Danny McCulloch

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Daniel Joseph "Danny" McCulloch (18 July 1945 – January 29, 2015) was an English singer best known as the bassist of Eric Burdon and The Animals, a 1960s English rock band.

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Early career

Danny McCulloch was born in Shepherd's Bush, West London, England. Despite a common surname, he was not a friend of Henry McCullough (who worked under original Animal Chas Chandler's leadership) or Jimmy McCulloch, both members of the 1970s band Wings.

McCulloch began playing skiffle music at the age of eleven. The Avro Boys, from Shepherd's Bush, were his first band, before he became Tony Craven & The Casuals in the late 1950s. The Casuals were linked with new singer Frankie Reid and McCulloch in 1960, and they remained with the group until 1962. Mitch Mitchell, one of the band's drummers, performed with Frankie Reid & The Casuals.

McCulloch and drummer Derek Sirmon followed Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages and remained until May 1963. McCullough and Sirmon were members of The Plebs, a Woking band, who released a single as a lone king. McCulloch briefly with The Carl Douglas Settlers until Eric Burdon invited him to join Burdon's new band in mid-1966.

McCulloch joined the "New Animals" in late 1966, becoming the first "new" Animal hired by Eric Burdon in late 1966. Burdon was introduced by McCulloch to guitarist and violinist John Weider, who in turn introduced Burdon to guitarist Vic Briggs. "San Franciscan Nights," "Monterey" and "Sky Pilot" were among the reconstituted group's hits singles, including "San Franciscan Nights," "Monterey" and "Sky Pilot." On the two albums from which these singles were released, all band members were credited as co-authors. Eric Burdon's songwriting credit came as a result of his third album of the reformed group Every One of Us. Zoot Money, the Keyboardist, had been with the band for a long time. McCulloch and Briggs were both fired from the band shortly before the release of this third album. Weider's switch from guitar to bass changed McCulloch, while Briggs was replaced by Andy Summers, later of The Police.

McCulloch and Briggs continued to work together in the years that followed. McCulloch released the album Wings of a Man in 1969, with Briggs as the producer and arranger.

McCulloch performed on Reg King's solo album in 1971, former lead singer of The Action. Mick Taylor, Steve Winwood, and Brian Auger were among the other entertainers on this tour. He appeared in Renaissance as a bassist for a short time, as well as former Plebs bandmate Michael Dunford, who was a composer and guitarist with Renaissance.

McCulloch served as a psychiatric nurse in Rauceby Hospital, the south Lincolnshire psychiatric hospital located in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, in the 1980s.

McCulloch joined as the bass player and a singer of a reformed Animals in 1992, including Vic Briggs and drummer Barry Jenkins. Briggs claimed that he had the right to name the band "The Animals" at the time, after trademarked the word in the United States. The band performed the first rock concert in Red Square, Moscow, with Phil Ryan on lead vocals rather than Eric Burdon.

McCulloch assembles a new Animals band that rerecorded the band's hits, as well as some originals by McCulloch in 1993. The content received mixed feedback, including some that led to confusion and inaccurate assumptions that Eric Burdon was on the song. Many customers were deceived after learning that Burdon was not involved.

"Danny McCulloch's Associates," he released Beowulf, his second album. Steve Rowland, who also wrote the album, co-wrote a song on the album, but Danny Kirwan co-written one. Gary Wright, Chris Spedding, Herbie Flowers, Ray Cooper, Steve Gregory, Chas Hodges, and Chris Mercer were among the "Mates" on the "Mates."

McCulloch was involved in controversy over re-recordings alleged by several artists, including Mott the Hoople, involving an alleged revival of the band by Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson in 1993. McCulloch Chapman Music, a music promoter, and singer and guitarist Gerry Chapman, formed McCulloch Chapman Music, which sold what seemed to be new recordings by original artists such as Mott The Hoople, "The New Animals," Paper Lace, and The Byrds. McCulloch's recordings appeared to be new recordings by him and Ronson, who were actually McCulloch and Chapman, who were operating under the band name The Trybe. Five of the twelve songs on the suspect Mott The Hoople "greatest hits" album were credited to McCulloch and Chapman, but Mott The Hoople had never been recorded by Mott The Hoople. K-Tel said it had worked with McCulloch in the past, and that it had paid $75,000 for the tapes. Ian Hunter's voice had been remixed along with a soundalike voice in order to increase it, according to McCulloch, and that the remixing had been done with Ian Hunter's knowledge and permission. Hunter denied the allegations categorically, claiming that he had not worked with Ronson since 1989. The Best of Mott The Hoople album, which had been released in 1996, was also withdrawn in 1997. K-Tel pled guilty to two charges under the Trade Descriptions Act of Great Britain in 1998, much following Ian Hunter's investigation. Mott The Hoople recording had been licensed to other companies by McCulloch Chapman Music, resulting in several editions of the misrepresented material, including All The Young Dudes (Denmark Digimode, 1996; Ireland, Eagle Rock Pegasus, 1997)) and The Magic Collection (Holland ARC MEC, 1997). The recordings were then released under the heading I Can't Believe It's Not Mott The Hoople, instead of Mott The Hoople, and credit to The Trybe in 2002. These songs were also released on ITunes later this year. The Trybe covered Steppenwolf songs, while McCulloch and Chapman featured songs.

McCulloch was touring with Animals and Friends, led by original drummer John Steel and organist Dave Rowberry, but McCulloch was not a regular member of the group in the 2000s.

When I Was Young, McCulloch's digital biography on Amazon Digital Services, in which he says joining and playing with The Animals was "the biggest mistake of my life." "The book is described as "revealing" the truth of the major hippie rip off to musicians in the 1960s and 1970s.

McCulloch's album Back Again, Just For A Bit.

McCulloch died of heart disease on January 29, 2015, at the age of 69.

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