Word: kooper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Uncontrolled well describes the $200,000 house that Record Producer Al Kooper rebuilt three years ago. It is designed for a person who has nothing to do. Rooms not filled with games (pool, pong, pinball) are studded with dials, toggles and buttons of the "Koopertronics" recording system. Says he: "I built it all myself. It's a ludicrous house for a ludicrous person. But I love...
...done some truckstop music, too as well as some stuff that's plain weird like that book on Charlie Manson Whether he's going to read or sing or variations isn't clear yet. Danny Kaib lead guitarist from the Blues Project the one that spawned Al Kooper and Steve Katz, also appears...
...take care of things. Not feeling particularly mobile, I pushed back the reclining passenger seat (a standard feature on the 1970 Volvo), put my feet up on the dashboard, and turned to L. A.'s psychedelic station on the FM radio. I closed my eyes and listened to Al Kooper's guitar, clasping my hands on my well-packed gut and thinking about the bargain I'd won that...
...LIVE ADVENTURES OF MIKE BLOOMFIELD AND AL KOOPER (2 LPs; Columbia). Mike Bloomfield makes his singing debut with a couple of Ray Charles songs, among others, and shows a bit of Charles' lilting, hesitating sense of the blues. Bloomfield's forte is still his blues guitar playing, which is at its best on this looser, more spontaneous follow-up to his first performance with Kooper on the LP Super Session...
These three groups have provided the fountainheads for the Blues supergroups which are now flourishing, in England and America. These groups are Cream and the self-proclaimed "Super Sessions" group with Bloomfield and Kooper. This nucleus of Blues groups (including the Yardbirds) are in some way responsible for the development of most of the contemporary popular groups, including Blood, Sweat and Tears (Kooper), defunct Electric Flag (Bloomfield), the Jeff Beck Group (Yardbirds), Led Zepplin (Jimmy Page of the Yardbirds) and Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green of the Bluesbreakers...