I played it over and over until Glen Buxton got back, and I showed the riff to him.Ī couple of weeks after that the band was in Cincinnati, Ohio and I wrote the lyrics. I had a little bass amp with me, and I was playing my bass so loud that it had this wonderful distortion, and that’s when I came up with the riff for Black Juju - inspired by that little flaming inferno in the dark room. It looked like this tiny flaming inferno. ![]() I took the little metal plate off the water heater and I could see this fire inside of it. Everybody else had gone out to party and I was in this dark tiny room with a washing machine and a water heater. We were at this little hotel in I think Buffalo, or Rochester, New York. I was on dark, sinister kick after Fields of Regret and I wanted to write more dark songs to develop the Alice Cooper character around. By the time we got to Easy Action we had began to learn how to write a song where we could preconceive what it was going to be. We’d write a song, and only after it was written would we see what it was - it would be a surprise to all of us. Pretties for You was like firing a shotgun at a blank sheet of music notation, and the holes would be the songs.
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