(Rock) Ian Hunter - Welcome To The Club (ex.Mott The Hoople) - 1980, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Ian Hunter (born Ian Hunter Patterson, 3 June 1939, Oswestry, Shropshire) is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before Mott The Hoople, and he continued in this vein after he left the band. As the leading figure in Mott The Hoople, but facing ill-health and disillusioned with commercial success, he embarked on a solo career, often in collaboration with Mott The Hoople's guitarist Mick Ronson, who was well-known as David Bowie's sideman and arranger from the Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars period.[1]

Mott The Hoople achieved a certain level of commercial success and a small but devoted fan base. As a solo artist Hunter at times made the charts while most consistently releasing lesser-known but more wide-ranging works outside the rock mainstream. Among his best-known solo records are "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "Cleveland Rocks," made famous from a cover version on the American TV series The Drew Carey Show.
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Early years

Hunter's entry into the music business came after a chance encounter with Colin York and Colin Broom at Butlin's Holiday Camp, where the trio won a talent competition performing "Blue Moon" on acoustic guitars.[2] York and Broom were members of a Northampton-based band called The Apex Group, fronted by bass player and band leader Frank Short. Ian soon left his home in Shrewsbury, transferred his apprenticeship from Sentinel/Rolls Royce to British Timpken in Northampton, and joined The Apex Group on rhythm guitar. Ian recalls jumping around like a lunatic on stage: "Music affected me so much. The rest of them just stood there. It was funny, I had kids who came just to watch me do this, and I can't imagine what it looked like." [2]

Hunter left The Apex Group in 1958, just before they recorded their first single "Yorkshire Relish, Caravan" for John Lever Records.[3] (Lever, the owner of a local record shop, had recently joined as the band's drummer). Ian kicked around in a few local groups, but eventually his financial situation forced a change. "I wasn't making my hire-purchase payments, and 'little jobs' were getting done and people were getting smacked. I was never in the middle of it, but I was always somewhere in the area."[2] He returned to Shrewsbury, ostensibly to become more responsible in his personal life, and settled down enough to have a steady girlfriend in Diane Coles. Outside his day job with McGowans fruit and vegetable company, he formed a harmonica duo with Tony Wardle, inspired by Morton Fraser's Harmonica Gang, a local variety act.

Once out of debt and seemingly settled, Ian returned to Northampton and The Apex Group. Diane soon followed and the two married and settled in St James End. Their first child, Stephen, was born there in 1962. Tensions were in the air though, both musically and in his personal life. While his wife attended to home life, Hunter resumed his wild ways with his Northampton mates.

Although The Apex Group had steady regional work at clubs and military bases, Hunter eventually bristled at the formality of The Apex Group, who wore matching stage jackets and were moving increasingly toward an R&B-like stage review. So in 1963, while still a group member, Ian formed his own band in direct competition to them: Hurricane Henry and the Shriekers, with Tony Marriott on drums and Julian Coulter on guitar. They worked steadily in Northampton and eventually attracted the attention of pianist and frontman Freddie 'Fingers' Lee. Lee joined in March 1964 and Ian moved from frontman to bass player. Eventually, Frank Short learned of Hunter's duplicity and he was kicked out of The Apex Group.

It was during this period - late 1963 or early 1964 - that The Apex recorded a second disc for John Lever records, released as The Apex Rhythm & Blues All Stars. The four-song EP included their own "Tall Girl", and covers of Chuck Berry's "Reeling and A'Rocking", "Down the Road A'piece", also recorded by Berry and later The Rolling Stones, and "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer and The Fireballs. Hunter probably does not appear on this record; the EP was recorded around the time Hunter left the group for the second time.[3]

At Freddie Lee's suggestion, The Shriekers began taking jobs in Germany, playing the same clubs where the Beatles had cut their teeth a few years earlier. In an interview taped in 2004 Hunter volunteers that Lee and their gigs in Hamburg were a major turning point, when he first began to "think maybe I could do this instead of working in factories."[4]

In 1966 Hunter moved to London, where he joined The Scenery with guitarist Miller Anderson, drummer Dave Dufort, and keyboard player Dante Smith. Within a year Anderson introduced Hunter to another guitarist, Mick Ronson, whom Hunter would later collaborate with a great deal since Ian was keen on Mick when he first met him. Ian first saw Mick when Miller took him to see Ronson's band, the Voice at the Swan public house in Tottenham. A few months later Hunter and Ronson actually met when Anderson introduced them when Mick was playing in another band, The Rats, at the Flamingo Club in London. According to Anderson, "Mick was coming down the stairs . . . and we were going up and I said, `Mick, this is my friend, Ian Patterson.'"[5] By 1967 Smith and Dufort had left The Scenery while John Vernon Smith joined on drums. The Scenery recorded some material with Bill Farley at Regent Sound, but without knowing about a release, two Scenery tracks were licensed overseas. Hunter and Anderson both remember writing and recording "To Make a Man Cry," but neither artist recalls the B-side "Thread of Time." Scenery drummer John Vernon Smith appears on the picture sleeve, but Johnny Banks from The Merseybeats played on the record. Miller recollects that Johnny Gustafson was also included in the session work. Released on the Impact label, it is unclear whether they originated from France or Belgium. Both are marked BIEM, which administered royalties in both countries prior to the formation of SACEM in France (1972) and SABAM in Belgium. The Impact label appears to have issued records in both countries.[3] In any case, by early 1968, The Scenery had run its course and Miller Anderson joined Dave Dufort in Paper Blitz Tissue.

By 1968 Hunter remained in the band to back up Freddie Lee in the At Last The 1958 Rock and Roll Show, along with drummer Pete Phillipps and guitarist Chris Mayfield. The group got a regular booking at The Angel in Edmonton, and drew interest from both Chrysalis Records and NEMS but the group was never signed by either. Mayfield was replaced by the ever travelling Miller Anderson, and the group released a single on CBS called "I Can't Drive." As the short-lived rock and roll revival began to wane, At Last the 1958 Rock and Roll Show changed its name to Charlie Woolfe and released a final single, "Dance, Dance, Dance".

Hunter played sporadically with various other artists throughout the 1960s, including The Young Idea, Billy Fury and David McWilliams. In late 1968 Mickie Most hired Hunter and Dufort to play in a band that was to be called "The New Yardbirds" -- a name that Jimmy Page had been using for his post-Yardbirds group before discarding it in favor of "Led Zeppelin". This led confused fans to think Hunter had been a member of Led Zeppelin. Explained Hunter: "See this is rubbish, but people read it and believe it."[6] Hunter also worked as a journalist and staff songwriter for the firm Francis, Day & Hunter (no relation). Other jobs he took during these years included road-digging for a local council, and reporting for a local newspaper. During the same early years of Hunter's obscurity, Hereford's Shakedown Sound gigged in roughly the same circles as Ian but without any sort record company interest at all.[7] Ian and the band were to meet up presently.

Mott The Hoople years
Ian Hunter in 1973 as a member of Mott the Hoople.

By 1969 Hunter had two children, but he was still hoping for a return to making music full time. Meanwhile, guitarist Mick Ralphs joined organist Verden Allen in Jimmy Cliff's backing band, The Shakedown Sound. Eventually Ralphs, Allen, vocalist Stan Tippins, bassist Overend Watts, and drummer Dale Griffin united to become Silence, who auditioned for British impresario Guy Stevens. Silence soon renamed themselves after a novel by Willard Manus, published in 1966: Mott The Hoople.[8] Lacking a credible singer with stage presence according to Stevens, the band auditioned a considerably seasoned Hunter, who auditioned for the band on a lark. By this time Hunter had taken to wearing the sunglasses that have long since become his trademark (photos of him without his "shades" are rare). The band was a critical success in the UK; some of the earliest and most dedicated early fans of the band included future members of the Clash.[9] However, they could not sustain their commercial appeal, and their early American tours on the east and west coasts were slow in building a following. After releasing several LPs, Mott attracted enthusiastic live audiences but dismal sales despite the svengali-like leadership and promotion of their manager, Guy Stevens.[10] After a dreary 1972 concert in a "gas cylinder" in Switzerland, the band announced their end.

David Bowie, a fan of the band, offered them a song he had just written. As Hunter recalled in a 2004 DVD interview, "He offered us "Suffragette City", which I didn't think was good enough. And then he sat down on the floor, Regent Street it was, in a publisher's office, and plays 'All The Young Dudes' on an acoustic guitar."[4] It shot to No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart and Mott had new life. The band generally were appreciative of Bowie who had rescued them from an early demise. The guitarist Mick Ralphs relates that Bowie taught Mott studio tricks, but one of the best-known sounds during the period was a 'hand-clap-in-the-toilet' routine that relied more on Hunter's vision than it did on Bowie's clearly more experienced studio abilities.[11] Mick Ronson, Bowie's guitarist, also significantly contributed to Mott's sound, a fact noticed by Hunter who would later collaborate a great deal with him, although Ian had actually met Mick years before in a pre-Bowie band.[12]

The post-Bowie Mott the Hoople then had notable commercial success with the albums All the Young Dudes (1972, produced by Bowie); Mott (1973) and The Hoople (1974). The band began to score financially with songs such as "Roll Away The Stone," "Golden Age Of Rock´n´Roll," "Honaloochie Boogie," "All The Way From Memphis," "Saturday Gigs," and especially "All The Young Dudes." Hunter chronicled the highs and lows of touring in his self-penned, "Diary of A Rock'n'Roll Star," his journal of a chaotic five-week American tour in November - December 1972.[13] When in 1973 original lead guitarist Mick Ralphs left to form Bad Company, Hunter began to play guitar until a replacement could be found but at the same time he was increasingly pressured to write hits for the band. Luther Grosvenor took over as lead guitarist. Grosvenor, aka Ariel Bender, was briefly replaced by Mick Ronson (formerly the leading member of David Bowie's backing band The Spiders from Mars) after the release of a live album following The Hoople. However, Hunter left the band in December 1974. The remaining members carried on under the names Mott and British Lions.

On January 16, 2009 it was announced by several sources, including Hunter's own website, that Mott the Hoople would be re-uniting for two concerts at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, on October 2 and 3, 2009. Reportedly all five of the original members will participate. Tickets for both gigs sold out on the weekend of release, and three more shows have been added.

After Mott

In March 1975 Hunter joined forces with Mick Ronson; during his solo career, Hunter most frequently worked with Ronson until the latter's death in 1993. Hunter's first single from his eponymous solo album was the UK Top 40 hit "Once Bitten Twice Shy". Hunter and Ronson then parted professionally (reportedly due to Hunter's refusal to have to deal with Ronson's manager at the time, Tony DeFries). Hunter's second solo album, All American Alien Boy, was a more soul-infused work, featuring saxophonist David Sanborn, bassist Jaco Pastorius, and, on one track, Queen (one-time opening act for Mott the Hoople) on backing vocals. With his next album Overnight Angels (produced by Roy Thomas Baker and featuring former Bowie sideman Earl Slick on lead guitar), Hunter opted for a heavier guitar sound. Hunter's record label in America, Columbia Records, refused to release the album in the US. According to Ian Hunter, this was due not so much to dissatisfaction on Columbia's part towards the record, but to issues concerning Hunter's management at the time: "Overnight Angels was not released in the US because I fired my manager, Fred Heller, during the English promotional tour - just before it was to be released in America. Columbia said they didn't want to release it until I had new management and that dragged on until it became too late."[1]

Mick Ronson returned as producer and guitarist on Hunter's 1979 album You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, which also featured several members from Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as well as John Cale. Two songs from Schizophrenic became successes for other artists: in late 1979, "Ships" was covered by Barry Manilow and became a top ten U.S. hit, and in 1997, "Cleveland Rocks" was covered by the Presidents of the United States of America (whose version was used as the theme song for The Drew Carey Show). "Cleveland Rocks" is arguably Hunter's most enduring solo song; it is seen as a de facto anthem in Cleveland, Ohio (sometimes used as a victory song for the city's sports teams) and Hunter was given the key to the city by Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich on June 19, 1979.[14]

The bestselling status of Schizophrenic led to Hunter's record label at the time, Chrysalis Records, commissioning the release of a double album, Welcome to the Club (1980). Primarily a live album, it also features some original studio material. Hunter toured briefly with Todd Rundgren on guitar in 1980, playing eleven shows on the East Coast. His first studio album of the 1980s was Short Back 'n' Sides (1981), produced in collaboration with Mick Jones (of The Clash) and Mick Ronson. Ronson's input on Hunter's next album, All of the Good Ones Are Taken (1983), was restricted to his playing guitar on only one track. The title track was a minor hit in the U.S. after MTV put the song's video into what they called at the time 'heavy rotation', playing it over and over, every few hours. In the same year, Ronson traveled to Canada to produce a third album, Hammer on a Drum, for the Payolas (often written as 'The Payola$'). Hunter provided backing vocals on one of the tracks and Ronson contributed keyboards and vocals.[15]

Yui Orta was released as a joint-album by Hunter and Mick Ronson in 1990. The pair performed alongside David Bowie and Queen at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in April 1992. A year later, Ronson died of liver cancer. Hunter wrote and recorded the song "Michael Picasso" as a tribute to Ronson; it was included on Hunter's 1996 album The Artful Dodger, the follow-up to Dirty Laundry (1995). Hunter also appeared on Ronson's posthumously-released solo album, Heaven and Hull (1994) and performed at the first Mick Ronson Memorial Concert in April 1994.

In 2001, Hunter toured North America with Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band as part of a line-up which included Ringo Starr, Sheila E., Greg Lake, Howard Jones, Roger Hodgson, and Mark Rivera. Hunter' next studio album, Rant, released the same year, received wide critical acclaim, and was followed by two live albums: 2004's Strings Attached (with a 20-piece orchestra accompanying Hunter), and 2005's The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nuthin' But The Truth (featuring Mick Ralphs, Joe Elliott of Def Leppard and Brian May of Queen). Hunter won Classic Rock Magazine's Songwriter Award in October 2005. His latest studio album, Shrunken Heads, was released in May 2007. The album was released by Jerkin' Crocus promotions in Europe and Yep Roc Records in the U.S., accompanied by a three-song bonus CD. Hunter's most recent album is Man Overboard for New West Records. The album was released on July 21, 2009.[16]

Discography

Solo albums

* Ian Hunter (1975)
* All American Alien Boy (1976)
* Overnight Angels (1977)
* You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic (1979)
* Welcome to the Club (1980)
* Short Back 'n' Sides (1981)
* All of the Good Ones Are Taken (1983)
* Yui Orta (1990) – with Mick Ronson
* BBC Live in Concert (1995)
* Dirty Laundry (1995)
* The Artful Dodger (1996)
* Once Bitten Twice Shy (2000)
* Missing In Action (2000)
* Rant (2001)
* Strings Attached (DVD and CD) (2004)
* Just Another Night (DVD, 2004, US release, 2005))
* The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth (DVD and CD) (2005)
* Shrunken Heads (2007)
* Man Overboard (2009)

Mott The Hoople albums
Main article: Mott the Hoople discography

* Mott the Hoople (1969) – UK #66
* Mad Shadows (1970) – UK #48
* Wildlife (1971) – UK #44
* Brain Capers (1971) – did not chart
* All The Young Dudes (1972) – UK #21 / U.S. #89
* Mott (1973) – UK #7 / U.S. #35
* The Hoople (1974) – UK #11 / U.S. #28
* Live (1974) – UK #32 / U.S. #23
* Old Records Never Die: The Mott The Hoople/Ian Hunter Anthology (August 2008) 2CD set - Mott on one disk, Hunter solo on the other