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Chas Chandler (bassist, The Animals] : Alan and I and (manager) Mike Jeffery used to share a flat in Norland Place, just off Bayswater. We used to burn the candle at both ends something ludicrous. But we were young ... we could do it. I got out of bed on this particular morning. I think we had an eleven o'clock flight to Sweden, and I went in and woke Alan up. Then I went and had a shower. When I got upstairs, I asked Mike where Alan was.
Apparently, he'd just walked out. Said he'd be back in a minute, and I never saw him again for six months. I believe the first royalty cheque for House Of Rising Sun had come that morning and he walked off with it.
(Chandler characterised the Kafka-reading introverted master of melodrama, Price as 'the most confused man I've ever met ... a loveable monster.' And Steel said "I don't think we'd have put up with him if we could've found anybody else.")
Eric Burdon (vocalist, The Animals]: Alan Price walked off with the publishing for House Of The Rising Sun which, what does that amount to in terms of finances, I have no idea, but it would have given everybody a sense of success and achievement if the money had been distributed equally amongst the guys in the band.
I don't know for sure, but I think there was a deal done between our intrepid secret agent manager who you know, said to Alan, look, if you keep stone about this, you'll walk away rich and his name was put on the single and we believed the story that there was not enough room on the record to put all the names on as arrangers, and we went along with it. I mean when you step outside of the time that that happened, you say, oh how fucking ridiculous, stupid, you guys must've been insane. But man, even the big man, even big Chas Chandler went for it. We all went for it, because we all believed that we were a group. And then this asshole walks away and leaves us, just before we're about to go on a major tour of Europe. Just walks off the job, I mean unforgivable.
Chas Chandler : Mike's immediate reaction was, 'Got to cancel the Scandinavian tour.' My reaction was anger. I just said, 'No fucking way. We'll go to Scandinavia and you find us a keyboard player.'
'How am I going to find a keyboard player?' he wanted to know.
I told him to go up to Newcastle. 'There's a hundred groups up there, playing everything The Animals have ever recorded. And somewhere up there, there's a young bloke who knows every song we've ever done. So find him!'
John Steel [The Animals] : We flew out and left Mike to find someone else. We told him to get Mickey Gallagher, because we knew him from Newcastle where he played in a band that could do all our stuff. We knew we'd still need somebody long-term but Mickey could easily do it as a stop-gap for the tour. He was great. He flew out, met up with us and went straight on stage and busked it. He was good player, and he was only about fifteen then.
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Apparently, he'd just walked out. Said he'd be back in a minute, and I never saw him again for six months. I believe the first royalty cheque for House Of Rising Sun had come that morning and he walked off with it.
(Chandler characterised the Kafka-reading introverted master of melodrama, Price as 'the most confused man I've ever met ... a loveable monster.' And Steel said "I don't think we'd have put up with him if we could've found anybody else.")
Eric Burdon (vocalist, The Animals]: Alan Price walked off with the publishing for House Of The Rising Sun which, what does that amount to in terms of finances, I have no idea, but it would have given everybody a sense of success and achievement if the money had been distributed equally amongst the guys in the band.
I don't know for sure, but I think there was a deal done between our intrepid secret agent manager who you know, said to Alan, look, if you keep stone about this, you'll walk away rich and his name was put on the single and we believed the story that there was not enough room on the record to put all the names on as arrangers, and we went along with it. I mean when you step outside of the time that that happened, you say, oh how fucking ridiculous, stupid, you guys must've been insane. But man, even the big man, even big Chas Chandler went for it. We all went for it, because we all believed that we were a group. And then this asshole walks away and leaves us, just before we're about to go on a major tour of Europe. Just walks off the job, I mean unforgivable.
Chas Chandler : Mike's immediate reaction was, 'Got to cancel the Scandinavian tour.' My reaction was anger. I just said, 'No fucking way. We'll go to Scandinavia and you find us a keyboard player.'
'How am I going to find a keyboard player?' he wanted to know.
I told him to go up to Newcastle. 'There's a hundred groups up there, playing everything The Animals have ever recorded. And somewhere up there, there's a young bloke who knows every song we've ever done. So find him!'
John Steel [The Animals] : We flew out and left Mike to find someone else. We told him to get Mickey Gallagher, because we knew him from Newcastle where he played in a band that could do all our stuff. We knew we'd still need somebody long-term but Mickey could easily do it as a stop-gap for the tour. He was great. He flew out, met up with us and went straight on stage and busked it. He was good player, and he was only about fifteen then.