GUITAR WOLF...Dick Wagner
Although Wagner enjoyed some fame in his native Detroit with the band The Frost, there are three projects to which we associate Dick Wagner's career. The first of them - and with which he burst the speakers of the record players of half the world and managed to become a musician of reference - involved his union with the authentic ‘dark God of rock’ Lou Reed. Shortly after recording the mythical Berlin with the former Velvet Underground singer, and already as musical director of his tours, he re-oriented the career of his 'boss' to the most powerful rock ever made by the New Yorker with the wild Rock and Roll Animal.
Around that time one of his key musical relationships began and one which Dick will always be remembered for: with Alice Cooper. Apart from keeping his status as musical director on hundreds of concerts that lasted years, it is also his most important musical union because Alice Cooper found in him a splendid songwriter who ‘cast his spell’ on some of his greatest hits such as 'Only women bleed'.
Thirdly we're going to talk about the quantity and quality of his contributions for other huge bands of that time. Perhaps the most important was Kiss, a band whose members were not too technical and who of course did not hesitate to hire experienced guitarists like Wagner for the recording of albums, like the one that once became the most successful of their career to that point: Destroyer of 1976.
ALICE COOPER
Zipper Catches Skin
WB,1982
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