Danny Adler The Roogalator

Danny was an original member of "Rocket 88" with Charlie Watts and Ian Stewart from the Rolling Stones, Alexis Korner, and Jack Bruce. Their love of the music that King Records and many other early R&B labels brought to world recognition was played with a hard edge and rock and roll fire. The Deluxe Blues Band was born when Danny met up with Bob Brunning, bass player for Fleetwood Mac. They added Mickey Waller on drums, (Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart), and Bob Hall on keyboards (Savoy Brown, Groundhogs). Dick Heckstall-Smith added a funky tenor sax.Danny played shows with Bo Diddley, Jimmy Witherspoon, Memphis Slim, Annie Ross, (Lambert Hendricks & Ross), Lowell Fulson, Eddie Vinson, Charlie Musselwhite, Dr. John, Carey Bell, Slim Galliard, and recorded with Tony Cook, James Brown's drummer.

Accomplishments

The Danny Adler Band reemerged with new members and recorded six all original LP's. Two Deluxe Blues Band LP's followed. The "Otis Elevator Gilmore" LP sparked a legal question because Danny became Otis, a fictitious, old time blues man, and signed as his widow in the lease deal to a major reissue label. He sounded like the real thing because he is. He paid his dues in the black clubs, like the Sha Ra and Vet's Inn where they'd have their arms folded when he started playing. By the first few bars, they were screaming, "Play it, white boy!"

He worked with Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds in a band called "the Disco Brothers" contributing original material. He was one of the first artists on the "Stiff" label. He was well known to Elvis Costello (also on Stiff) and others who had a pop/rock feel in their music. Danny did it all fusing blues, rock, soul and even jazz. He could play pop just as well, such as Plytas' "Love and the Single Girl." "Cincinnati Fatback/ All Aboard" (BUY3) as the third single released on the innovative Stiff label. Some of the punk bands in the late 70's/ early 80's were familiar with Adler, the "Roogalator" guitar master. The Vibrators, Sex Pistols and Clash even warmed up for him. They did not play Danny's style of music but acknowledged the musicianship it took to make that sound.

He recorded a jazz LP (previously unreleased) at Rudy Van Gelder's studio and a live Blues LP in Cincinnati in 1993.

The late 80's/ early 90's became a hard time for blues in America. Danny gigged solo and expanded his vast repertoire of originals, blues, jazz and songs from the 30's to the present.

He became a locomotive fireman in England and licensed locomotive engineer in the USA. His love of the railroad, the art of the steam engine, and train design continues as he runs trains and writes music about them. Roots roll on in his music and you can never pin down just one sound. It's like a blues soul rock and roll thunderclap with jazzy undertones and a flash of pop. He sounds like no one else. Just listen to "Gusha-Gusha" music.

The Danny Adler Band is playing today and his new songs continue to be fresh and innovative, so get "All Aboard" and groove to "Cincinnati Fatback." If you want to feel the sound, you have to get down with the "Solid Sender." All Danny's original songs are available on iTunes.com.