PAUL WARREN & EXPLORER - ONE OF THE KIDS (1980)
The first recording Paul Warren ever played on was "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" by The Temptations. He played with Pacific, Gas & Electric, Rare Earth, Ray Manzarek's Nite City. And then he formed his own band Explorer.
Explorer was on top of the L.A. club band scene around the time of the Knack's "My Sharona." This power pop group was featured on Wolfman Jack's Midnite Special TV show before they got signed an RSO record deal. The band was a regular on the Sunset Strip scene playing almost every weekend at either the Roxy, Whisky a Go Go, the Starwood, and Madame Wongs in China Town. The album was produced by British Peter Coleman, who was the engineer with the Nick Gilder/Knack records for pop producer Mike Chapman. This cocksure all Detroit-L.A. based hot rocker band had a level of intensity to be reckoned with in comparison to a seemingly passive Hollywood scene. The album failed, RSO folded, Paul Warren unemployed and back to top studio musician. But the album has become a lost power pop classic ("Takin' Her Back" should've been a hit, but never was) and it has never been reissued.
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4 comments:
Thanks again - another gem. I never knew he played on Papa Was A Rolling Stone.
He's also the current guitarist in the band "Cactus".
thanx, i didn't know, not suprised they are covering "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" on the cactus album
@ Angelo, And Thank You as I wasn't aware of this solo release.
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