Year : 2007 (Perris Records Edition)
Style : Melodic Sleaze Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 117 mb
Bio:
Funny Money is an American rock band formed in 1996.They played at multiple venues in the Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania area. They played a mix of Kix covers as well as original material.Funny Money was founded in 1996 in Maryland by lead vocalist Steve Whiteman of Piedmont, WV and guitarist Billy Andrews, who met at a charity gig in Baltimore.Their initial sessions consisted of Kix material and material written by Whiteman with Shea Quinn of the Sharks. Whiteman and Andrews recruited guitarist Dean Cramer, one of Whiteman's vocal students, bassist Ned Meloni, who had played with New York's Ice Water Mansion, and Washington, D.C.'s Monarch in the 1980s and had extensive studio experience, and drummer Bobby George. George left the band shortly afterward, and Geoff Burrell of Tubefreeks and Swingin' Dix was recruited in his place.After attempting to make a name for themselves with new material, the band began incorporating Kix material into their shows, in response to fan demands. In 1998, Funny Money released their self-titled debut album, Funny Money, produced and engineered by Andrews.It was followed in 1999 with Back Again, recorded, produced, and engineered at Andrews' home, and a live album, Even Better Live, recorded at Jaxx Nightclub in Springfield, Virginia in 2001. However, in 2003, Andrews, Meloni, and Burrell all announced that they were leaving to pursue other interests. Whiteman and Cramer recruited guitarist Louis Coppola, former Centerfold bassist Mark Schenker on Meloni's recommendations, and drummer Sam Stillwell.In 2003, while Funny Money were working on their fourth release, Skin to Skin, Coppola and Stillwell were replaced by former Centerfold guitarist Rob Galpin and Kix drummer Jimmy Chalfant respectively. Skin to Skin went on to become the band's best-selling album. In 2006, Cramer left the band to work with Sebastian Bach of Skid Row fame, followed by working on/recording material with Marc Ferreira and their new band Goodbye Thrill. Their fifth record, Stick It!, was released in December 2006, mixed by Kix's ex-producer Beau Hill. Dean Cramer returned in November 2008. The song "Play Me Like a Rhythm" from the 2006 album "Stick It" is featured in the 2013 movie "The Frozen Ground".
Album:
What do you get when you take 2/5ths of Kix and reunite them with Midnite Dynamite producer Beau Hill? You get a Funny Money CD that sounds more like Kix then any of their previous releases, and that is a good thing! I’m not implying that previous Funny Money albums were lackluster, just that Stick It! is their best release yet. You know exactly what you are getting with this band, fun no-frills hard rock. I can’t even remember the last time an album with Steve Whiteman has let me down, in fact, maybe it has never happened. As a teenager I used to drink and party to those old Kix cassettes, and today Stick It! creates the same urges and feelings. “By The Balls” and “Play Me Like A Rhythm” are the two stand out tracks and rival anything Whiteman‘s previous band put out. Of course the album doesn’t end with those two songs, “Hot On Your Heels”, “Big Bang Boom”, “Weeds And Roses” and “About Women” all display the same brand of go-for-the-throat rock ‘n’ roll. Only once does the band ease up, and that is for the “Thousand Thank Yous” ballad, the only song on the CD that I could live without. If you close your eyes and listen to this CD you would swear that you are enjoying a long lost Kix album, and that is a great feeling. It looks like all it took to kick Funny Money from great to extraordinary was the return of a couple names from the past. It’s a good thing I didn’t receive this release until a few days ago, or my end of the year list would have been even harder to compile!
Line-Up:
Steve Whiteman - lead vocals - see also: Kix
Rob Galpin - guitar
Mark Schenker - bass
Jimmy Chalfant - drums
Production:
Produced and engineered by Mark Schenker
Mixed by Beau Hill
Tracklist:
01. By The Balls
02. Hot On Your Heels
03. Crush
04. Big Bang Boom
05. All Tied Up
06. Fool's Confession
07. Slow To Blow
08. Nowhere At All
09. Play Me Like A Rhythm
10. Thousand Thank Yous
11. Weeds And Roses
12. About Women
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