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Something about that Cobra on the Blackfoot album still cracks me up. I just picture a bunch of Florida rednecks sitting in a room, one of whom says:

"You know what we should put on the album? Goddamned Cobra. Cobra's are bad as hell and rock as fuck!"

Then the rest of the band gets all excited, high fives, and does another couple of bong rips.

In fact, if you look at their catalog, Strikes is the first in a series of album covers for Blackfoot featuring "bad ass animals" all "close up and shit."

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Something about that Cobra on the Blackfoot album still cracks me up. I just picture a bunch of Florida rednecks sitting in a room, one of whom says:

"You know what we should put on the album? Goddamned Cobra. Cobra's are bad as hell and rock as fuck!"

Then the rest of the band gets all excited, high fives, and does another couple of bong rips.

In fact, if you look at their catalog, Strikes is the first in a series of album covers for Blackfoot featuring "bad ass animals" all "close up and shit."

I would imagine that your narrative is exactly how that album cover was conceived. ;-)

Of course, they could have used a close-up of a Cottonmouth in striking position and it would have achieved a similar effect. But then, that would have made too much sense given that Cottonmouths are native to Florida.

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The Blackfoot album was called "Strikes." Any snake would do.

Those Florida boys recorded the album in Michigan.

You can take the Florida boy out of Florida, etc. I'm sure they would retort, "A cobra ain't just any damned snake. It's not like some bullshit cottonmouth or something. It's a goddamned cobra!"

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Los Bravos

Black is Black

Yep, I loved that song, one of those where time stopped when it came on the radio. Another that affected me that way was "Nobody But Me" as covered by the Human Beinz in 1968, originally an Isley Brothers song. I particularly liked the guitar break--very 1968.

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Something about that Cobra on the Blackfoot album still cracks me up. I just picture a bunch of Florida rednecks sitting in a room, one of whom says:

"You know what we should put on the album? Goddamned Cobra. Cobra's are bad as hell and rock as fuck!"

Then the rest of the band gets all excited, high fives, and does another couple of bong rips.

In fact, if you look at their catalog, Strikes is the first in a series of album covers for Blackfoot featuring "bad ass animals" all "close up and shit."

I would imagine that your narrative is exactly how that album cover was conceived. ;-)

Of course, they could have used a close-up of a Cottonmouth in striking position and it would have achieved a similar effect. But then, that would have made too much sense given that Cottonmouths are native to Florida.

And here's the reaction of a native Floridian to this debate:

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I had a neighbor at my old apartment who said nothing could scare her... but then added a tall dark creepy guy in a hat on the bus kind of bothered her... so I posted the lyrics to the song above on her apartment door with "From a tall dark stranger in a hat" written on the bottom. She freeked! It took half an hour to cool her down...

"Gonna Get Close To You"

I like to look at shadows sweating on the wall
I get excited when I hear footsteps in the hall
Outside your balcony I have a room with a view
And I'm watching you

I dial your telephone each and every afternoon
I wait by your door till you're asleep at night
And when you're alone I know when you
Turn out the light

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
I'm gonna get close

You fumble for your keys
I'm six or seven steps behind you
I'm so close to you
Are you terrified of me? What do I know about you
How did I find out?
You think I'm a fool or maybe some kind of lunatic
Say I'm wasting my time but I know what to do with it
It's as plain as black and white

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
Oh so close

If you knew my infinite charm
There'd be no reason to be so alarmed
Maybe I'm wrong maybe I'm right
Maybe I'm some kind of lunatic
You say I'm wasting all of my time
But I know what to do with it
It is plain as black and white

I'm gonna get close to you
Oh-Oh so close to you
I'm gonna get close to you
I'm like a hungry Criminal
and your protection is minimal
So minimal
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Another one I like is "The Cheater" by Bob Kuban and the In-Men. It reached #12 on Billboard in 1966, right in the prime time of one-hit wonders. Kuban's best singles after didn't even approach the top 50. His band is in the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in the One-Hit Wonders Exhibit (accd'g to Wiki).

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I can't believe I even remember this one. I never owned it, I never liked it, but it's been taking up some brain cells apparently....

HAHA!!!THOSE wankers!!

We were booked to do a gig in Frankfurt, Germany with a Swiss band we were friends with. At the last minute, the promoter moved our band to a larger venue. We were bummed....and even moreso when we all found out Right Said Fred had been stuck in our original slot.

After we played our gig, we hopped a cab out to the original club trying to catch what was left of our Swiss friends's set....and we get there and they are brawling we the wamnkers from Right Said Fred!, Classic.

(The Infamous Beer Nurse Tale....)

To make the night even weirder, when we all left the venue in a cab, headed back into the city, we came upon a car crash that had JUST happened. The driver was just staggering from the car with blood on his face and the passenger door was open with a guy laying against the dash. Their car had smashed head on into a telephone pole and was partially on train tracks. So we yell to the cab driver to stop and we all hop out and run over to try and help. Our guitarist, Ronni Crooks, was a licensed medical,assistant, so she attended yelled to get the dazed, wadering guy while she attended to the one still in the car. We got the wandering guy to sit back in the driver seat, as he seemed to be in shock. Both Ronni and Linda, the keyboard player, were dressed in short, skin tight dresses and we all been drinking good German beer all night. The passenger becomes concious and is staring in bewilderment as he is looking around at the two girls crawling over him to stop the bleeding and check the vitals of the driver. As Ronni leans across to the driver over the dazed passenger with her ass almost in his face and short dress riding up....she lets out a really LOUD beer fart and the dazed guy gets a completely stunned look. We all bust out laughing as Ronni turns to the guy and says "Oops, sorry."

Then, we hear a train horn and around the bend comes a passenger train. We pannick, thinking we have to pull the guys out of the car since the from of the car is blocking the tracks.....but, to our surprise, the trains pulls close, slows down and STOPS....and all the people start getting out to watch!! About then we hear sirens approaching and as police and ambulances arrive, we get back in the cab and go back to our hotel. For the next two weeks of gigs, every time Ronni leaned over on stage the keyboard player hit a fart sample on her keyboard and we'd all say "Beer Nurse!!" (Ronni's ghost will probably stab me in my sleep tonight for telling this :)

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Did anyone mention Tommy Tutone's one MEGA hit ?

I have an cool story for this one as well....

i was sharing a house in Rochester NY in 1978-79, while recording my first album, with two guys who were cousins. They were a guitar player and a drummer and had spotted me in a local Gold Circle at the checkout and said "Are you a musician, maaaan?" i said, yeah, a bass olayer and got the typical "Dude, we're LOOKING for a bass player!!" I didn't think fast enough and gave them my real phone number when they asked. Anyway, they called me twice a day for weeks, leaving messages to "come over an d jam, maaan!!" Finally, I said OK, fine. I'm already in a band but I'll come over." So I went and olayed and then they said they had a spare room for rent and it was SO insanely cheap (LESS than $100/mo!!!) that I said OK (the room had a flat track motorcycle being built in it, in front of a giant tank full of phiranas!!!!...and I had to paint it....but for less than $100 it was a stral!)

So, I moved in with the only catch that Inhad to jam with them once a week in the attic. About the fifth time we were jamming, there was a loud screaming coming from downstairs. So loud that we stopped playong and went downstairs. The guitar player's GF had been laying on his bed watching TV, waiting formhim to get done playing. When we went downstairs, she is in the bed totally covered in acoustic ceiling tiles that had caved in from all our playing upstairs (the drummer was a pretty big guy) and the house ahaking. But the funniest part was, besides all the ceiling tiles, his girlfriend was covered in HUNDREDS of porno magaInes!!!! It was pretty hilarious. And she was wcreaming at her boyfriend, calling him a "fking pervert" for all the porn. It turned out that the previous tenant was the beat friend of the drummer and the kid's parents lived right next door. So, when the last guy moved out, he was afraid to throw out all,his porn because his parents might see it in the garbage. So.....he sealed it all up in a fake ceiling!!! Hahaha....what a wacky idea?? Bit there were HUNDREDS of porn magazines.

One of my personality disorders is.....I have never even bought a Play oy Magazine. No shit. Always was lucky enough to have hot GFs, so I just never bought any porn. But as we all were cleaning up that room and bagging everything up......I see a gorgeous girl, just my type.....on the pages of one of the open magazines. It's a Playboy. So, I end up checking out the pictorial and read the page about the girl.....and she"s into stuff I am into. She spent part of her centerfold money to buy a VW Bug convertable...and I owned a couple VW Karmann Ghia convertables and a Bug at the time. She did jazz dancing and loved old blues piano and Pete Johnson stride playing, which I had some of in my record collection,s ince I was a radio DJ.

So......with much laughter from my roommates....I sent her a letter and a rare Vinyl box set of stride piano player Pete Johnson. And yes, I put in a photo. For the next few weeks, most of my roommates' friends who came over got a good laugh after hearing I sent a letter to a Playmate. A couple months later, we are getting ready to go upstairs to jam on a Saturday and the phone rings. The drummers prissy little.girlfriend comes out and hands it to me and says "It's for you." I ask who is it? She says "Some girl that's been calling." Naturally, prissy girl never gave me any messages. I get on the phone and say "Hi. Who's this?"

And the reply comes "Hi. It's Karen Morton." For a second, I think the name sounds familiar and then it hits me....IT'S THE PLAYBOY CHICK!! I'm totally caught off guard and just say "Karen Morton?!?!"

.......and all the guys sitting in front of me go silent and stare. So we talk for like a half hour and ahe says she has called four or five times and left messages, none of which I got.

The beat part, which still sits in my brain cells decades later, was her phrase, "I'll be in New York working a car show. Would you mind going out with me?" Now for a kid to get called by a Playboy centerfold is one thing, having her ask you out is a totally other thing. Just a cool,life moment.

Anyway.....all of the guys who laughed at me ended up eating crow and saying "I can't believe it man!"

Anyway....the reason for the story....Karen is the femme fatale in this Tommy Tutone video as well. Which makes the story even cooler.

For all the HFC pervs....You can tell I'm a leg and ass man because Karen Morton held the record for smallest boobs ever for a Playboy Centerfold. Sadly, she died last year after contracting a rare, horrible disease a decade earlier.

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