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HeadCat's Danny B. Harvey Interview: “It's Just Simple Rock 'N' Roll”
By: Rob Cavuoto
Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B. Harvey (Rockats, 13 Cats, Lonesome Spurs), have teamed up in the high-energy, “take no prisoners” combo HeadCat to remind the world how real rock ‘n roll is supposed to sound! HeadCat serves up a delicious melting pot with flavors of rockabilly, punk, blues and undeniable rock ‘n roll!
Their first single off Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk , “American Beat” is already getting a lot of airplay from radio stations. The CD is packed with some create covers and a few new originals like “I Ain’t Never” a real country, rockabilly number, full of love and ready to take you drifting away. Highlights of the CD are “Let It Rock” is one of the band’s favorite Chuck Berry tunes, which The Stones did it a lot in their live show in the 70′s but HeadCat plays a different version. “Something Else” is a classic Eddie Cochran song, which Lemmy once played with on stage with the Stray Cats, jamming on it at a show in the 90′s at Hammersmith Odeon.
I had a chance to sit down with guitarist Danny B. Harvey and chat about the new CD and working with Lemmy.
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Rob Cavuoto: Tell me a little bit about the band and how it came about. With Lemmy of Motorhead in it with you, it just seems like “one of these things just doesn’t belong.”
Danny B. Harvey: The band started a little over ten years ago. Me and Slim Jim were producing a tribute to Elvis for a record label out in California, so we decided to get our friends and all the different people from different genres of music involved and do an Elvis song the way they want. Jim was friends with both Lemmy and Johnny Ramone, and he suggested that we do a song with the two of them together. I talked to Johnny on the phone, and he wanted to do the original keys and the original tempos, so we recorded the tracks without Lemmy.
Lemmy then came down and sang the vocals to “Good Rockin’ Tonight,”. When he sang “Viva Las Vegas” it was in the wrong key for him. So I picked up a bass, Lemmy picked up an acoustic guitar and Jim got on the drums and we recorded two other Elvis songs in the studio that day. It was such a good time, so we were like, “We should do a whole album together.
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Good Rockin' Tonight: Hooked on Classics
K-Tel didn't always do compilation albums. Although that's what they mainly did, occasionally they would issue original material. The most notable of which were the Hooked on Classics series of classical recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The original Hooked On Classics album came out in 1981 toward the end of the disco era's peak in popularity. Louis Clark, former arranger for Electric Light Orchestra, conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing a collection of very recognizable extracts from classical music pieces played over a continuous beat, much like the Stars On group. While classical purists might bemoan the fact that their beloved classical pieces were put to a disco beat, the album did bring classical music to the masses and the first Hooked on Classics album became K-Tel's biggest all time selling album, selling over 10 million copies. A little side note is that while the compilation albums were released on the K-Tel International Label, this particular K-Tel release came out on RCA Victor. For a K-Tel album this is as near a mint condition vinyl album as I'll probably ever find. I've listed just the main titles for the songs here. In the file is a text document with the breakdown of which classical pieces were included in each cut. MP3s that will appear on this blog will be available for only a week or so(usually far less) and are here for sampling purposes only. It is not my intention to violate copyrights. My only goal is to share my love/hate relationship with music and to expose people to music they may be unfamiliar with. If you are the creator or copyright owner of a song or anything else that might be posted here, please CONTACT ME by sending an e-mail to homercat at shaw dot ca if you wish to have it removed.
Listening to: Elvis Presley - Good Rockin' Tonight ♫ 
Party rockin in the house tonight! Everybody jus have a good time! Idk all the words but I luv tht song
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