Genre: rock
Rating: *** ( 3 stars)
Title: Here Comes Everyone
Company: Cab
Catalog: 101
Year: 1974
Country/State: Oklahoma
Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+
Comments: minor ring, edge and corner wear
Available: 1
GEMM Catalog ID: not listed yet
Price: $85.00
Given there are literally thousands of bar bands working the circuit at any specific point in time, it's only natural that some of these outfits manage to record a couple of independent singles, or even an oddball vanity (self-financed) album. That certainly seems to be the case with the Oklahoma-based Here Comes Everybody.
As with so many of these outfits, we can't tell you a great deal about the band - virtually everything we do know comes from the liner notes on their album. So what can we tell you? Band personnel consisted of drummer Chris A. Burns, bassist Hank Hawley, guitarists Jim Jackson and Geff Jung, and singer/keyboardist Vernon James Schubel. We also know their 1974 debut
"Here Comes Everybody" was recorded in Stillwater, Oklahoma. With Schubel responsible for the majority of the material (Jackson contributed one selection), the results were fairly predictable. Material such as "My Own Controls", "You Been Abusin' Me" and "Make a Buck" was competent, but largely anonymous guitar rock. Slightly more interesting (and definitely stranger), was the flip side, side-long suite "Opera: Johnny Got His Ray Gun". Imagine a group of mid-western good old boys who happened to have a David Bowie 8 track in their pickup truck and you'll get a feel for the overall results.
"Here Comes Everybody" track listing:
(side 1)
1.) My Own Controls (Vernon James Schubel) - 2:43
2.) Roy Roberts Intro (Vernon James Schubel) - 0:33
3.) Young Roy Roberts (Boy Rock Star) (Vernon James Schubel) - 2:15
4.) You Been Abusin' Me (Vernon James Schubel) - 2:25
5.) Yeah, Yeah, Yeah (Vernon James Schubel) - 5:30
6.) Make a Buck (Vernon James Schubel) - 3:00
(side 2)
1.) Opera: Johnny Got His Ray Gun (Vernon James Schubel) - 18:18
a.) Cosmic Ball Park Intro (Vernon James Schubel)
b.) Overture (Jim Jackson) -
c.) Gotta Get a Ray Gun (Vernon James Schubel)
d.) The Inter-Galatic Instrument (Vernon James Schubel)
e.) The Maiming (Vernon James Schubel)
f.) The Descent (Vernon James Schubel)
g.) The Resurrection (Vernon James Schubel)
h.) Finally Got a Ray Gun (Vernon James Schubel)