The Fabulous 80's! Fender skirts, hula-hoops, and everybody liked Ike. And emerging from the wreckage of the legendary Dogs / Lumbertones scene (which was the TRUE birth of "Grunge", except they weren't on drugs or in Seattle), John Cook started home recording and touring with his little machines.
What an idiot. This was the ONLY person who ever used the Roland
TB-303 the way it was designed - a bass machine. Boom-pah, boom-pah .... Oh Lord. Europeans and druggies world wide were spinning the knobs and creating techno stuff that I guess is called "Acid". You still hear it. It's awesome. Same machines. Aw' screw them. The Eddie Haskell Experience could still make a room GET
SPASTIC .
All was going well until Cook abandoned The Experience and his solo career and joined this
"supergroup" in a cynical effort to sell out. This proved to be a critical and finacial disaster. After a near deadly reaction to the extensive makeup, poison ivy, and several relatives going into the witness protection program (there is a little known "Shame" provision), he retreated to the furthest reaches of nowhere.
Today, the Eddie Haskell Experience lives on. At least in a little studio in a place you never heard of.
For the unauthorized version of the Eddie Haskell Experience rise/downfall:
Behind the Music
Oh, please don't forget to check out my old tune Detroit Iron, awesomely
recorded by honest to goodness legend Jimmy Thackery (& The Drivers) .
I don't think it can be posted here, because it's still for sale on
both Sinner Street and The Essential Jimmy Thackery and Jimmy Thackery Live!. It's
also on iTunes. If you Google some combination of "Detroit Iron", Thackery,
and/or "John Cook" you can get some pretty cool reviews - some from faraway
lands.
Detroit Iron @ Sedalia Blues Fest 7/12/08
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