Artist: JON LORD & THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN
Album: DANGER: WHITE MEN DANCING LTD. EDT. (BOX CD+DVD)

Year: 2007
Media type: CD

The story so far... When Bob Daisley returned to live in Sydney, Australia in 1997, he soon re-established a connection with Tim Gaze. They'd been in Kahvas Jute together in 1970 and Bob had always rated Tim as a very good guitarist and kept in touch over the many years. Tim had a blues band called The Blues Doctors at the time and invited Bob to do some gigs with them.

Bob picks up the story from here...

I've always been a fan of the blues. I agree with the great Willie Dixon when he said "Blues is the roots, everything else is the shoots". Soon after the first few gigs that we did, Tim asked me to join as a permanent member, which I agreed to do. At that time the line-up was Tim on lead vocals and guitar, Rob Grosser on drums, Jim Conway on harmonica and yours truly on bass. I suggested that we start afresh with a new name and suggested The Hoochie Coochie Men, after the Willie Dixon penned song "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man", an old blues standard.

In 2000 we recorded our first album "The Hoochie Coochie Men" with the above line-up. We did various gigs, clubs, restaurants etc. but had a pretty non-eventful year during 2002, until in January, 2003 I got a phone call from Drew Thompson who working with Jon Lord on his tour in Australia.

His first question was, "do you know Jon Lord"? I told him that I did and asked him why. He told me that Jon was in Sydney to play at the Opera House and that he wanted to do some other shows as well. As it happened, Jon was staying just down the road from where I live so I phoned Jon, arranged a dinner and chat and gave him a copy of The Hoochies' album, after which Jon and I discussed doing some shows with The Hoochies. Now at that stage, we, THCM, hadn't played together for about a year so we got together and rehearsed in preparation for some shows with Jon as "The Hoochie Coochie Men featuring Jon Lord". We did one show in Melbourne where, at the sound-check, we did our first and only rehearsal with Jon - but that night all went well.

The next day we flew up to Sydney to play at The Basement that night. We did a sound-check in the afternoon and then headed over to the ABC television studios to play a couple of songs live on the show "The Fat", then straight back to The Basement to be filmed doing our two one-hour sets there, the result being the live DVD and CD "Jon Lord with The Hoochie Coochie Men Live at The Basement".

That night at The Basement, Jimmy Barnes, a friend of us all, got up and sang a couple of songs with us, "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" being one of them. We did one more show at Coolum in Queensland where Jimmy attended and got up with us once more and fun was had by all, we had a ball (or two).

The DVD and CD were both received well so I spoke to everyone about doing a studio album, which all were keen to do. Tim, Rob and I got together whenever possible during the end of 2005 and throughout 2006 to write, arrange and record at Rob's studio Disgracelands with Rob as engineer.

When the recorded songs were in good enough shape I took them over to London to record Jon's keyboard parts at Olympic Studios in Barnes, with first-class engineer Darren Schneider from the U.S. Later in 2006 we had the pleasure of including three other guest vocalists on the record, Jimmy Barnes sang on two tracks as did Ian Gillan and Jeff Duff.

As producer, I am more than happy with the end result, a blues album that packs hard-rock punch with well thought out arrangements and Tim singing and playing better than ever. The mix was done by Steve Scanlon in Melbourne, a fine job he did I must say. There'll be a few sore bums around with this kick-arse rhythm section too! Everybody played and sang great, well done evryone! By the way, it's entitled "Danger: White Men Dancing."

I hope you all enjoy our new record when it's released this year.

All the best, kind regards, Bob Daisley.


TRACKLIST CD:

1. The Blues Just Got Sadder 3:33
2. Gotta Find Me Some Fire 3:57
3. Twisted System 4:14
4. Over & Over 8:07
5. Let It Go 4:16
6. Heart Of Stone 3:50
7. If This Aint The Blues 6:29
8. Danger White Men Dancing 4:33
9. Dead Presidents 2:45
10. Hoochie Cookie Man 4:35
11. Bottle O' Wine 4:58
12. Everybody Wants To Heaven 4:24
13. Tell Your Story Walkin' 4:41

TRACKLIST DVD:

1. Who's Been Talkin (Live)
2. When A Blindman Cries (Live )
3. 24/7 Blues (Live)
4. Documentary

LINE-UP:

BOB DAISLEY
Bass Guitar, Acoustic Bass, Backing Vocals, Harmonica
TIM GAZE
Guitars, Vocals
ROB GROSSER
Drums and Percussion
JON LORD
Hammond Organ and Piano

Guest vocals:
Ian Gillan performs on Tracks 4 & 7
Jeff Duff performs on Tracks 3 & 11
Jimmy Barnes performs on Tracks 6 & 10
(All other lead vocals by Tim Gaze)

Production Credits:
Produced by Bob Daisley
Engineered by Rob Grosser
EDITED BY ROB GROSSER WITH BOB DAISLEY
Executive Producer : Drew Thompson

Mixed by Steve Scanlon ( stevescanlon.net ) Jon Lord's Keyboard parts engineered by Darren Schneider at Olympic studios London Ian Gillan's vocals recorded by Steve Scanlon
Recorded at Disgracelands Studios Sydney