'Lace and Whiskey' is an album many fans love to hate, though why is a bit of a mystery. Sure, it isn't up there with the real classics, but most of the material is still great stuff. Okay, the cover of 'Ubangi Stomp' is dreadful, and a lot of people don't like the disco element that was sneaking in on 'Love At Your Convenience' and 'Damned If You Do', but elsewhere the title track and 'It's Hot Tonight' are great rockers and 'My God' and 'King Of The Silver Screen' are both classics. Maybe not essential but still well worth getting.
April 29th 1977
Track listing
- It's Hot Tonight (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin)(3:20)
- Lace And Whiskey (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin)(3:15)
- Road Rats (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin)(4:54)
- Damned If You Do (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin)(3:13)
- You And Me (Cooper, Wagner)(5:11)
- King of the Silver Screen (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin)(5.35)
- Ubangi Stomp (Chas Underwood)(2:12)
- (No More) Love At Your Convenience (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin)(3:49)
- I Never Wrote Those Songs (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin)(4:34)
- My God (McCarthy, Carroll)(5:42)
Musicians (a.k.a. The Hollywood Vampires)
The credits on the album cover are a little vague (for example did Ezrin and Chirowski really play on every track as suggested?), but this is a best guess based on the information provided:
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Bob Babbitt
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Tony Levin
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Prakash John
Drums: Jim Gordon
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Tony Levin
Drums: Jim Gordon
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Piano: Al Kooper
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Bob Babbitt
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Bob Babbitt
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Tony Levin
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Bob Babbitt
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Backing Vocals: Julia Tillman, Lorna Willard, Venetta Fields
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Bob Babbitt
Drums: Allan Schwartzberg
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski
Piano: Al MacMillan
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Guitars: Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter
Bass: Bob Babbitt
Drums: Jim Gordon
Keyboards: Jozef Chirowski, Bob Ezrin
Percussion, Vocals: Jim Maelan
Backing Vocals: Douglas Neslund and the California Boys' Choir
Sleeve Notes
Produced By Bob Ezrin
Recorded at:
- Soundstage Toronto
- Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles
- The Record Plant East, New York
- RCA Studios, Holywood
- Producers Workshop, Los Angeles
Alcoholic Adviser: Joe Gannon Design by Richard Seireeni/Rod Dyer
Photography: Richard Seireeni
Alice Portraits by Terry O'Neil
Ernie Watts - Tenor Sax and Clarinet
"And, of course, Alice Cooper as Vanna White.'cause I'm the queen of the silver screen."