In Loving Memory of
HELEN
WHEELS
Tribute to Helen Wheels
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Tribute to Helen WheelsThe Helen Wheels Tribute is now available from CDBABY. com and in stores July 17. Buck Dharma sings lead on the incredible "Elle Sol" and contributed his trademark guitar to several tracks. Crispin Cioe, who's played with everybody-- from the President of the U.S. to the Godfather of Soul-- played sax, as he often did on numerous "Downtown Diva" bills with Helen (her duet with NY Doll Sylvaine Sylvaine was particularly memorable). Scott "Top Ten" Kempner , who's currently splitting his time between the Dictators and a project with Neil Geraldo (Derringer, Pat Benatar), chose the album's only cover, an impromptu acoustic version of Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom," It was one of the first songs the Dictators did when they first backed Helen, and Scott played it in subsequent versions of the Wheels band, one of which evolved into his next major label project, the Del Lords. Jack Secret (one of the secrets of BÖC's Imaginos-- he's agent 777, among other things) lent his inimitable growl to "Room to Rage" and " Will to Survive." Ross the Boss, of both Dictators and Man O'War fame, burns on "Room to Rage." The Brain Surgeons contributed new versions of "Sinful Love," "Niagara Falls," and "St. Vitus." One song, "Stealin' Thing." didn't make the final album, but as is fairly certain with most music Albert Bouchard has had a hand in, it will inevitably surface somewhere. Hopefully, it will not take as long as the Stalk-Forrest Group! Felice Rosser , whose praises have been sung by New Yorkers from Spike Lee to Lisa Jones (whose Village Voice on the subject can be found in your bookstores in the anthology Rock, She Wrote) sings the lead-off track, "Lover's Loan." Felice may be familiar as the background voice on previous Brain Surgeons' efforts. Check out her own band Faith. Dictator Adny Shernoff and Tish and Snooky (singers in the original Blondie, the S*c F*cs, and founders of the Manic Panic cosmetic empire) contributed to "Sinful Love." Sandy Roeser, better known for lyrics and backrgrounds for BÖC and Buck Dharma's Flat Out , steps up to an inspiring lead vocal on "Hero," which Helen co-wrote with Albert and Mark ("Pretty Flamingos") Barkan. The Ithaca band Helen was working with at the time of her death, Static Cling, recorded one of the last songs she wrote, "As I Bleed." Jack Rigg, veteran of both Helen and David Johansen's bands, co-author of "Joan Crawford" and provider of many of the guitars on Imaginos, pulled out all the stops on "Goodbye Joe."Joe Bouchard, aided by Alice Cooper's Neal Smith and Dennis Dunaway, re-interpreted "Fallen Angel," an ode to one of the many bikers who claimed Helen as their own. |
