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The Grass Roots also recorded songs written by the group's musicians, which appeared on their albums and the B-sides of many hit singles. As the Grass Roots, they had their first top-10 hit in the summer of 1967 with "Let's Live for Today", an English-language cover version of "Piangi con me", a 1966 hit for the Anglo-Italian quartet The Rokes.
After departing from The Grass Roots in the mid 70s, Entner went behind the scenes of the music business and became a manager. Owning his own firm Warren Entner Management, Entner managed a number of hard rock artists including Angel, Quiet Riot, Faith No More, [4] Rage Against the Machine, Deftones, as well as other acts such as The Grays, Failure and Nada Surf.
The Grass Roots played at Newport Pop Festival 1969 at Devonshire Downs, which was a racetrack at the time but now is part of the North Campus for California State University at Northridge. They played on Sunday, June 22, which was the final day of the festival, as their top twenty hit "Wait A Million Years" was hitting the airwaves.
His professional career started as the lead guitarist for The Grass Roots from 1974 to 1975. He arranged an audition through Dennis Provisor who had experience with the group since 1969. He played lead guitar during the period of The Grass Roots "Mamacita" single (which charted), their self titled album and the US tour in support of it.
Early in his career, Barri was a staff writer with Dunhill Records.He produced such huge hits as "Dizzy" by Tommy Roe.As both songwriter and producer he frequently collaborated with P. F. Sloan, and the partners were responsible for the success of The Grass Roots and contributed largely to the band's first album.
Creed Bratton (The Grass Roots) Chris Broderick (Megadeth, Nevermore, Jag Panzer) Devin Bronson; Joel Bogen ; Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) Ben Bruce (Asking Alexandria) Roy Buchanan; Peter Buck ; Rob Buck (10,000 Maniacs) Buckethead (Praxis, Guns N' Roses, C2B3) Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) Jonny Buckland ; Bumblefoot (Guns N' Roses)
As the Band's chief songwriter, Robertson turned American folklore into modern myths, a knack that gave a timeless quality to songs such as "The Weight." Robbie Robertson, driving force behind ...
Where Were You When I Needed You is the debut studio album by the American pop band the Grass Roots, released in October 1966 by Dunhill Records.Most of the album is performed by the songwriter/producer duo of P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri.