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KINGS OF THE SUN - BLACK LEATHER by Clifford Hoad. This was the very clip that was banned in the USA, on MTV in 1989 for apparently being too risque!
Our first album KINGS OF THE SUN was recorded in up state New York with Eddie Kramer at the wheel, he was full of life, seen at that time to be old hat. Jeff and I wanted that classic rock sound from the late 60's early 70's . This was done in Beartracks and Bearsville Studio's owned by Jannis Joplin and Bob Dylan's manager Albert Grossman up in Woodstock. So the album is full of that Woodstock magic, that fills the surrounding hills. Eddie Kramer would try and talk us into buying Ferraris if the album went gold. It was a stand in joke in between takes, the session was full of ping pong, chinese food, plenty of laughter and Eddie's obsession with the album going GOLD, it by rights , should have. Jeff and I were always dissapointed when we get an album with only 2-3 great songs. So we really set out to make every song great, no matter what the style.
Triplet leading with the right hand on the 4 and bass drum playing the offbeat with a sped up inversion at the very end, whew. I love to play the triple time single strokes towards the end. The cowbell in the breakdown was for Gene Krupa, but Steve Tyler from Aerosmith told me it blew his mind when he heard that single shot, he said, "where you put that thing....man o man" , great compliment from an ex drummer.
Thanks everyone for buying the album and loving it!
KOTS FANS, thanks for your wonderful words, its great to know that people are still out there playing our music. The web has been a godsend for people to hear music that they unjustly couldn't get to. Now thanks to you guy's & gals, its all out there to be enjoyed, discovered and shared. Our music is world class, it will just take a while for people to catch up. Great music lives forever, it doesn't go away. The spirit, Jeff and I put into those songs has come through, thats what everyones hearing.
Snare drum sounds are a tricky business - Especially with the 80's soundscapes ;) Many a potentially good song were slaughtered by over innovative 80's sound engineers... Luckily, that wasn't the case with any of our 3 KOTS albums - They're timeless feelgood machines! and what a fight it was to keep em like that. With the big brass and producers telling us in the 80's, that if we didn't bump up our sound we would sound old fashioned, which is what we wanted to sound, classic analogue valve recordings. Natural sound. It certainly was worth the fight!
Please feel free as a kitten to subscribe to my Youtube Channel and share these clips, get the word back out there,and create a new demand for our band so we'll get out there and play. KINGS FOREVER !!! CLIFFORD HOAD.
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Down on the street corner
Looking so cool and hip
Aspiring king Elvis
With that sweet little curl in his lip
While over by his hot rod
With his jukebox 'Deli Queen'
So I ran up and asked the question
Hey how do I make the scene?
He said,
Hey punk go out and get yourself some black leather
Black leather
Heads up, you can't get enough, black leather
Black leather
Some motorcycle mama
She drove right up out of a dream
Covered up in rings and chains like a mean machine
I saddled right up beside her
I said honey now give me the tip
What's a guy gotta do to slip up to you
I waited for her to flip
She said,
Hey boy go on and wrap your toy in black leather
Black leather
Skin tight, sure feels alright, black leather
Black leather
Ooh, black leather
Yeah, black leather
Ooh, black leather
Yeah, black leather
[guitar solo]
I gotta get me some black leather
I finally got it together
I finally made the scene
I got me some black leather
And man do I look mean
Check it from my left side
How is it from the right
I feel so mean, I gotta be seen
Come and get with it tonight
Hey punk, you gotta get yourself some black leather
Black leather
Skin tight, sure looks alright, it's black leather
Black leather
Ooh, black leather
Yeah, black leather
Ooh, black leather
Yeah, black leather
Give me black, (black)
Give me leather, (leather)
I want black leather
Give me black, (black)
Give me leather, (leather)
I want black leather
I said
I want it
I need it
I gotta have it all
It's black
So black
Black leather
Get it together, yeah
Give me black...
