Eater were an early British punk band from London who took their name from a Marc Bolan lyric. In 2001, the band’s second single, "Thinking of the USA" (originally released in June 1977), was included in a leading British music magazine’s list of the best punk-rock singles of all-time.^[1] In 1999, the track also re-appeared on the five CD box set ‘1-2-3-4: A History of Punk & New Wave’ (MCA Records / Universal Music Group).

Biography[link]

The band was formed in 1976 by four high school friends; Anglo-Egyptian singer and guitarist Andy Blade (real name: Ashruf Radwan),^[2] Brian Chevette (real name: Brian Haddock) (guitar), Roger “Dee Generate” Bullen (drums) and Ian Woodcock (bass). The band's name came from the song ‘Suneye’, taken from the 1970 album T. Rex:

“Tree wizard puretongue, The digger of holes, The swan king, The Elf lord, The eater of souls.

Lithon the black, The rider of stars, Tyrannosaurus Rex, The eater of cars”.

Later they recorded a cover version of T-Rex's "Jeepster."

Despite originating in north London, the band made its first public performance in Manchester, featuring The Buzzcocks as their support act. Eater’s live set at this gig, back in November 1976, was built mainly around speeded-up versions of Velvet Underground and David Bowie songs such as "Queen Bitch" and "Sweet Jane".

Closer to home, the band became one of the pioneering punk bands that played live in the first few months of the now-legendary Roxy Club. They topped the bill twice in January 1977, the second time they were supported by The Damned. They headlined again in February, this time supported by Johnny Moped, and twice more in March, supported first by The Lurkers and then by Sham 69.^[3] They also supplied two of their tracks, ‘15’ (a version of "I'm Eighteen" by Alice Cooper) and ‘Don’t Need It’, to the seminal live various artists album Live at the Roxy WC2. Extracts from their performances at The Roxy were also included in Don Letts' Punk Rock Movie (1978).

The band signed to small London independent label called ‘The Label’,

Eater released five singles and The Album LP before splitting up in 1979.

Blade made several attempts to create a solo career during the 1980s but failed to secure a deal. He shared an apartment with Billy Duffy who later joined The Cult.

Blade published a book about his times with Eater and beyond, called The Secret Life of a Teenage Punk Rocker in 2005.

Eater reformed to play the 1996 Holidays in The Sun Festival in Blackpool.

Eater also reformed shortly in 2006, playing a one-off gig at the 100 Club, supported by TV Smith of The Adverts. They also supported the Buzzcocks on their 30th anniversary of their original tour, at the Forum.

Reviews[link]

In their heyday 1976–1978, the band had been variously appraised:

• “Run-of-the-mill dole queue punk rock”.^[4]

• “Basic boy-ish punk rock”.^[5]

• “The band’s original punkish abrasiveness giving way only slightly to a petulant pop sheen”.^[6]

• “They were basically young kids, striving to master their instruments and out to shock”.^[7]

• “All songs on their sole full-length release sound about the same, played with one stiff light-speed beat and a snotty vehemence to each track, adding up to a ridiculous classic. As fast and clumsy as the material is, there's an undeniable tunefulness at work, particularly in irresistible singalongs like "No Brains" and "Room for One," and the sprightly single "Lock It Up" even attempts some naïve vocal harmonies as they sneer at the upper classes”.^[8]

Discography[link]

Studio album[link]

• The Album (November 1977: The Label, LP 001)

Compilations[link]

• The History of Eater (February 1985)
• The Compleat Eater (April 1993)
• All of Eater (May 1998)

Appearances on various artist compilations (Selective)[link]

Listing of those various artist compilation albums mentioned in the text of the main article:

• "15" and "Don’t Need It" featured on the Live at the Roxy WC2 compilation LP (24 Jun '77: Harvest Records SHSP4069) #24 UK Albums Chart^[9]
• "Thinking of the USA" featured on 1-2-3-4: A History of Punk And New Wave 1976 - 1979 (MCA/Universal, 1999)

Singles[link]

• Outside View / You (March 1977: The Label, TRL 001)
• Thinkin’ of the USA / Space Dreamin’ / Michael’s Monetary System (June 1977: The Label, TLR 003)
• Lock It Up / Jeepster (October 1977: The Label, TRL 004) Also released as a 12 inch single (TRL 004/12)
• Get Your Yo-Yo’s Out E.P.: Debutantes Ball / No More / Thinkin’ of the USA / Holland (September 1978: The Label, TRL 007)
• What She Wants She Needs / Reaching for the Sky (November 1978: The Label, TRL 009)

See also[link]

• List of British punk bands
• List of musicians in the first wave of punk music

References[link]

External links[link]

• Eater at Allmusic
• Eater on www.punk77.co.uk
• Eater on Punkmodpop

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Shelby F. "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was a character actor and singer, best known for his 1958 novelty song "The Purple People Eater".^[1] He played Ben Miller, brother of Frank Miller in the film High Noon, played Travis Cobb in The Outlaw Josey Wales, and also had a co-starring role as scout Pete Nolan in the television program Rawhide.

Biography[link]

Wooley was born in Erick, Oklahoma, and was raised on a farm. He learned to ride horses at an early age, and was a working cowboy and rodeo rider. He also played in a country-western band. Wooley tried to enlist during World War II, but was turned down for military service because of his rodeo injuries. Instead, he worked in the oil industry and as a welder. In 1946, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and became a country and western musician. He moved to Hollywood in 1949.

Wooley appeared in dozens of western films from the 1950s through 1970s, most notably High Noon. In 1954, he played outlaw Jim Younger in the syndicated western series Stories of the Century. Wooley appeared five times as Carl in the syndicated western series The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1955). He appeared in The Cisco Kid in the role of Bill Bronson. Wooley guest starred as Harry Runyon in the episode "The Unmasking" of the CBS western My Friend Flicka. In 1958 he played Baxter in the movie Terror in a Texas Town.

Wooley co-starred as Pete Nolan in the CBS western Rawhide (1959–1966) with Eric Fleming, Clint Eastwood, and Paul Brinegar. He also acted in the films The Outlaw Josey Wales and Giant. Wooley also co-starred along with Gene Hackman in the movie Hoosiers. He played Cletus,the principal.

In the 1940s Wooley took an interest in his wife's young cousin, Roger Miller (who also grew up in Erick, Oklahoma), teaching him to play guitar chords, and purchasing him a fiddle.

In the late 1950s, Wooley embarked on a recording career, with the song that made him famous, the "Purple People Eater". He followed this with a series of lesser novelty hits. Wooley wrote the theme song for the long-running television show Hee Haw.

Wooley also had a string of country hits, his "That's My Pa" reaching No. 1 of Billboard magazine's Hot C&W Sides chart in March 1962. He was a regular on Hee Haw and The Muppet Show as the drunken country songwriter Ben Colder. He released music and performed as Ben Colder. Wooley also performed using his own name as well. Wooley had intended to record the song "Don't Go Near The Indians", but he was delayed by an acting job. Meanwhile, Rex Allen recorded the song and it was a hit. Wooley said he did not mind - he would do the sequel. His version was "Don't Go Near the Eskimos", about a boy in Alaska named Ben Colder (had never "been colder"). His song was so successful he continued using the name for forty years, one of his last recordings being "Shaky Breaky Car" (which parodied the song "Achy Breaky Heart").

Wooley is credited as the voice actor for the Wilhelm scream, having appeared on a memo as a voice extra for Distant Drums and later confirmed by his widow.^[2][3] This particular scream recording has been used by sound effects teams in over 149 films.

Wooley continued occasional television and film appearances through the 1990s, including an appearance as Cletus Summers, principal of Hickory High School in the 1986 film Hoosiers.

In 1996 he was diagnosed with leukemia. He died at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee in 2003 and was buried in Hendersonville Memory Gardens in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Allmusic Entry
• Sheb Wooley at Find a Grave
• Sheb Wooley at the Internet Movie Database

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Steven Rinella is an American writer, television personality, hunter, and outdoorsman. He is the author of the The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine and American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, as well as numerous magazine and newspaper articles about hunting, fishing, food, and travel. In 2011, he hosted the eight-part Travel Channel series, The Wild Within.

Early life[link]

Rinella was born in Twin Lake, Michigan on February 13, 1974. He was raised along with his two older brothers, Matthew and Daniel Rinella. He began hunting and fishing at a very young age, and was commercially trapping muskrats by the age of ten. Rinella graduated from Reeths Puffer High School in 1992. He finished his college degree at Grand Valley State University in December, 1996, after attending classes at Muskegon Community College and Lake Superior State University. Steven received a Masters of Fine Arts in 2000 from The University of Montana-Missoula.

Books[link]

[edit] The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine

The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine was published in 2006 by Miramax Books. After stumbling upon Auguste Escoffier’s culinary milestone Le Guide Culinaire, Rinella embarked on a prolific quest to procure all the ingredients necessary to recreate an elaborate forty-five course meal using Escoffier’s recipes exclusively. Rinella accounts his pursuit of these ingredients as he traverses the country in a year long culinary and hunter-gatherer escapade. The documented adventures are visceral experiences that ultimately bring to light the modern disconnect between ourselves and what we eat. "Outdoorsman and travel writer Steven Rinella brings bohemian flair and flashes of poetic sensibility to his picaresque tale of a man, a cookbook and the culinary open road."^[1]

[edit] American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

American Buffalo was published in 2008 by Spiegel and Grau. In 2005, Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt wild buffalo in the Alaskan wilderness. The book documents Rinella’s adventures tracking, killing, and butchering of a buffalo in the context of the natural history of the buffalo throughout the entirety of its existence on North America. Part hunting odyssey, part natural history, American Buffalo vividly describes the adventurous hunt in harmony with heavily researched, non-fiction writing about the history of the buffalo. "This is the most promising debut by a nature writer in years. Wittily deadpan, lean and muscular in his prose and splendidly attuned to oddities, Rinella has composed a hymn to a complicated, long-standing human-animal relationship without an ounce of sentimentality and only a little fat."^[2]

Magazine and newspaper contributions[link]

Rinella has been a contributor for numerous magazines and newspapers including Outside, The New York Times, Glamour, Trapper and Predator Caller, the New Yorker, Bowhunter, Men's Journal, Fly Fisherman, The Week, Salon.com, O the Oprah Magazine, and the annual anthologies Best American Travel Writing and Best Food Writing.

The Wild Within[link]

In 2011, Steven Rinella was the host of the Travel Channel series “The Wild Within”. The show brings Rinella across the globe as he hunts and fishes with local personalities in a cultural and culinary adventure that ultimately serves to provide meat for his family in Brooklyn, New York. Locations of episodes include Guyana, Texas, Scotland, Alberta, Montana, San Francisco, Hawaii, and Alaska. The "Wild Within" was produced by Zero Point Zero Productions.

Meateater[link]

Now Steven is the host of a show on the Sportsman channel series "Meateater", in which he chornicles his hunt and then how to field dress the animal and cook certain parts of the animal including hunts in Alaska, Arizona, and New Zealand.

References[link]

• Pursuits; Books: Gastronomy; The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
• Bakshian, Aram. Wall Street Journal [New York, N.Y] 11 Mar 2006: .10.
• http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hunting/2011/01/six-pack-steven-rinella-host-%E2%80%9C-wild-within%E2%80%9D
• http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/The_Wild_Within/About_The_Show
• STYLE & CULTURE; BOOK REVIEW; Buffalo, from plains to plate; American Buffalo; In Search of a Lost Icon; Steven Rinella; Spiegel & Grau

Ciabattari, Jane. Los Angeles Times [Los Angeles, Calif] 05 Dec 2008: .17.

• http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-12-07/books/17134167_1_american-buffalo-buffalo-springfield-lost-icon

External links[link]

• http://www.stevenrinella.com/
• Steven Rinella articles for Outside Magazine
• IMDB - Steve Rinella
• IMDB - The Wild Within