Butts Band-Hear & Now[1975]USA

Butts Band-Hear & Now[1975]USA

(ex-Doors!)

Blue Thumb Records BTSD-6018

1. Get Up,Stand Up
2. Corner Of My Mind
3. Caught In The Middle
4. Everybody's Fool
5. Livin' And Dyin'
6. Don't Wake Up
7. If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody
8. Feelin' So Bad
9. White House
10. Act Of Love

Mike Stull : Vocals, Guitar & Keyboards (The Wackers,Blackstone)
Robbie Krieger : Guitars & Vocals (The Doors,Riders On The Storm)
Karl "Slick" Rucker : Bass & Vocals (Nina Hagen,Gregg Wright,Lino)
Alex Richman : Keyboards & Vocals (Salty)
John Densmore : Drums,Percussion & Vocals (The Doors)
Mike Berkowitz : Drums & Vocals (Billy Joel,Elton John)
Bobbi Hall : Congas & Percussion (Janis Joplin)

"Robby Krieger"

"Before "An American Prayer" we did two albums as the Doors,"Full Circle" and "Other Voices",which were fairly well received albums.But the problem was after Jim had gone, the three of us couldn’t get along anymore.We did for a while but after a while,it got very strange.We all decided to go to England and maybe find a singer over there.So we all went over there,kind of moved over there.Then Dorothy,Ray’s wife,got pregnant and she had gone through some weird stuff.So Ray decided to go back home.John Densmore and I were stuck over in London,so we formed this group called the Butts Band with Phil Chen,who at that time was the hot bass player in England,like the James Jamerson of England.We had a singer named Jess Roden who'd been in the band Bronco and a keyboard player named Roy Davis.It was really a good band.We recorded half of the record in the U.K. and half in Jamaica which Phil helped with because he is from there and he was able to visit his mother and father for the first time in ten years.Then we came back to Los Angeles and we couldn’t hold the band together because half of them lived in England and half of us lived here.They got homesick and stuff didn’t happen as soon as we had hoped.The record got shuffled around to two or three record companies so then we did another album as the Butts Band with a whole different line up.Karl "Slick" Rucker bass player,Mike Stull who is a great singer.He sounded like the Righteous Brothers and a Lady keyboard player named Alex Richman.We did an album called “Here and Now”."

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