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4 unusual facts about Eric Burdon


Chris Huston

He worked particularly extensively with Eric Burdon and War on their albums through the 1970s and 1980s, winning a Grammy Award for The World is A Ghetto (1973).

Howard E. Scott

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The Spike Drivers

The band was showcased at many clubs in the New York area with the high point occurring when they opened for Eric Burdon and the Animals at the Rheingold Central Park Music Festival in 1966.

The Yellow Payges

The Yellow Payges - now comprising Hortter (lead vocals, harmonica), Ham (lead guitar), Barnes (bass) and Gorman (drums) - continued to release singles, and played the Hollywood Bowl as support to Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Rascals and Tommy James and the Shondells.


Ana Popović

In 2000, she appeared, alongside Eric Burdon, Taj Mahal, Buddy Miles, Double Trouble, Eric Gales and others, on Jimi Hendrix tribute album Blue Haze: Songs of Jimi Hendrix with a cover of the song "Belly Button Window".

Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted

This was a reunion of the five original Animals from the group's first incarnation — Eric Burdon, Alan Price, Hilton Valentine, Chas Chandler, and John Steel, in their first recording sessions (and, save for a one-off concert in 1968, their first musical project at all) since 1965.

Cactus World News

After leaving Cactus World News, Sheehy went on to record and tour with Ronnie Wood, Bo Diddley, Robert Palmer, Michelle Shocked, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Carl Carlton, Hinterland, Dave-Id Busarus and Hothouse Flowers (appearing on both Born and Live).

Cretan lyra

Georgia Dagaki is known for playing the instrument at the current shows of rock singer Eric Burdon.

Damizza

His love of music and burgeoning recognition with the rock and roll establishment has opened him to meeting and working with an ever-growing list of rock icons, among them Terry Reid and Eric Burdon of the Animals & War, drummer Phil Jones (longtime percussionist and drummer for Tom Petty) and bass player Rick "The Bass Player" Rosas of Neil Young/Joe Walsh fame.

Donn Landee

Landee recorded "Sky Pilot" in this room for Eric Burdon and The Animals and created the phase effect used in the song "The Big Hurt." Landee then worked at Sunwest Studios as an engineer in 1968, where he later became manager before moving on to Amigo Studios under Lee Herschberg.

Forty Days and Forty Nights

"Forty Days and Forty Nights" has been recorded by various blues and other artists, including Steppenwolf from Steppenwolf 7, John Hammond, Jr., Eric Burdon from his Soul of a Man album, and Buddy Guy for the Cadillac Records soundtrack.

Horst Lippmann

Attendees of early festivals included such influential musicians as Mick Jagger, Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, and Steve Winwood.

Jimmy Zavala

Other artists Jimmy Zavala has performed and/or recorded with include Dr. Dre, Willy DeVille, Rick Springfield, Carole King, Eric Burdon, Rita Coolidge, Thomas Dolby, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Yes, Rick Price, Corey Hart and Shakespears Sister.

Martin Gerschwitz

In late 1999, he was asked to be the keyboardist for Eric Burdon & the New Animals, after Neal Morse and Ryo Okumoto (both Spock's Beard) left the band.

Newcastle City Hall

The Animals reunited and performed there for a one-off performance in 1968, after lead vocalist Eric Burdon disbanded them and formed a new version of the band.

Pyx Lax

Most of their English-language songs were included in their last album Haroumeni Stin Poli ton Trelon (2003), in which they collaborated with internationally famous artists, such as Eric Burdon, Gordon Gano, Marc Almond and Steve Wynn.

Trial by Fire: Greatest and Latest

The song "The House of the Rising Sun" on this album came about originally because BTO played at an outdoor concert in Sturgis, South Dakota for a biker event with Eric Burdon of The Animals also on the bill.


see also

They Can't Take Away Our Music

Like most of the other studio tracks recorded by Eric Burdon & War, the song was banned from YouTube in the early years.