VA A Tribute To Lee Brilleaux Vol. 1 cd 1998LITTLE BOB STORY: Down At The Doctors / CHICANO BLUES: I'm In The Mood / THE SHARPERS: Quit While You're Behind / LEE'S: Monkey / VENICE: The Feelgood Factor / THE DOGS: She's a Windup / CADILLAC JONES: Baby Jane / SHAGGY DOGS: Roxette / FACE TO FACE: She Does It Right / KINGSIZE: Keep It Out Of Sight / SCREECH OWLS: My Sugar Turns To Alcohol / BACKSLIDERS: Drives Me Wild / VICTOIRE & CO: Mad Man Blues / CADILLAC JONES: Tell Me No Lies / SHAGGY DOGS: I Can Tell / THE SHARPERS: I'm A Hog For You Baby / CHICANO BLUES: Java Blue / THE DOGS: Sugar Shaker / VENICE: Every Kind Of Vice / LEE'S: Punch Drunk / SCREECH OWLS: Heart Of The City / BACKSLIDERS:Best In The World / VICTOIRE & CO: Rock Me Baby / LITTLE BOB STORY: Riot In Cell Block N° 9.
Dr. Feelgood was the ultimate working band. From their formation in 1971 to lead vocalist Lee Brilleaux's untimely death in 1994, the band never left the road, playing hundreds of gigs every year. Throughout their entire career, Dr. Feelgood never left simple, hard-driving rock & roll behind, and their devotion to the blues and R&B earned them a devoted fan base. That following first emerged in the mid-'70s, when Dr. Feelgood became the leader of the second wave of pub rockers. Unlike Brinsley Schwarz, the laid-back leaders of the pub rock scene, Dr. Feelgood was devoted to edgy, Stonesy rock & roll, and their sweaty live shows -- powered by Brilleaux's intense singing and guitarist Wilko Johnson's muscular leads -- became legendary. While the group's stripped-down, energetic sound paved the way for English punk rock in the late '70s, their back-to-basics style was overshadowed by the dominance of punk and new wave, and the group had retreated to cult status by the early '80s. Allmusic
French rock bands pay tribute to Lee Brilleaux (R.I.P), the unforgettable Dr Feelgood singer !!!
SWEENEY TODD 
Canada's Sweeney Todd is the glam-like outfit that gave rise to the peculiar pop skills of electric dreamer Nick Gilder, a towering magical imp, and meat-and-potatoes professional Bryan Adams. Born in London and raised in Vancouver, Gilder joined Rasputin with high school friend and guitarist Jim McCulloch. The band evolved into Sweeney Todd, an obviously theatrical para-pop 10cc-type-unit that quickly ensnared a local following. Producer Martin Shaer caught the act at a high school gymnasium and soon London Records signed and released Sweeney Todd in 1975. Thanks to the delectable groupie-ode "Roxy Roller," written by Gilder and McCulloch, Sweeney Todd quickly ruled the Great White North. Chrysalis Records wooed Gilder and McCulloch to Los Angeles and the duo bolted, leaving Sweeney Todd without a creative impetus.
Clark Perry took over the lead role and the band recorded a different rendering of "Roxy Roller" before Perry was replaced by a 15-year-old Bryan Guy Adams who had pestered Shaer into an audition. Adams sang on yet another "Roxy Roller" and accepted a Juno on behalf of the Gilder version. Sweeney Todd's If Wishes Were Horses features the earliest Bryan Adams' songs, as well as holdovers from Gilder and McCulloch (including the excellent "Tantalize"). "Song for a Star" details Adams' attempts at mimicking the Bolan-like-brainiac Gilder: "Stepping in time with your pace, though we never yet met face to face." Gilder released a fourth rendition of "Roxy Roller" on his solo debut, You Know Who You Are. His second LP, the legendary City Nights, yielded the immortal one-hit-wonder "Hot Child in the City." Meanwhile, Adams fell out of favor with Sweeney Todd after exhaustive touring in support of If Wishes Were Horses, and split to return to high school.
A year later, in 1978, Adams happened upon his soon-to-be songwriting partner, Prism's Jim Vallance, in a music store. The duo penned songs for a plethora of established stars until Adams reached solo superstar status in the mid-'80s. Sweeney Todd labored on with new manager Ron Wright until 1978. Gilder re-formed the band in the late '90s. 
SLAUGHTER & THE DOGS 
Q Magazine recently described the single as, "à raucous amphetamine rush of a terrace chant, comprising equal parts glam and punk." The record won them a deal with Decca, a residency at London’s Mecca of punk, The Roxy, and a part in Don Letts legendary "Punk Rock Movie". Two tracks, "Boston Babies" and "Runaway" were included on the brilliant compilation, "Live at the Roxy". Throughout 1977 the band would release a string of classic singles; "Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone"/ "You’re A Bore", "Dame To Blame"/ "Johnny T" and "Quick Joey Small"/ "Come On Back", the last of which featured Rossi's hero Mick Ronson on guitar. These singles, allied with a burgeoning reputation as a great live band, set the band up perfectly for what is now recognized as one of the great punk albums. "Do It Dog Style" was released on 13th June 1978, along with the bewildering news that the band had in fact split up! The news only served to heighten the mystique surrounding the band, elevating this brilliant debut to a cult status immediately upon release. A four track single, under the title of "The Slaughter and the Dogs EP" kept a public hungry for more material happy for a time, while Rossi, now minus the (as it was to turn out) temporarily departed Barrett, considered his next move.
It appeared that the last had been heard of the band until it was announced on 26th July 1979 that Slaughter and the Dogs had reformed. With original vocalist Wayne Barrett back in the fold, Rossi and Bates retained the services of Phil Rowland from the Studio Sweethearts (Duffy moved on to Southern Death Cult). They re-launched themselves with a hometown gig at Manchester’s The Factory (later issued as the album Live At The Factory). More gigs followed before the release the band’s 8th single "Your Ready Now". Three sold out nights at the Marquee followed, but this sudden surge in popularity was not enough to persuade Wayne Barrett to stay with the band, and he decided in early 1980 to pursue a career allowing him to concentrate on song-writing back in France.
Rossi went on to put together a number of different bands, featuring past members of the Sex Pistols, Gen-X and Chelsea, alongside session and production work with a wide variety of artists including ex-heavy Metal Kids vocalist, Gary Holton. A move to LA via Dublin, saw Rossi settle on the West Coast of the USA, and for a time it seemed future projects under the slaughter & The Dogs banner were at best unlikely. Then in late 1995 English promoter Darren Russell tracked Rossi and Barrett down to invite the band to headline the closing night of the first Holidays In The Sun festival in Blackpool, England. The band reconvened in Stockport at the Greenhouse Rehearsal Studios, only a couple of miles from where they first performed. The success of, and the reaction to, this one show was immense, and the band have been a must see at sell out punk festivals ever since. Alongside these appearances in the UK, the band (with a now settled line-up of Rossi, Barrett, J.P. Thollet on Bass, who work’s on many French rock band’s and the amazing drummer Noel Kay to who thrashes out as one of the most coolest drummer’s in the business ) The successful European and Japanese tours (The Japanese dates selling out weeks in advance), before coming back to Manchester to record a brand new album in the summer of 2001. Along side a blistering headline set to the thousands assembled for the 25th anniversary show in Morecambe, as part of the Holidays festival, the band recorded the excellent "Beware Of" album, before jetting off to San Francisco to play their first ever show in the United States. band of the Weekend was the overwhelming verdict on this sell out show; laying the foundations for a full-blown coast to coast US tour the following February. The sell out shows at San Francisco’s Justice League, and New York’s legendary CBGB’s were recorded for release for a live album .In the meantime, Slaughter & The Dogs fans will be delighted to hear that the band are taking in a European tour from the end of October into May of next year with shows across The U.K. Spain, France, Germany and Poland. The band, who are thrilled to be working on these future tours. 
RUBBER CITY REBELS 
After a move to Los Angeles, the quartet led by singer-guitarist Rod Firestone and guitarist Buzz Clic earned a rep, got signed and made a self-titled album co-produced by Knack leader Doug Fieger for his band's label. With loud instrumental skill and a strong sense of the absurd, Rubber City Rebels is a knockout record that gets the most mileage out of wonderfully snotty punkish originals like "Young and Dumb" and a recut "Child Eaters" (which resembles Killer-era Alice Cooper) and then fills up on a wild selection of covers, including ex-Nerve Jack Lee's catchy and touching "Paper Dolls," Fleetwood Mac's kitschy '50s fakeout "Somebody's Gonna Get (Their Head Kicked in Tonight)" and the Sex Pistols' "No Feelings." This is rock satire that delivers a convincing kick as well as entertaining kicks. Reissued 20 years later, the album gained one more original ("Brainwave") and two more well-chosen retreads — a crafty version of Alice Cooper's superior ode to stardom "Caught in a Dream" and a tired swipe at the Stones' "Surprise, Surprise."