Rock N Roll Animals - Episode 7 - Influences

Rock-n-Roll Animals was intended to be a feature-length documentary about guitarists Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. Hunter and Wagner, most well-known for their extraordinary twin-guitar work on Lou Reed's Rock-n-Roll Animal and Alice Cooper's Welcome to My Nightmare, developed a playing style that saw the songs' lead and rhythm parts divided equally between them and that influenced a wide variety of legendary bands from Aerosmith and Thin Lizzy to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Iron Maiden.

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Film & Animation

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• Alice Cooper
• Iron Maiden
• Thin Lizzy
• Aerosmith
• Lou Reed
• Dick Wagner
• Steve Hunter

[DogCatchersBand]

I corresponded with Steve Hunter for a spell a couple years ago, and some of his other influences (according to Steve) were: Jeff Beck, David Gilmour,Billy Gibbons, and of course his friend and teacher Ted Greene. Steve is a cool dude, nice person.

[ZombiedustXXX]

Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter were so good as a team, Lou Reed got his underwear in a bind when he found he could not compete with these "hired guns"!

[MajorSecord]

The version of "Eighteen" that plays at the beginning of all these video clips is a testimony to why Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner are held in such high esteem. Listen to the whole song ( from "The Alice Cooper Show" album ) and focus on the guitar solos and the twin leads at the finale and you will understand......no one phrases like these guys--they are unique and original.

[SicksStringz]

When I was 12 I bought "The Alice Cooper Show" about a month after it was released because I liked the album cover. My life changed after I actually listened to the album. I still listen to it almost daily.