Mp3 music: Wicked Lester

Artist: Wicked Lester: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Other     Wicked Lester's discography:      The Original Wicked Lester Session    Year: 1972    Tracks: 9 Although the band Wicked Lester never issued an official recording during their brief tenure together, the grouping would serve as a stepping stone for both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, both of whom later went on to discrepancy 1 of the '70s biggest punishing rock outfits, Kiss. Simmons and Stanley met in the late '60s through a mutual friend, Steve Coronel, barely it wasn't until Wicked Lester was formed in the early '70s that they reached whatever arcdegree of success. In add-on to Simmons (bass and vocals) and Stanley (guitar and vocals), the group likewise in the first place featured Coronel (cut guitar), Tony Zarella (drums), and Brooke Ostrander (keyboards), as the quint received a transcription contract from Columbia afterwards only playing a handful of gigs in the New York area. Only the take came with one stipulation, that Coronel be replaced with a more complete participant. The request was granted (regular though Simmons and Coronel had been longtime friends), as some other guitar player, Ron Leejack, signed on. The newly instated lineup recorded an album's charles Frederick Worth of tracks at Jimi Hendrix's illustrious Electric Lady Studios in 1971, just the songs were the nail opposite of the orbit anthem/heavy metallic element that Kiss would after specialise in -- Wicked Lester was more a family to the chart-topping soft john Rock of the day (Rod Stewart, etc.), as their sound was an dental amalgam of several styles, something that Simmons and Stanley didn't feel very comfy with. Not glad with how the record album came out or the band's musical focus, the founding duet promptly announced their divergence from Wicked Lester, and the accomplished record album was shelved. When Simmons and Stanley hit the magnanimous time with Kiss in the mid to late '70s, the unreleased Wicked Lester album gained major interest group among Kiss fans -- particularly later on a pair off of Wicked Lester songs, "She" and "Love Her All I Can," were re-cut by Kiss themselves for their 1975 Dressed to Kill album (some other early Kiss song, "Goin' Blind," was credited to both Simmons and Coronel, just appears to have been written either earlier or after Wicked Lester). The unreleased Wicked Lester album (and its art) was bought by Kiss' label, Casablanca, in 1977 so that Columbia wouldn't hard cash in on Kiss' success by releasing the aborted track record (which besides included pictures of Simmons and Stanley without make-up), only bootleg copies of the record album finally began making the rounds in fan circles. 2001 saw the appearance of the number 1 officially released Wicked Lester tracks ("Observe Me Waiting," as well as the said "She" and "Sexual love Her All I Can") on Kiss' self-titled, five-disc box mark.