Adam Bomb - Graveworld
This one was released in 1993 by Rockworld Records. Jimmy is a
member of the band.
From Cristoffer's Page:
Important to Adam Bomb's career was David Krebs,
who as you may know had previously guided the career of Aerosmith.
In '84 Adam went to a Michael Schenker concert in San Francisco
and got them to play his video before Schenker went on.
Schenker’s manager, David Krebs, saw the video and was impressed
with Adam Bomb. He contacted Adam and signed him to a 15 year
management deal with Leber Krebs. Krebs flew him to New York and
put Adam together with some veterans, including Jimmy Crespo on
guitar. The band also included former Riot/Ace Frehley drummer
Sandy Slavin & former Riot/Billy Idol bassist Phil Feit. The
four of them started rehearsing in SIR in New York City.
After years of studio work and a disappointing
attempt with his first band, Flame, Crespo had spent four years
replacing original Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry when he went out
on his own. When Perry decided to rejoin Aerosmith, Crespo found
himself looking for a new band. At around the same time, Feit left
Billy Idol. He was also looking for a true band situation, so he
eventually formed a band with Jimmy. As fate would have it, Feit
and Crespo were looking for another guitarist/front man at the
same time that Adam was looking for a band. Phil then recruited
his old pal Slavin to play drums. Once they played together, as
Feit recalls, “...we were four separate personalities that were
really strong...but still a band. ..we knew right away it would
work.”
Although not a member, the album also features bassist/background
vocalist Cliff Williams of AC/DC on the single I Want My Heavy
Metal.
The band played it's first gig at the Ritz in
NYC . Later the band showcased for record labels. A bidding war
went on between Polygram and Geffen. Krebs decided to take the
label that offered the most money. Geffen Records signed Adam Bomb
to a 6 record deal for over a million dollars. Then David Krebs
split with his partner Steve Leber and moved himself and the band
to Los Angeles.
In 1986, after playing several shows in New York
clubs, Jimmy returned to Los Angeles to live with his new
girlfriend. The band recorded more albums after this, but without
any involvement with Jimmy Crespo.
Various other Aerosmith/Adam Bomb related
history
[source: AdamBomb.com]
1985: Krebs hires former Aerosmith road
manager Bob "Kelly" Kelleher to oversee the band.
Kelly was fired from Aerosmith years ago during the Krebs years
for stealing and heavy drug abuse. Krebs decided to give another
chance with Adam Bomb.
Fatal Attraction got released in America, just
as Geffen records announced they had signed Aerosmith. There was
a lawsuit between Leber Krebs and Aerosmith going on at the
time. Aerosmith manager Tim Collins was in direct negotiation
with Geffen Records President Ed Rosenblatt. Tim Collins and
Aerosmith publicly resented David Krebs. They never settled
until years later, although Aerosmith has never been fond of
David Krebs since.
David Krebs told Adam that Geffen will not
give him the 50,000.00 in video money that was guaranteed in the
contract. Although he was friends with David Geffen since they
both worked together in the mailroom at The William Morris
Agency, Krebs stated that he was going to leave Geffen Records
because of breach of contract, David Krebs moved his family from
his rented beach house in Malibu back to New York City. Adam and
bassist Phil Feit went back to New York as well. Guitarist Jimmy
Crespo & drummer Sandy Slavin stayed in Los Angeles and both
moved in with girls they had met in Hollywood while the band
lived at the Beverly Sunset Hotel. Both Jimmy and Sandy
eventually married these girls and started families. Adam
started writing songs for a new record while his manager set up
shop in ex-partner Steve Leber's office in New York City.
Aerosmith released Done With Mirrors on Geffen while Krebs made
a deal to release Adam Bomb from obligation to Geffen Records
for one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Krebs said he
would use this money to record a new album for a new record
label.
1986: Krebs decided to concentrate on
releasing an Aerosmith live album called Classics Live and had
one of his employees, Paul O'Neil, hire a studio and an engineer
to fix the tapes. Paul O'Neil was managing another band at time
called Heaven. Jimmy Crespo was flown in to overdub guitar
tracks and Paul O'Neil added rhythm guitar and also added
keyboards played by Mitch Perry, a member of Heaven. It was
rumored that Adam played on it but that wasn't true. David Krebs
had Paul O'Neil take Adam, Jimmy Crespo, Phil Feit and drummer
Gregg Gerson into a studio to cut one song. Bomb didn't agree
with Paul O'Neil's "do it in one take and I'll give you 5
dollars" production technique. The song & tapes were
scrapped and Krebs continued to focus on repackaging Aerosmith
material, having Paul O'Neil produce a second live Aerosmith
album. Steven Tyler confronted Adam years later and accusing him
of playing on the bogus Aerosmith albums. Although Adam denied
playing on it saying he couldn't play that crappy, Tyler seemed
to have his doubts.
1989: Jack Douglas, the former Aerosmith
producer, was constantly at David Krebs office hitting up Krebs
for Aerosmith royalty advances. Jack liked Adam's new demos and
convinced Krebs to put together a budget to record three songs
at a New York recording studio being that was in the process of
being rebuilt.
1990: Pre-production started with Jack Douglas
at 321 Studios located at 321 West 44th street, the former
address of the Record Plant, where Jack had recorded Aerosmith.
The studio was now owned two shady characters. At the time Jack
Douglas was heavily addicted to drugs. Jack believed that Yoko
Ono hired a witch to put a curse on him. There were a lot of
things going on that didn't seem quite right with the owners of
the studio. Adam and Jack Douglas camped out in the studio while
the control room was gutted and rebuilt. Along with drummer
Bobby Chouinard and guitarist Steve Stevens, they rearranged the
demos and threw parties in the studio. It took about a month
until the studio control room was finished.
Somehow by February, the studio owners managed
to get multi-million dollar state-of-the-art equipment that was
brought in from Sony and other high tech companies. Everything
was wired up and running. They were able to do this using Jack
Douglas and David Krebs names as clients and saying Jack was
going to record Aerosmith at the studio. This was Krebs had
contracted Jack do a remix on the Texas Jam video soundtrack. It
was another repackaging of old material put out by Krebs'
without Aerosmith's involvement. This was to be done after the
bugs got worked out in the just-rewired studio with the Adam
Bomb album.
Jack Douglas worked out a deal to do the
recording of 3 songs for tape cost. When the cost of tape became
ten thousand dollars Krebs became suspicious. Somehow he managed
to lump everything in with the Aerosmith deal which kept the
studio owners of Jack's back so Adam could continue recording. 3
songs turned into 12. 12 songs were completed on a 72 track
digital master tape, but they were yet to be mixed. Adam decided
to call the album New York Times. Adam finished his tracks and
left for Europe. The album was ready to mixed by Jack Douglas
and his engineer Jay Messina and was slated to finished by the
time Bomb returned from Europe.
Adam went to London, Munich and Paris in March
for a 3 week press tour. When he returned to New York, Jack
Douglas had only mixed three songs before starting the Aerosmith
project. The 321 studios had went bankrupt and all the studio
equipment had been repossessed by their creditors. The building
rent was never paid. The studio turned out to be a front for
some investment scam. The master tapes were also missing and one
of the studio owners had been thrown in jail.
