http://popdose.disqus.com/Culturally inspired writing.enSun, 21 Jun 2009 09:49:38 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11529219<p>highly entertaining and informative series! I have not necessarily been a fan of the bands Tom produced but I always llistened to them as I like his production style. I am now addicted to his articles! LOL </p>LaurentSun, 21 Jun 2009 09:49:38 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11522475<p>This is a fantastic series. Thanks for writing this, Tom.</p>hagenSun, 21 Jun 2009 00:41:13 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11488496<p>If I remember right(The album is in my storage space so I can't go look right now), the drummer for The Bzzz was Steven Riley, who ended up joining W.A.S.P after that, then L.A. Guns. It's always fun to buy cheap obscure albums at record conventions and discovering unknown bands that had people in it who went on to bigger things. </p>Tom StewartFri, 19 Jun 2009 20:15:13 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11488051<p>I was a big fan of Stranger and saw them a few times growing up in Orlando. Yeah, they were a "bar band" and didn't have hit potential, but "Swamp Woman" and "Wrong Side of the Tracks" (I thought) were in the same league as the stuff Hatchet or The Outlaws were doing around the time. Thanks for the memories!...</p>Jeff BFri, 19 Jun 2009 19:56:55 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11477634<p>Wow, I always wondered what Happened to the BOYZZ. I have a Cleveland International Records comp that has Too Wild to tame on it. I need to go hunting for the BZZ now! </p>jamesballengerFri, 19 Jun 2009 14:50:21 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11450838<p>Hilariously, the words "mercurial" and "Krasnow" are never far apart!</p>billy budapestFri, 19 Jun 2009 11:07:58 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11138402<p>The Bzz were the remnants of The Boyzz (from Illinoise). Decent band, but radio was never ready for hard rock with brass.</p><p>George Thorogood couldn't have lasted too long at Elektra, all his records were on Rounder and then EMI. </p>RussThu, 18 Jun 2009 20:05:47 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11107309<p>Just got off the phone with Dee, and I now get why my initial question was met with stone silence. I guess you two weren't the best of mates, eh? :)</p>DavidMedskerThu, 18 Jun 2009 13:42:08 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11107021<p>Very impressed by Werman's powerfully clear style and his total recall of an era whose main features were fire brained egomania and drug induced dementia.<br>JW<br>Berkeley</p>john weilThu, 18 Jun 2009 13:34:58 -0000http://popdose.com/the-producers-rebuilding-elektra-missing-whitney-and-the-crue/#comment-11094670<p>Tom, I don't want to potentially spoil an upcoming installment, but I'm talking to Dee Snider this afternoon. Do you have any in-joke questions I can throw at him? I'm definitely asking him about working with you. </p>DavidMedskerThu, 18 Jun 2009 09:27:56 -0000