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  Spooky
Tooth Facts
1969's
Spooky Two LP is generally considered to be the best effort by the
group and was the last album release by the original lineup. It
included the song "Better By You, Better Than Me", which was covered by
Judas Priest on their 1978 release Stained Class. The track later
gained some attention in the media as subject of a court trial in 1990.
It was claimed that the subliminal messages in the song's recording by
Judas Priest caused two youngsters to commit mutual suicide. The court
finally judged in favor of the accused.  |
 The Lineup Over The Years
 Out of England, the band was formed in November of 1967, (with intermittent breakups, between 1967 to 1974. In recent years, the band has been reconstituted at various points, and continues to perform). They weren't always called Spooky Tooth, they were originally called "Art" and in 1967 they released an album under that name called Supernatural Fairy  Tales, and
consisted of founding members : Mike Harrison, Greg Ridley, Luke
Grosvenor, and Mike Kellie.After the release of that album in 67, the founder of Island Records, Chris Blackwell introduced American Gary Wright to the members of Art. They held a rehearsal together and Wright played a song he had written called "Sunshine Help Me". He was invited to join the band and they became Spooky Tooth. With a 2 lead vocalist concept they went to the studio and recorded their first single "Sunshine help me". Spooky Tooth became firmly established in the "underground music scene" and had a cult following in the UK and Europe, the USA would follow about a year later. In 1971 Blackwell talked the band into collaborating with French electronic music composer Pierre Henry. Spooky Tooth agreed to do the project as backing musicians and vocalists only. It was to be a Pierre Henry project. However  unknown to Spooky Tooth until
it was to late, Island Records released the album (Ceremony) as a
Spooky Tooth release with Pierre thinking he could ride on the success
Spooky Tooth had with their last album. Ceremony sucked shit and Spooky
Tooth split up because of it. They would reform in 1973 with new members. In 2004 Harrison, Kellie, and Wright got back together  to do 2 reunion concerts in
Germany. A cd and a dvd were made of their performances. The cd is
titled "Nomad Poets" and is considered by many as the best Spooky tooth
recording ever. It contains material that spans their whole careers. It
was released in March 2007.Spooky Tooth has been a springboard for several spectacular careers : Greg Ridey (died in 2003) / Humble Pie, Luther Grosvenor / Mott The Hopple / Stealers Wheel, Mick Jones / Foreigner, and Mike Harrison and Gary Wright's own solo careers.Spooky Tooth remains a legendary band today whose music still inspires new and established artist. In 1972 Luther Grosvenor joined Mott the Hoople. At that time Mott's popularity had waned. Luther gave them the vibrancy and talent they needed just at the right time. He soon became known as Ariel Bender and played on probably their best known album - "The Hoople" The Ariel Bender Band - formed in 2005 - brings to you that vibrancy and talent, Spooky Tooth Links Find out more about "Spooky Tooth" here. As of 4-25-11 Spooky Tooth's Official(?) website is infected with a trojan virus #1 Spooky Tooth Fan Website || Wikipedia || George Starostin's Music Reviews || Mark's Record Reviews || Alex Gitlin - Spooky Tooth || Ariel Bender Band Site || Greg Ridley Gary Wright || Luther Grasvenor || Henry McCullough || Mike Patto fan site Advertisement Spooky Tooth Discography Spooky Tooth Albums Discography mouse-over album title to view album details
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Facts
In the beginning the band were often compared to Traffic - and not just
because the two bands shared a common producer (Jimmy Miller), but
because both went in the promising direction of taking up on branches
of roots-rock and crossing it with psychedelic and art-rock elements.
And while Traffic ultimately beat Spooky Tooth in the songwriting
department, the latter fought back with amazing gritty chops and a
stunning stylistic diversity, best evidenced on the band's masterpiece
Spooky Two. However as the years went by, the bands parted ways -
Traffic went in for more art-rock and did that successfully, while
Spooky Tooth first dabbled in a very questionable
avantgarde-electronica project with Pierre Henry, lost most of their
fanbase in the process, lost Gary Wright, released a pleasant but not
too significant pure R'n'B record, and then reconvened later in the
Seventies to become your average run-of-the-mill arena-rock band for
two years before fizzling out with an unexpectedly cool hard/funk
project. In short, one heck of a creative biography.~ George Starostin's Music Reviews
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