Alan-Merrill Videos

Alan Merrill performs his composition "When The Night Comes" at the Alphabet Lounge friday Jan 18th, 2008. This song was covered by Lou Rawls in 1983 on Epic Records. It was also covered by Catherine Howe in 1980 on Arista Records. Alan Merrill has released versions of the song on his "Cupid Deranged" and "Aleecat" solo albums. The Lou Rawls version was taken into space by astronaut Gulon Bluford, and was the first song ever played outside of the earth's orbit, in space.

Rock veteran Alan Merrill does a spontaneous short teaser version of his composition "I love rock n roll" in Yokohama Japan at the jazz & blues festival 1997 with his band Vodka Collins. Caught on film with my camera cell phone. FYI- Merrill wrote sang and recorded the original Arrows version in 1975, later made mega hits by Joan Jett and Briteny Spears. I love when in the introduction he says "uh, maybe you know this" like he was singing some obscure unknown song. Fantastic.

Alan Merrill performs the Left banke song "Walk Away Renee" from his "Rive Gauche" maxi EP single live at the Alphabet Lounge in New York City January 18th, 2008. Merrill is tipsy and the crowd are noisy. A slice of video madness from the lower east side of NYC.

The Doctor leaves Dr Grace and the year 2000 behind him as the TARDIS goes haywire, ending up in 1978 Cardiff Wales. A few members of Torchwood have taken it upon themselves to experiment with synthetic vampire blood on human females. Rocker Alan Merrill barely escapes a vampire attack as he winds up in the TARDIS with the 8th Doctor. Can they stop Torchwood before it is too late? "I Love Rock N Roll" by Alan Merrill USED WITH PERMISSION For more info on Alan's music, please visit: http://www.alanmerrill.com

Arrows lead singer Alan Merrill gets a turn at being part of the mystery lineup on Nevermind The Buzzcocks in 2002. A no brainer for the panel, which included Skid Row's Sebastian Bach. There's a glimpse of Arrows performing their 1974 top ten record "touch too much," which reached #6 in the NME singles charts. Interesting that the show's host failed to mention that Merrill was also a guitarist for several years with the band Meat Loaf after The Arrows broke up. I was amazed that fact was overlooked given the revered stature of the Meat Loaf band in the UK.

Alan Merrill performs a solo acoustic version of his composition "Theo" from 1997 and his Tokyo based band Vodka Collins' album titled "Pink Soup." This vidcam version was filmed at The Mean Fiddler in Manhattan, NYC on Feb 16th, 2008.

A machinima visualization of Alan Merrill's "When The Night Comes" from his CD Aleecat: http://cdbaby.com/cd/alanmerrill6 When Lou Rawls covered this song as the title track to his 1983 album, it was taken into space by the first black astronaut in history, Gulon Bluford. It was the first LP ever in outer space. For more info about Alan Merrill, please visit: http://alanmerrill.com PEW MAN FU STUDIOS http://charlemange.net

A machinima visualization of Alan Merrill's"When The Night Comes" from his CD Aleecat:http://cdbaby.com/cd/alanmerrill6When Lou Rawls covered this song as the title track to his 1983 album, it was taken into space by the first black astronaut in history, Gulon Bluford. It was the first LP ever in outer space.For more info about Alan Merrill, please visit:http://alanmerrill.comPEW MAN FU STUDIOShttp://charlemange.net

Alan Merrill performs a solo acoustic version of "Theo" from his legendary Tokyo based band Vodka Collins' "Pink Soup" album. The song has also appeared on the Vodka Collins best of collection "Boys In The Band." This was filmed with my simple camera phone at the Mean Fiddler in New York City. February 16th, 2008.If he'd performed this underground classic in Japan the audience would be hanging on every word and nuance, but the New York arrested development college crowd were chattering away clearly not understanding what they were witnessing, since Alan Merrill is totally obscure in his home country, the USA. His chart hits are in Japan, the UK and Europe.

Funny scene from 1989s Encyclopedia Brown directed by Savage Steve Holland. Alan Merrill as rock n roller Casey Sparkz and Bruno Marcotulli as Chief Brown having a funny misunderstanding. Also in the scene are Rick Overton ("Earth Girls Are Easy") as Buddy Clagget and Tianna Pierce ("Mother's Day") as Mrs Brown. Clip trivia: Director Savage Steve Holland had already made the classic blockbusters "One Crazy Summer" and "Better Off Dead" at the time of this filming.