BLACK N' BLUE Frontman Jaime St. James On EZO's 1987 Debut - "GENE SIMMONS Asked Me To Write Some Lyrics; He's Got Me Committed, Then He Lets Me In On The Other Part..."

June 9, 2011, 13 years ago

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During a recent interview about the new BLACK N' BLUE album Hell Yeah, frontman Jaime St. James commented on the writing credits he received on the North American self-titled debut of Japanese basgers EZO in 1987. An excerpt is available below:

“Gene Simmons produced that album, and it’s funny because he called me up and said ‘Jaime, I need you to come over, I need some lyrics, can you write some for me?’ I told him sure, no problem, so I met him at Shannon Tweed’s house, and then he let me in on the other part: ‘By the way, they don’t speak English.’ I had to stand in the studio and tell EZO’s singer (Masaki Yamada) how to sing all my stuff. The poor guy’s standing there, he doesn’t know what to do or how to sing my lyrics, and I’m thinking ‘Oh my God…’ (laughs). But, I helped him out and we got through it.”

Click here for the full story. Check out 'House Of 1,000 Pleasures' by EZO, lyrics penned by St. James, below.

Black N’ Blue’s new album, Hell Yeah!, was released May 13thvia Frontier Records. The tracklisting is as follows:

'Monkey'

'Target'

'Hail Hail'

'Fool's Bleed'

'C'mon'

'Jaime's Got The Beer'

'Angry Drunk Son Of A Bitch'

'So Long; Trippin''

'Falling Down'

'Candy'

'Hell Yeah!'

'World Goes Round'


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