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Once a Rocker Always a Rocker
Cowboy Mach Bell
I'm a rock singer from the Boston area. I write songs & recently I've become an author too. This site is constantly updated with the latest about my new band MBE, my books ONCE A ROCKER ALWAYS A ROCKER: A DIARY and I GOTTA ROCK, my music, my concerts & personal appearances.
ONCE A ROCKER ALWAYS A ROCKER: A DIARY
ONCE A ROCKER ALWAYS A ROCKER: A DIARY
My debut book is based on the road diaries I kept during the early 80's. "Once a Rocker Always a Rocker: A Diary" is my first-hand account of how I get & manage to keep my job as lead singer with Joe Perry and his Project and the adventures that ensue over the next two and half years. Rocking, recording, laughing, fighting & touring all over the place with the JOE PERRY PROJECT!
ONCE A ROCKER ALWAYS A ROCKER: A DIARY
ONCE A ROCKER ALWAYS A ROCKER: A DIARY
ONCE A ROCKER ALWAYS A ROCKER: A DIARY
On the Road with The JOE PERRY PROJECT in the Big 80’s. The Untold Story, Unveiled in Amazing Detail.
Rock’n’Roll’s Most Freewheeling - but Ultimately Doomed Band. Outrageous, Uproarious and 100% Genuine.
True Tales from the Trenches of American Hard Rock. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry needed a singer for his Joe Perry Project. Out of nowhere, I got drafted. It was like winning the lottery. Much better though - because lotteries only pay cash. For the next two years I experienced things that money just can’t buy. Living on the road with America’s quintessential rock star, playing adventurous, rebellious music on big stages to huge crowds, signing autographs, finding romance and partying with my idols. I was suddenly on top.
At that same moment Joe Perry was spiraling downward. Health failing, marriage dissolving and deeply in debt.
In order to stay one foot ahead of the tallyman, the ex-Aerosmith star jumped into a van and hit the road. Taking me and a few other newbies along on a mad dash across North America - and beyond.
Taking any gig he could get.
ONCE AROCKER ALWAYS A ROCKER: A DIARY
326 pages, with rare photographs.
"Mach really did a great job on this.
Recommended big time!"
CARTER ALAN
WBCN, WZLX-FM personality,
rock historian & author
FIVE STAR RATINGS FOR THE AUDIOBOOK
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The deluxe, expanded AUDIOBOOK of “Once a Rocker Always a Rocker: A Diary” is now available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes/AppleBooks.
Featuring monumental Boston rocker Greg“Earthquake”Morton as Mach's co-narrator. The whole Diary is included PLUS...
Boston radio personality, author and rock historian Carter Alan joins in with his Thundertrain and Joe Perry Project insights (& some buried treasure)…
But there’s more! Joe Perry Project members Danny Hargrove and Charlie Farren drop by to spin personal road tales.
Vivid, new stories are shared, old questions are finally answered, and a gripping, new Final Chapter is premiered…
"Once A Rocker" AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS. Venmo or Paypal.
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- autographed copies of Mach's top-rated book. One price includes EVERYTHING: The Diary, free shipping and even a kustom BookMach to help save your place.
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ladies and gentlemen... I GOTTA ROCK!
"Absolutely Exhilarating" ..."A Rock and Roll Jack Kerouac-style Journey"... "Hits on ALL Cylinders"
My latest book is a 20 year rock memoir, spanning the years 1965-85. As a journeyman rocker I toured & recorded with Boston-based bands like Thundertrain and Joe Perry Project but I began at age 10 as a cellist. Page 1 of "I Gotta Rock" begins at a 1968 Jimi Hendrix Experience concert in Framingham MA. Excited by what I see, I'm soon attending local Led Zeppelin and Jeff Beck Group shows. I unexpectedly have dinner with Monkee Michael Nesmith and eventually Thundertrain gears-up and 5 years later I'm auditioning for Joe Perry. With my bands I rock Boston, NYC and eventually, the entire USA. Headlining or playing along with the Runaways, Phil Lynott, the Cars, Cheap Trick, the Dead Boys and dozens more. This is a sequel, prequel & return to the gritty scene of my first book. All new stories, a candid, rocket-paced, humorous & occasionally shocking memoir of 20 years on the road. - Mach
I Gotta Rock! 492 pages. Nearly 200 photographs.
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MBE RIDES OUT
I gotta brand new bag. It's a BAND(!)
The MACH BELL EXPERIENCE (MBE)!
MBE is a hard-riffing quartet banging out Blazing-Hot live versions of my JOE PERRY PROJECT and THUNDERTRAIN favorites w/ some Brit/Soul/Flash/Blues-Rock nuggets mixed-in. Served Dirty, Fresh and Heavy. Hell yea!
Introducing the MBE ...
JOHNNY PRESS is the lead guitar rocket that guides the Mach Bell Experience. In late April '22, Johnny began putting together the players and rehearsing my songs. Then he phoned me "Listen Mach, don't even come down until I tell ya we're ready."
Look carefully at the famous Led Zeppelin at Boston Tea Party 1969 photos and you'll see Johnny, right up front, studying Jimmy Page. A year or two later I got my first earful of lead guitarist Johnny Press. He was rocking live on TV, an in-studio PBS concert starring his Salem State College-based band, Gross National Productions (Metromedia Records 1972).
"If I could play guitar like anyone it would be Johnny Press."
- Tom Werman, record producer
Johnny's worked in scores of rock bands
(Velocity, Big Guns, Smokin' Joe, Burning Sky). His just-released solo record is titled "Johnny Press Nuclear Gypsy."
Beating drums for the MBE is BAM BAM. I never met this Bam before but Johnny Press took a chance on him, so I thought "what the hell ..."
John Billy Woolridge... sounds like a desperado name from a "Wanted" poster. Didn't he ride with the Dalton gang?
Skinny John Billy shortened his moniker to BAM BAM and Bam collects drums like Joe Perry collects leather pants. His music studio - where we rock - houses a space station-size, wall-to-wall drum-set. It keeps reproducing itself all over the place. Boney Bam claims he'll pare down the theme park-scaled kit for Mach Bell Experience gigs. We'll soon see ...
Billy "Bam Bam" Woolridge kicks out the jams. He hits hard and he looks like one of those drummers who perform "spontaneous human combustion" so catch him while you still can - with the Mach Bell Experience!
JOE BLACK has risen from the grave!
When Joe isn't lying motionless in his crypt - he rocks!
Joe Black eats rock. He breathes it. He checks his eye-liner, straps on a spooky-looking bass guitar and delivers.
I first beheld Joe, standing in the spotlight in '77. On stage with Charlie Farren (my lead-singing predecessor from the Joe Perry Project) in their band Balloon.
Joe's rocked with Bam before in Ball'n Chain. Plus, he's got a heavy solo album "Blackenstein" produced by my Last Man Standing bandmate & ace musician, Aart Knyff.
I'm bloody-well psyched to have monster-bassman JB in the MBE line-up. Behold the satanic rock'n'roll rites of Joe Black, if you dare!
MBE = MACH BELL EXPERIENCE
"That set the tenor for what was undeniably the highlight of Hallapalooza: the debut performance of Mach’s new band the Mach Bell Experience! Ably supported by guitarist Johnny Press (who did a stupendous job recreating those Joe Perry riffs), bassist Joe Black (former member of ‘70s loco rockers Balloon) and powerhouse drummer Billy “Bam Bam” Woolridge, the Cowboy kicked off his set with Chuck Berry’s “Round and Round” and swaggered through selections from his Thundertrain and Joe Perry Project days, along with cool covers of T. Rex’s “Bang a Gong (Get it On)” and Yardbirds “I’m Not Talking.”
His stage presence was as magnetic and raucous as ever, whether giving a rock lesson with “Walk with Me Sally,” donning a king’s crown during “King of the Kings” or attempting to destroy maracas (unsuccessfully, as it turned out!) after shakin’ them during “Four Guns West!”
Hard to believe Mach hasn’t played live with a rock band in a decade, but he’s certainly been making the rounds lately with his newfound success as an author for his two memoirs of his prime rocking days, and he finished his set with what he described as a song, an album, a book and his raison d’etre: “ Way to go, Cowboy!" Once a Rocker, Always a Rocker!”
BOSTON GROUPIE NEWS 9/26/22
MACH BELL EXPERIENCE on Tour
SAT FEB 11 Cambridge MA Middle East /Up
w/ Freeloader, Tiger Bomb 6pm - 9pm
AUTOGRAPHED CDS
Once a Rocker Always a Rocker
10 studio tracks. New edition of 1983 Joe Perry Project classic. Printed in the Netherlands. I will break the seal & sign it to you.
AUTOGRAPHED CD $29.99
THUNDERTRAIN 1979 - RECORDED LIVE!
13 live tracks. Starfleet mobile production, originally aired on WCOZ-FM.
Gulcher Records released this no holds-barred live 2/1/79 Thundertrain concert at the Summit, Peabody MA.
Liner notes by Mach Bell. Includes Hot For Teacher, Dirty Water, Mama Weer All Krazee Now, Counterattack, I Gotta Rock & more. Autographed CD $19.99
MACH BELL'S WILD BAR BAND FROM 2005!
10 studio tracks. Lawless Records. Mach Bell went back to the city in 2004 and Mach 5 happened! Great sounding arena-punk-hard-rock from Mach, Dee Stroy, Jeff and Jimmy Birmingham.
Liner notes by Mach Bell.
Get It Up, Quincy Girl, Kenmore Square and seven more! Autographed CD $19.99
PAYPAL or VENMO . With payment PLEASE include your (USA Only) mailing address, the CD(s) requested and the name(s) you'd like me to inscribe my signature to! You can always contact me (up top) here on the page!
- Always a Rocker, Mach