scene and had been an early band-mate of a Grammy Award winning Latino heart-throb, who shall remain nameless (we don’t want him cashing in on our name). About a year after joining Tex, Spontaneous absconded to San Francisco...but not for the reason most men go there. He was briefly replaced by Jon Chaiken of Coloring Book and Non-Stop Inc. Stu and Dan kept Tex Wagner alive, continuing to write, record and play. Spontaneous returned to New York, Tex Wagner, and soy milk. The three have been together ever since – but sleep separately as Stu snores like all Three Stooges combined.Profile edited with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) | |
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Music:Member Since: 4/10/2008Band Website: You're on it! Band Members: Stu Richards: guitar, vocals, tea & sympathy. Spontaneous: Bass, vocals, sarcasm. Dan Reich: Drums, and, quite frankly, most of the good arrangement ideas! Occasional guest musicians include: Devitt "Make Mine A Double" Elverson on various stringed instruments which were custom-constructed for a small fortune, enriching several dodgy luthiers, craftsmen, and technicians in the process. Joe "Are We Rolling Yet?" Albano playing the keyboards, imbibing imported beer; and is also the individual who was soley responsible for rendering rather believable samples of exotic instruments we simply cannot play or afford to purchase. Influences: We're under them right now, thank you very much, but for the record our individual heroes include Stu: Bowie, Ronson, The Stooges, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Wagner, Philip K. Dick, Clive Barker, Frank Zappa. The case has been presented that I like the stuff I do because I have burned out my receptors and only the very finest, most elegant material will register. This could, in fact, be so. Spontaneous : Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Nader, Dee Murray, Marcus Miller, Norman Watt-Roy, Fernando Saunders, Noam Chomsky, Overend Watts, Jaco, The Ox, Harvey Brooks, Amy Goodman, Timothy White, Gary Giddins, David Zirin, Groucho Marx, Howard Stern, Bill Hicks, Dennis Kucinich, Daryl Jones, Bill Wyman, Mike Watt, Hugh Hopper, Jack Bruce, Flea, Mel Schacter, Klaus Voorman, Carl Radle, Billy Cox, Chuck Rainey, James Jamerson, Bruce Thomas, Chalmers Johnson, Juan Gonzalez, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Patti Smith, among others Dan: The Fabulous Ringo, John Bonham, Jim Gordon, Don Brewer, Brian Wilson, Big Star, The Ventures, Richard Thompson, Neil Young, Dinosaur jr., Ken Kesey, Joe R. Lansdale, John Ford, Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese...now don't get me started! Covers we do:The Bells of Rhymney Pete Seeger/The Byrds She Twists The Knife Again Richard Thompson Sin's A Good Man's Brother Grand Funk Railroad Closer To Home Grand Funk Railroad Tomorrow Never Knows The Beatles The End The Doors Black Country Rock David Bowie Wah Wah George Harrison Non-Alignment Pact Pere Ubu Hey Baby Jimi Hendrix Sounds Like: Crazy Horse by way of Detroit with a dash of Husker Du, Richard Thompson, The Spiders From Mars and of course Grand Funk Rail Road. But that's just the music... TEX'S PICK O' THE WEEK: A weekly discourse in which the assorted members of Tex Wagner get to wax ecstatic about any record they feel like writing about. This week Spontaneous (bass, vocals, sarcasm) holds forth on one of his favorite discs of all time. We welcome all comments. CLAUDIA LENNEAR PHEW! Oh what a tangled rock ‘n’ roll web she weaved….Can you name the most soulful, decidedly enigmatic, ravishingly sexy, largely underrated (and unknown) female vocalist who recorded what could be considered as the greatest “lost” album of the 1970s?That singer would be Claudia Lennear – an indelibly rapturous voice heard on classic rock radio every day, worldwide, for nearly thirty five years after she mysteriously disappeared.First, a little history….When Mick bellowed “how come you taste so good!” he was wailing for Claudia a.k.a. “Brown Sugar.” *When David Bowie cooed “skin sweet with musky oil” he too was pining for Claudia, his muse, a.k.a. “The Lady Grinning Soul.” **Hands down Claudia was the sassiest and most talented of Ike & Tina’s infamous Ikettes. She first cavorted with Sir Jagger when the provocative Ike & Tina Turner Review opened for the Stones’ debauched ’69 Altamont tour.***Soon after, Leon Russell built his revered Shelter People studio band around her. Claudia’s vocals bestowed ebony oomph to Stephen Stills (“Love The One You’re With”), Ry Cooder, Nils Lofgren (“Cry Tough”), Al Kooper, Humble Pie (“Stone Cold Fever”), and Dave Mason (“Only You Know and I Know”) among many, many others.A gentlemanly Joe Cocker granted Claudia a solo segment (“Let It Be”) on his celebrated 1970 Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour (not bad, considering the chorus also included Rita Coolidge, who rendered the equally brilliant “Superstar”). Be advised to check out the expanded CD/DVD edition of the aforementioned Cocker concert masterpiece to hear Claudia and Rita together in full tilt boogie mode.In August 1971 Claudia’s throaty, gospel drenched Delta blues yowl bolstered George Harrison’s entire Concert For Bangladesh repertoire, as well as Billy Preston’s majestic “That’s The Way God Planned It,” Leon Russell’s incendiary (and career defining) “Jumpin’ Jack Flash/Young Blood” medley, and, of course, loveable Ringo’s “It Don’t Come Easy” as witnessed in the recent CD/DVD re-master of the aforementioned historic shows. ****Phew! was Claudia Lennear’s lone solo album and it often fetches a hefty price on the rarities market – it was never available in CD format– though bargain hunters can get it cheaper if they are resourceful. Recorded and released in 1973, Claudia’s session band of peers was comprised of the crème de la crème of studio heavies including Ry Cooder, Chuck Rainey, the Dixie Flyers rhythm section of Tommy McClure and Jim Dickenson, Allen Toussaint, Jim Keltner, and Spooner Oldham to name a distinguished few.Akin to the singer, every track is raw, spicy, funky, dangerous, and beautiful. The perennial cover of the day, Ron Davies’ “It Ain’t Easy” **** is recast as a raunchy Stones-like cut worthy of Exile. Cooder (who was nearly chosen to replace Mick Taylor in the Stones) lays down razor sharp staccato guitar lines that slash and burn beneath Lennear and her hyper rhythm section. I’m convinced the Vuitton toting Keith heard Ry’s writhing licks and felt threatened, thereby opting for the kinder, gentler Ronnie Wood - safe move Captain Jack Sparrow Sr.! “Sister Angela:” a druggy, reverb laden paean to the celebrated civil rights activist / feminist – emerges as the somnambulant stuff of the Grateful Dead circa Aoxamoxa. The erotic, spaced-out vibe of “Everything I Do Is Gonna Be Funky” harkens Riot era Sly. And Tousssaint’s “Goin’ Down” froths akin to a funky gumbo stew worthy of The Night Tripper Dr. John.After Phew! sank without a trace of commercial or critical notice Claudia virtually disappeared from the music scene, save for a non-descript club gig in Chicago wherein a Playboy magazine editor’s jaw dropped. He convinced her to pose in the August 1974 issue (I got mine on eBay for 5 bucks – very good condition). As a result Claudia landed a bit part in the Clint Eastwood flick Thunderbolt and Lightfoot portraying a secretary who requests the former Mayor of Monterey’s social security number in her only scene.As was the fate of many studio players, her contributions are often undocumented in books / films / TV shows detailing the era; remain illegible or omitted in the tiny edited print of old compact discs, and most definitely are lost in the cold anonymous world of the MP3. Surf the web and you’ll find scattered fans and historians searching for the present day whereabouts of Ms. Lennear. One credible online source claims she was spotted working as a bank teller in Memphis in the early 1980s.And that’s the last anyone has seen (but not heard) of Claudia Lennear…Spontaneous*Editor’s Note 1: Confirmed by Bill Wyman.**Editor’s Note 2: In a recent Telegraph UK feature, the Thin White Duke coyly avoids naming names – perhaps not to upstage Iman?**Editor’s Note 3: In the early 70s Bowie was in stiff competition with the elder Glimmer Twin as evidenced by his Ziggy-fied remake of “Let’s Spend the Night Together.” Did this circumstance prompt his affair with Ms. Lennear? Questions persist.***Editor’s Note 4: Claudia was not credited in the original release of Bangladesh. Sacrilege! Blasphemy!****Editor’s Note 5: Was Lennear sending a message to her former paramour Bowie, blowing him away on a tune that was clearly out of place on Ziggy? Bowie’s version of “It Ain’t Easy” was indeed a clunker on an otherwise perfect album. Questions, questions, questions… Record Label: We are signed to MySpace.Com like everyone else! Type of Label: Indie |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Alternative / Rock / Pop Punk) |
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Tex Pick O The Week-Free/"Tons of Sobs" |
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| Heavy rock, blues based and raw, existed a year or two before 1968, but in that year a young British band called Free went into the studio to record their debut album and after that things got really ... Posted by Tex Wagner on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:47:00 PST |
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Tex Pick O The Week-Joe Farrell / |
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| All record collecting aficionados (i.e. geeks), regardless of age, generation, or genre preferences, have that special album in their possession that is long forgotten and hopelessly out of print with... Posted by Tex Wagner on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:13:00 PST |
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Tex Pick O The Week-Soft Machine/ |
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| If aliens should land on planet Earth and find nothing left of our civilization but a copy of Soft Machine Volume Two, they would weep for the race that could produce a work of such cerebral, literate... Posted by Tex Wagner on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:04:00 PST |
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Tex Pick O The Week-Richard Wagner/"Der Ring Des Nibelungen" |
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| The Ring operas taken as a whole comprise a work of such scope that minds are still attempting to wrap themselves around it to this day. But it sure is fun grappling with it.Let's make one thing clear... Posted by Tex Wagner on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:24:00 PST |
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Tex Pick O The Week-Carly Simon / |
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| If you are male, presumably heterosexual (or a lesbian), and grew up in the early 1970s, the No Secrets album jacket image of a then 27-year old Carly Simon was indelibly etched in your horny little ... Posted by Tex Wagner on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:20:00 PST |
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Tex Pick O The Week-Dinosaur, jr / "Bug" |
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| I was chatting with Stu Richards, our guitarist, the other day about the nature of a "hook". Well, we got to thinking and we both agree that a hook is anything that gets your attention. Keeping that i... Posted by Tex Wagner on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:28:00 PST |
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Tex Pick O The Week-Alice Cooper / "Love It To Death" |
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| Before the performer known as Alice Cooper began his solo career, hefronted a band called Alice Cooper, one of the greatest bands to rise upon American soil.Make no mistake. This was a band. All the m... Posted by Tex Wagner on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:21:00 PST |
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