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  Spooky Tooth
Spooky Tooth begin on a humble note, stuffing about half of their debut album with covers, but then again, so did the Beatles.
Spooky Tooth's second album is a true masterpiece, unfortunately overlooked in favour of the 'biggies' of the epoch like Led Zeppelin.
It's nowhere near THAT Spooky Tooth of the golden era, but still, Gary Wright is Gary Wright, and the marriage of roots-rock with artsy ambitions still goes on.
starling.rinet.ru /music/spooky.htm   (7886 words)

  
  Spooky Tooth Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: )
During the late 1960s, Spooky Tooth were one of a contingent of new British rock bands inspired by the first British Rock Invasion invasion of acts like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Animals.
Spooky Tooth took Europe and America by storm, alongside their Island Records labelmates Traffic, Free and Jethtro Tull.
Part of the Spooky Tooth legacy is that they were always great at covering songs by then-unknown writers (Elton John, Robbie Robertson) and at recording songs by established writers and making them their own (Lennon/McCartney, Al Kooper, Bob Dylan) in the inimitable Spooky Tooth style.
www.bluestormmusic.com /spookybio.html   (1125 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Spooky Tooth - - Rock / Classic Rock / Blues - www.myspace.com/spookytoothband
Spooky Tooth came together in November of 1967 when Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records, introduced Mike Harrison, Mike Kellie, Greg Ridley and Luther Grosvenor to Gary Wright.
Spooky Tooth had their first rehearsal to see if there was chemistry and Wright played a song he had written a few months before called “Sunshine help me.” It immediately clicked-especially the 2 lead vocalist concept-and the band went into the studio to record their first single “Sunshine help me” with producer Jimmy Miller.
Spooky Tooth was the springboard for several spectacular careers: Greg Ridley/Humble Pie, Mike Kellie/The only ones, Luther Grosvenor/Mott the Hoople, Mick Jones/Foreigner, and Mike Harrison and Gary Wrights own solo careers.
www.myspace.com /spookytoothband   (1286 words)

  
 Tucson Weekly : Currents : Spooky Spokes
According to Bosma, Spooky Tooth Cycles, which he co-founded, provides options to people who may not have the money to buy a car, but find it exhausting to manually bike around Tucson's sprawl in the summer heat.
Arizona statute states that a moped is a "bicycle that is equipped with a helper motor" and meets three criteria: a maximum piston displacement of 50 cubic centimeters or less, brake horsepower of 1 1/2 or less and a maximum speed of 25 mph or less on a flat surface.
Standard Spooky Tooth bikes--there are five models that can be tricked out, from seats to handlebars and beyond--have a piston displacement of 48 cubic centimeters and do 18 to 20 mph, which technically classifies them as mopeds.
www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:80052   (1279 words)

  
 Tartarean Desire - Spooky Tooth - Blues rock band from United Kingdom
Spooky Tooth were one of Island Records' finest acts, yet never quite scaled the upper echelons of the late 60's/early 70's rock hierarchy.
The Spooky Tooth story (for those of us who are into this sort of thing), if you want to wax analytical about it, provides the perfect paradigm of how various members of disparate 60's British Beat bands pooled their musical resources and mutated into a psychedelic/progressive outfit.
If anything, Spooky Tooth were darker and doomier, although their strongly melodic rock set them apart from their contemporaries.
www.tartareandesire.com /bands/Spooky_Tooth/5910   (1852 words)

  
 Spooky Tooth - It`s All About :: Not Lame Recordings - power pop and melodic rock record label, music and CDs
Spooky Tooth was one of these rather unfortunate bands.
This full-length debut from British blues-rockers Spooky Tooth has a tone similar to Traffic with its psychedelic take on the influential pop and soul music of the '60s.
Although Spooky Tooth eventually became better-known for their straightforward blues-rock, the trippy pop of It's All About counts as a career highlight for the group.
www.notlame.com /New_-__Last_Week/Spooky_Tooth/Page_2/CDSPOOKYTOOTH1.html   (236 words)

  
 Spooky Tooth : Cross Purpose - album tracklist and release notes :: blues music at Ruf Records
Spooky Tooth : Cross Purpose - album tracklist and release notes :: blues music at Ruf Records
With the addition of american keyboarder/vocalist Gary Wright, Spooky Tooth were born.
Their first album "It's All About" was certified gold, their second, "Spooky Two" is certified platinum.
www.rufrecords.de /catalogue/1030_spooky-tooth-cross-purpose.html   (487 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Spooky Tooth: biography, discography, reviews, links
Spooky Two (1969) delivered granite-heavy blues for guitar and organ, best materialized in the nine wild minutes of Evil Woman, while That Was Only Yesterday and Better By You Better Than Me displayed their AOR capabilities.
Wright rejoined to Spooky Tooth in time for You Broke My Heart (1972), featuring Mick Jones on guitar (a former Wonderwheel, and a former collaborator of French rocker Johnny Hallyday, and a former surfer with Nero and the Gladiators in the 1960s) and Witness (1973).
The Spooky Tooth reunited (the original line-up except for Wright) to record Cross Purpose (Ruf, 1999).
www.scaruffi.com /vol2/spooky.html   (409 words)

  
 Spooky Tooth - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Part of the early-'70s British hard rock scene, Spooky Tooth grew out of the bluesy VIPs and prog-rock group Art and consisted of vocalist Mike Harrison, keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright, guitarist Luther Grosvenor, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Mike Kellie.
Spooky Two became their most successful album in the U.S.; afterwards, Ridley left to join Humble Pie and was replaced by Andy Leigh.
The addition of three members of Joe Cocker's Grease Band -- Henry McCullough, Chris Stainton, and Alan Spenner -- was not enough to keep the band afloat, and Spooky Tooth broke up after The Last Puff in 1970.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/180/Spooky-Tooth/1035947.html   (246 words)

  
 Spooky Toth: It's All About Spooky Tooth
The 1968 debut album from late-'60s/early-'70s British hard rock band Spooky Tooth mixes covers such as Dylan's "Too Much of Nothing" and Janis Ian's "Society Child" with original material.
An Australian remaster of It's All About Spooky Tooth, released on the Progressive Line label in 2002, adds two covers of The Band's "The Weight" among the bonus tracks.
The first version is the A-side of a Spooky Tooth single released in 1968 ("The Weight"/"Do Right People", Island WIP 6046), while the second "The Weight" is from BBC's Top Gear, recorded live in studio, 30.8.1968.
theband.hiof.no /albums/its_all_about_spooky_tooth.html   (179 words)

  
 Spooky Tooth - Artistopia Music
Spooky Tooth was an English progressive rock band from the late 1960s.
Crucial to their sound was their instrumentation; they were one of the few acts within the rock forum of the time to adopt the twin keyboard approach (both an organ and a piano player) alongs...
Cape Cod Today - Thankfully, she didn't have a tooth in her head, and all she left - once the nurse...
www.artistopia.com /spooky-tooth   (229 words)

  
 Gary Wright Bio - Utopia Artists
The second album "Spooky Two", released in 1969, entered the international record charts and became a classic.
In the early 70s, Gary left Spooky Tooth for a time to produce records for veteran producer Jimmy Miller of Rolling Stone and Traffic fame.
Recording two critically acclaimed albums for AandM Records, he then reformed Spooky Tooth with Mick Jones (who later went on to form super group Foreigner) and released 3 more albums.
www.marstalent.com /bio_gary_wright.htm   (722 words)

  
 Rock Ahead: CD Album: Mike Harrison - Spooky Tooth - Smokestack Lightning   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Whilst this album ultimately proved to be a brief interlude between spells in Spooky Tooth it is quite possible that this album could well have kick started a solo career away from the band which of course is what I am sure the original intention was.
The album has shades of Spooky Tooth about it, which is understandable when taking into account that Mike was an important element of that bands sound.
This album will be welcomed by fans of Spooky Tooth for sure but Mike's debut solo album will certainly please those fans of progressive rock with a soulful twist to it.
www.themusicindex.com /rockahead/reviews/mike_harrison.htm   (702 words)

  
 Rockahead Review ::--:: SPOOKY TOOTH
Spooky Tooth were one of the leading lights of British Progressive Rock in the late sixties and early seventies releasing seminal albums like It's All About The Last Puff, Witness, You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw and the million selling Spooky Two.
It says Spooky tooth featuring Mike Harrison and the idea of that was that I had already planned to move towards doing some solo stuff but I think we were contracted to do one more album.
It was a Spooky Tooth album because Gary Wright does have a song on there, which he covered for his first album the Wrong Time.
www.rockahead.net /reviews/reviewpage.php?rev=539   (3199 words)

  
 Rock Ahead: CD Album: Spooky Tooth - Cross Purpose   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Enter Gary Wright, change of name to "Spooky Tooth" and lo and behold, a 7 album career is up and running where it finishes rather quietly in 1974.
The four founder members minus Gary Wright, who was initially interested but due to other commitments didn't make it in the end, have made a solid comeback with a couple of re-runs, an old Spooky Tooth number, an art number and a World Party cover version amongst the tracks on display.
In essence a Spooky Tooth album and to be honest you don't really miss Gary Wright.
www.themusicindex.com /rockahead/reviews/stooth.htm   (252 words)

  
 Rad Company
By combining standard bicycles with small two stroke engines, Spooky Tooth reinvented the motorcycle for their own thrill seeking purposes "We started off building outlaw bikes that did 45 mph, 55-60 with a nitrous kit," explains Roland Bosma, co-founder of Spooky Tooth.
After pushing against the outdated 1969 revised statute in Tucson, Spooky Tooth actually got the Governor of Arizona to sign a bill on May 19th, 2006, stating that their custom bikes are totally legal without license and registration.
But the future of the company is looking even greener after future EPA restrictions scheduled for 2008 deemed their Chinese motors too dirty, making Spooky Tooth look at electric in a way they never thought they would.
radcompany.net /Storys/IceStorys/SpookyToothCycles/SpookyToothCycles.html   (641 words)

  
 Spooky Tooth "Cross Purpose" (1999) - 6 / 10   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Spooky Tooth "Cross Purpose" (1999) - 6 / 10
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forum.rock.ru /index.php?topic=11159.msg493296   (545 words)

  
 Spooky   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Spooky is an electronica duo consisting of Duncan Forbes and Charlie May.
Spooky later announced that they had bought back the rights to their entire back catalogue from the 5 record companies that previously owned their music, all having gone out of business.
They will be making all tracks available to purchase as downloads from their official site, at the same time as re-releasing Gargantuan on CD in December 2006.
www.buzznet.com /buzzwords/spooky   (387 words)

  
 YouTube - Spooky Tooth - Waitin' For The Wind
Their 1969 lp 'Spooky Two' is genuine classic.....still stands up to this day.
Waitin' For The Wind by Spooky Tooth with Gary...
Spooky Tooth Waitin' For The Wind Gary Wright
www.youtube.com /watch?v=60lnGWZTW-w   (673 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Spooky Tooth
Oh, to be the cliched fly on the wall of the marketing meeting at Universal when this baby was given the green light.
As one of the least well-remembered, let alone respected, hard rock groups of the late '60s-early '70s, Spooky Tooth went on to spawn the silly synth pop of Gary Wright, and the tough boogie of Humble Pie (Pie bassist Greg Ridley was a founding member of Tooth).
Although for a band whose glory days were over in two short albums, one of which, 1969's Spooky Two is represented by a whopping seven tracks, it's hard to imagine how the record company suits think their profit and loss sheets are going to balance in the fl on this compilation.
www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_10/wet_ink/music_st/173_spooky_tooth.shtml   (330 words)

  
 Spooky Two - Spooky Tooth, Music Downloads - Online
Spooky Two FROM CONNECT - Music Downloads Powered by Sony.
The last song, "Hangman Hang My Shell on a Tree," is a splendid example of this group's ability to play off of one another, mixing soulful lyrics with downtrodden instrumentation to conjure up the perfect melancholia.
Although the band lasted about seven years, their other albums never really contained the same passion or talented collaborating by each individual musician as Spooky Two.
musicstore.connect.com /album/180/Spooky-Tooth/Spooky-Two/500000000000002230851.html   (224 words)

  
 Spooky Tooth on MSN Music
Biography: Part of the early-'70s British hard rock scene, Spooky Tooth grew out of the bluesy VIPs and prog-rock group Art and consisted of vocalist Mike Harrison, keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright, guitarist Luther Grosvenor, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Mike Kellie.
Spooky Two is this British blues-rock band's pièce de résistance.
Spooky Tooth appeared to be on its last legs, and being propped up by members of the Grease Band, this record should have been merely one...Read full review
music.msn.com /artist/?artist=16074895   (201 words)

  
 Spooky Tooth
After their first two albums sold respectably in '68 and '69 (their first album, It's All About A Roundabout, was reissued in the U.S. in 1970 as Tobacco Road), bassist Ridley left to join Humble Pie and was replaced by Andy Leigh.
In '74, Spooky Tooth reformed yet again with Mike Patto on vocals and keyboards.
Gary Wright went on to a moderately successful solo career, Mike Jones joined The Leslie West Band and then went on to form Foreigner, Mike Patto died of throat cancer in '79.
members.tripod.com /rant58/id186.htm   (245 words)

  
 Cover Art:  Spooky Tooth / The Mirror
Notes: Those not familiar with Spooky Tooth may remember Gary Wright from his "Dream Weaver" days.
Mick Jones went on to form 'Foreigner', and Mike Patto was an artist in his own right, fronting the band 'Patto'.
A former member of Spooky Tooth was Luther Grosvener, who changed his name to Ariel Bender when he joined Mott The Hoople.
tralfaz-archives.com /coverart/S/spooky_tooth.html   (178 words)

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