Dick Wagner

Unbeknownst to fans, for years the blazing guitar solos on Train Kept A-Rollin' were not played by Joe Perry or Brad Whitford.

Producer Jack Douglas secretly brought in session aces Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner- To cut the fiery leads in one night.

No shit.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I mean, yeah, it's just like, you know, the, it's amazing now.

And one has Dick Wagner in it.

Yeah.

Yeah, Dick Wagner, who co-wrote the-

'Cause Dick, Dick worked on their second single.

Yeah, uh, yeah, man, the, the more ballady one.

That, that's a great song, so.

Yeah.

He can't remember shit from this time.

His longtime guitarist, Dick Wagner, will leave in the middle of recording the Zipper record.

He calls the creation of it a, quote, drug-induced

nightmare.

And, uh, Chester Rose: The Legend Begins.

Now, songwriting contributions are from Alice Cooper, the late Dick Wagner, Steve Hunter, and Tommy Henriksen.

So this is something that back when Dick Wagner was still alive, he and Alice worked on this concept album of a serial killer.

Okay, that's not what I thought.

Wow, okay.

Oh, wow.

So he's adopted a woman's name.

He's doing shock rock, and here he is, you know, gonna be doing this whole album written by Alice Cooper and Dick Wagner.

Okay, so on several Kiss records, for example, on the Destroy record, there is a song where Ace Frehley does not play.

So they had to bring in a studio musician named Dick Wagner.

Bob Ezrin is the producer.

He brings in Dick Wagner from the Alice Cooper band to play on this.

Fitting name for Kiss.

Yeah.

And I recently learned that on many records that Bob Ezrin produced, he specifically brought in Dick Wagner's wrote wasn't specific to kiss.

That's a very minor fact.

He was incapable of touring on either Zipper Catcher's skin or Dada.

In fact, Dada was the final album of his Warner Brothers contract, and privately, if not publicly, believing it would be his last, he brought back Bob Ezrin to produce and Dick Wagner to play and write the album.

Following the recording of the album, and under the threat of divorce by his wife Cheryl, Alice returned to hospital for his alcoholism and for cirrhosis of the liver.

Though divorce proceedings were commenced by Cheryl, she decided against following through with them.

Well, he surrounded himself with some stellar musical talent.

The co-producers of Fearless were Michael Kamen and Dick Wagner.

Kamen had directed the Fortunes of the New York Rock Ensemble, fantastic group, had also worked as David Bowie's musical director.

And Dick Wagner had made a name as one of rock's premier session guitarists with his work through Alice Cooper.

And together, they gave a lot of credence to Curry's excursion into rock music.

The three of them met during the recording of Tim Curry's debut release called Read My Lips.

Wow.

Before I forget, I wanted to ask you when you were talking about performing with different artists and when we were in the Hall of Fame, you mentioned Dick Wagner.

Did you happen to play with Dick Wagner in the Remember the Child performance? Oh,

I just told you that to make you happy.

Oh.