Howard Kaylan

Howard Kaylan ( born June 22, 1947 in New York as Howard Kaplan ) is an American rock musician who is primarily known as a singer. The mid-1960s he founded together with Mark Volman the bubblegum pop group The Turtles, which at that time countless Top Ten hits (Happy Together) and had enjoyed world fame.

Kaylan grew up in the town of West Chester on in Los Angeles. At school he met the same age Mark Volman. He was particularly interested in choral singing and the clarinet playing. At the age of 16, he won the Bank of America Fine Arts Award - a prize for young talents. After school he gave at the University of California only a brief interlude as a student. His interest was rather less academic things, but he took care of all the more to the university's own radio station. Kaylans students running track ended at the moment when his, as he calls them, "Weekend combo " got a record deal.

At this band "The Night Riders " came in 1965 Mark Volman, his buddy from common days of high school. From the night riders, the group " Crossfire " on the turn, a well-known disc jockey became aware of was. Who took over the management of the band, which renamed itself again and enjoyed a period of five years worldwide fame as The Turtles ( qv).

When the Turtles were dissolved in 1970, made ​​Howard Kaylan and his brother in spirit, Mark Volman, another decade long international sensation, this time as Flo & Eddie ( see there).

Kaylan has worked since 1970 with over 100 well-known rock and pop stars, sometimes a producer, sometimes as a background singer. In the film Get Crazy, he worked in the role of Captain Cloud as an actor. Sometime in the mid -1990s, Howard Kaylan moved more and more into writing. Especially the genre Dark Fantasy and science fiction had it done to him. His short stories Phantoms of the Night and Forbidden Acts in America managed the leap into the bestseller lists.

In 2001, Kaylan wrote the screenplay for a short film, from which, after some years of work ultimately the full-length feature film My Dinner with Jimi was. Howard Kaylan times now lives in Seattle, sometimes in Hollywood, where he, "concerned" looks forward to the release of his film, as he himself says.

Discography (selection)

Solo

  • Howard Kaylan: Dust Bunnies - 2005 ( his first solo album )

Flo & Eddie

  • Flo & Eddie: Illegal, Immoral and Fattening - 1974
  • Flo & Eddie: Rock Steady - 1981

Backing vocals

  • T. Rex T. Rex - 1970 (only Seagull Woman)
  • T. Rex: Electric Warrior - 1971
  • Mothers of Invention: Fillmore East - 1971
  • Mothers of Invention: Just Another Band from LA - 1972
  • T. Rex: The Slider - 1972
  • John Lennon: Some Time in New York City - 1972 ( Live Jam )
  • Roger McGuinn Peace on You - 1973
  • Ray Manzarek: The Whole Thing Started with Rock'n'Roll - 1975
  • Stephen Stills: Illegal Stills - 1976
  • California Dreaming (Soundtrack) - 1979
  • Alice Cooper: Flush the Fashion - 1980
  • Blondie: Autoamerican - 1980
  • Al Stewart: Live / Indian Summer - 1981
  • Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane - 1989
  • Bruce Springsteen: Live - 1991
  • Ramones: Mondo Bizarro - 1992
  • Yoko Ono: Ono Box - 1992
  • Steely Dan: Citizen Steely Dan - 1993
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