Here's a pure slab of mid-70's proto punk insanity, straight out of the rubber pits of Akron. Bold Chicken was born out of the childhood friendship between Buzz Clic and Ray Forsyth. Ray started his musical career as guitarist and singer in local high school bands in Hudson, Ohio.
The plan was simple, Buzz was to enlist the talents of mutual high school friend and drummer Jim Becker and guitar playing buddie Kenny Jones... with Ray playing bass the lineup was set...This early configuration was called 'Dead Leather'....needless to say an alternate name was quickly agreed on and 'Bold Chicken' took flight.....
The band played local gigs in the northeast Ohio area and during this time, Buzz, while working at a childrens psychiatric hospital (where Ray had worked before entering the Marines) met and befriended Sam Leo, with Sam becoming a roommate and interested party with what was going on with the Bold Chicken rehearsals. Sam mentioned he could play keyboards and his talents were quickly assimilated into the band. The band was playing out now on a semi-regular basis at JB's in Kent, Ohio but things had grown strained between Ray and the rest of the band causing him to more often not show up for rehearsals.
So, with Ray not showing up, Buzz and Sam began tinkering with original material. The initial results are the 4 studio tracks presented here, recorded in 1972 at Keigers Studio in Akron,Ohio. The songs were included in the regular set lists at gigs and were more or less ignored by the majority of audiences. Still, having their first studio experience result in 2 - 45rpm records, Sam and Buzz were encouraged to continue with their creativedevelopment...a 2 track recorder was purchaced by Jim and from then on all music was recorded and further scrutinized later.
Soon afterwards, Buzz was hanging around his apartment when who should stroll up to his doorstep (toting a Gibson Firebird and Fender Twin) none other than old buddie Rod Firestone...with that jam session...King Cobra was born and the seeds of the Rubber City Rebels were sown...
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