(Glam / Hard Rock) Neal Smith - Platinum God - 1999, MP3 (tracks), 256 kbps // ex-Alice Cooper

In 1976, The Alice Cooperband broke up. Alice made his "Welcome To My Nightmare", Bruce made "In My Own Way" and Neal started recording an album but didn't finish it. And that's a pitty because although it aint as good as Alice's album it's much better than Michael Bruce's. Well, he did finish it in 1999.
Neal gets help from Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Mike Marconi. Together they started Billion Dollar Babies, see a previous post. Also playing is long time friend Richie Starlet who also did play at the last concert of Glen Buxton in 1997. Jack Douglas produced the album

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Neal Smith’s solo CD; "Platinum God" is the last unreleased solo album of the "Alice Cooper Group" era. Recorded the same year as Alice’s "Welcome To My Nightmare" and Michael Bruce’s, "In My own way". "Platinum God" was recorded at "Record Plant Studios" in New York and one track recorded at "Sunset Sound Studios" in Hollywood. The songs were produced by Jack Douglas (producer of Aerosmith) and Neal Smith, the song recorded at "Sunset Sound", was produced by Jack Douglas and Jack Richardson (producer of The Guess Who).

Neal wrote and sang lead vocals on all the tracks of "Platinum God", as well as playing all drums and percussion. Other musicians featured: Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, Mike Marconi on rhythm & lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Mick Mashbir on rhythm, lead guitar & harmonica, Stu Daye on lead guitar, Richie Scarlet on lead guitar and last but not least the New York Philharmonic string and brass section.

Neal Smith is a world-famous drummer/percussionist, songwriter and founding member of one of the most successful rock n’ roll bands in history, the legendary "Alice Cooper" AKA "The Alice Cooper Group". The first band to introduce theatrics to the world of rock n’ roll, while selling millions of records for the past three decades, over 25,000,000 records sold worldwide to date.

Neal has also played, recorded and wrote with "Billion Dollar Babies", "Flying Tigers", "The Plasmatics", "Buck Dhmara" (of The Blue Oyster Cult), "Deadringer", the late "Bruce Cameron" and "Bouchard, Dunaway and Smith" (Joe Bouchard from "B.O.C." and Dennis Dunaway from "Alice Cooper").

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