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.

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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.

Alan Merrill - (lead vocals-bass gtr), Jon Paris - (guitar - vocal harmonies), Kenny Ashby - (drums), perform the classic Arthur Alexander song "Anna" at BB King's in Times Square, New York City in a loose and unrehearsed jam session situation. Alan Merrill recorded the song on his "Double Shot Rocks" album, released in 2004. Video shot by Glam Rock Angie with her hand held video camera, Autumn 2006.

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's 1985 Hard Hearted Woman video, the first single release from his Polydor solo album. The actresses are Joan Hastings as the brunette, and Kathleen Vigeland the blonde. Note: Alan Merrill played all the instruments and did all the voices (lead and background) on this track. Vid trivia: A young pre-fame Will Smith attended this 1984 Adam Friedman produced video shoot.

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.

Billy J Kramer does a re-make of his 1960s #1 worldwide chart hit, and has a UK top 10 hit with it all over again in 1976. Arrows lead singer Alan Merrill introduces Billy J Kramer in this clip. Interesting trivia: The proud new father named Mike Montgomery that Arrows Alan Merrill reads out the song dedication to is in fact the keyboard player of guitarist Paul Kossoff's band Backstreet Crawler, a good friend of Alan's.

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.