Spooky Tooth - Better by You, Better than Me ( S1 )

 

"Better by You, Better than Me" is a 1969 song by the English rock band Spooky Tooth. The song appeared on the album Spooky Two and was composed by keyboardist Gary Wright.

In 1990, a 1978 cover version by heavy metal band Judas Priest was the subject of a much-publicized "subliminal message trial". The lawsuit alleged that the band's recording contained hidden messages which were responsible for influencing a pair of young men in Sparks, Nevada, to make a suicide pact in 1985. The case was eventually dismissed.

Personnel

• Luther Grosvenor – guitar
• Mike Harrison – keyboards, vocals
• Mike Kellie – drums
• Greg Ridley – bass, guitar
• Gary Wright – keyboards, vocals

"Better by You, Better than Me"
Song by Spooky Tooth
from the album Spooky Two
Released	March 1969
Studio	Morgan Studios, London
Genre	Hard rock, progressive rock
Length	3:36
Label	Island (UK) A&M (US)
Songwriter(s)	Gary Wright
Producer(s)	Jimmy Miller

Spooky Tooth - As Long As The World Keeps Turning ( L2 )

You said I've been waiting outside your door
Biding my time hoping soon I might be recognized
Sometimes you leave without even a glance
Pa**ing me by like I don't set a chance
Only a smile would make all of my waiting worthwhile

Chorus:
For as long as the world keeps turning
My fire will keep on burning
For your love
For your love

Maybe I'm searching for what I can find
Maybe your difference and what's in my mind
Oh, but nevertheless a feeling just can't be denied

Chorus

I can't sleep at night
No, I can't eat a bite
I can't run
I can't hide
Without you I might die

Spooky Tooth - All Sewn Up ( L1 )

We got it all sewn up
Takin' it easy
We got it all worked out
Don't have to please me
We got it all sewn up

Take my hand, lead me
Feed my heart with your love
Take my mind, believe me
Nothin' you could ever do could deceive me

Don't you know we got it all sewn up
Takin' it easy
We got it all worked out
Don't have to please me
We got it all sewn up

Right or wrong, we're together
It feels like it's workin' out long
We can go on forever
Every day is feeling so much better

Don't you know we got it all sewn up
Takin' it easy
We got it all worked out
Don't have to please me
We got it all sewn up

We don't depend on nuthin' to get by
What we do we see eye to eye
We live for the day our love we survive
And I'm gonna to both till the day that we die

We got it all sewn up
Takin' it easy
We got it all worked out
Don't have to please me

We got it all sewn up
Takin' it easy
We got it all worked out
Don't have to please me

We got it all sewn up
Takin' it easy
We got it all worked out
Don't have to please me

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Discography

Studio albums

• 1968: It's All About (re-issued in 1971 as Tobacco Road, with the song "The Weight" replacing "Too Much Of Nothing")
• 1969: Spooky Two
• 1969: Ceremony (with Pierre Henry)
• 1970: The Last Puff (credited as Spooky Tooth featuring Mike Harrison)
• 1973: You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw
• 1973: Witness
• 1974: The Mirror
• 1999: Cross Purpose

Compilations and live albums

• 1975: The Best of Spooky Tooth (produced by Island Records ILPS9368-A, imported by Jem Records)
• 1999: The Best of Spooky Tooth: That Was Only Yesterday
• 2000: Comic Violence
• 2001: BBC Sessions
• 2007: Nomad Poets (DVD)
• 2009: Lost in My Dream – An Anthology 1968–1974

Singles

• 1969: "Feelin' Bad" (US Bubbling Under #132)

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Media depictions

The band was featured in the 1970 documentary Groupies.

Personnel

Members

Luther Grosvenor - guitar (1967–70, 1998–99) Mike Harrison - vocals, keyboards (1967–70, 1972–74, 1998–99, 2004, 2008–09) Mike Kellie - drums (1967–70, 1973–74, 1998–99, 2004, 2008–09) Greg Ridley - bass (1967–69, 1998–99) Gary Wright - keyboards, vocals (1967–70, 1972–74, 2004, 2008-09) Andy Leigh - bass (1969–70) Henry McCullough - guitar (1970) Alan Spenner - bass (1970) Chris Stainton - keyboards, guitar, bass (1970) John Hawken - keyboards (1970) Steve Thompson - bass (1970) Bryson Graham - drums (1972–73, 1974) Ian Herbert - bass (1972–73) Mick Jones - guitar (1972–74) Chris Stewart - bass (1973–74) Val Burke - bass, vocals (1974) Mike Patto - vocals, keyboards (1974) Joey Albrecht - guitar (2004) Michael Becker - bass (2004) Steve Farris - guitar (2008–09) Shem von Schroeck - bass (2008–09) Tom Brechtlein - drums (2009) continuare

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After Spooky Tooth

Grosvenor later played with Stealers Wheel and joined Mott the Hoople in the 1970s (replacing Mick Ralphs who left to form Bad Company), adopting the name Ariel Bender. In 2005, he founded The Ariel Bender Band, with which he still occasionally performs.

Kellie later joined The Only Ones in the late 1970s also performing with them in 1980's. The band reformed in 2007.

Ridley became a member of Humble Pie. He died in 2003.

Wright began to develop an international solo career in the 1970s and had a hit with the radio-friendly "Dream Weaver".

Harrison played and recorded with The Hamburg Blues Band and appeared on their CD Touch (2002).

Harrison, Grosvenor, Ridley and Kellie reunited at points in 1997 and 1998, which resulted in an album, Cross Purpose, released in 1999.

In 2004, Harrison, Wright and Kellie were re-united as Spooky Tooth for two concerts in Germany, resulting in a DVD Nomad Poets(2007).

In 2006, Harrison released his first solo album in over thirty years, Late Starter.

In February 2008, the latest incarnation of Spooky Tooth, featuring Harrison, Wright and Kellie along with guitarist Steve Farris from Mr. Mister and Shem von Schroeck (bass), played a series of European dates. On 29 May 2009, this same lineup (with drummer Tom Brechtlein replacing Kellie) played at Island Records' 50th Anniversary at Shepherd's Bush Empire, before touring Germany.

In 2012, Mike Kellie started work on a solo album.

Mike Kellie died on 18 January 2017 after a short illness, and Mike Harrison died on 25 March 2018.

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Spooky Tooth was an English rock band principally active between 1967 and 1974. In recent years, the band had been re-formed on several occasions and released the album Cross Purpose (1999) and the DVD Nomad Poets (2007).

History

Prior to Spooky Tooth, four of the band's five founding members had performed in the band Art (formerly known as The V.I.P.s). Following the dissolution of Art, the members' of that band's final line-up (guitarist Luke Grosvenor, vocalist Mike Harrison, drummer Mike Kellie, and bassist Greg Ridley) joined forces with American keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright in October 1967 and formed Spooky Tooth. Wright was introduced to the members of Art by Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records.

The album Spooky Two (1969) was the last album release by the original lineup. It included the song "Better by You, Better than Me", which was covered by Judas Priest on their release Stained Class (1978).

Ridley joined Humble Pie in 1969 and was replaced by Andy Leigh for the album Ceremony (1969). The experimental nature of Ceremony received mixed reviews and following its release Wright left the band. Harrison, Grosvenor and Kellie remained and recorded the album The Last Puff, with members of Joe Cocker's Grease Band.

In the autumn of 1970 the band embarked on a European tour that was undertaken with line-up of Harrison, Grosvenor, Kellie, keyboardist John Hawken (ex-Nashville Teens) and bassist Steve Thompson. Harrison and Wright reformed Spooky Tooth in September 1972 with a different line-up. The best known member of these line-ups was guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones. Mike Patto replaced Harrison when they recorded The Mirror (1974). They disbanded in November 1974.

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