David Libert (The Happenings, Alice Cooper)

David Libert is our guest. And he’s got such a wild story to tell that he actually did write a book about it! His career in music began singing doo-wop with his friends just to be able to hang out and meet girls. But his band, The Happenings, were good. So David went to Tin Pan Alley to convince the industry. He and his partner, Bob Miranda eventually got jobs writing music for a label run by The Tokens of The Lion Sleeps Tonight fame. The took the job with the stipulation that The Tokens would help The Happenings with their music. Sometime after the band’s biggest hit, See You In September, David saw the writing on the wall and left The Happenings (which he was managing) to manage other bands like Rare Earth. His success there led to him working with the legendary Shep Gordon and Alice Cooper. And what a baptism of fire that was! After feeling burnt out, David started his own agency which ended with David in prison. But it was OK, he started playing in the prison jazz trio. After prison, David had to start from the ground up again. But he did it, eventually working with George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic, Prince, and one of my personal favorites, Living Colour. Pick up his book through Amazon or his website rockandrollwarrior.com. Follow him on social media to see what he’s up to. Follow us @PerformanceAnx on Twitter & Instagram. You can help us manage this podcast through merch purchases at performanceanx.threadless.com or with some coffee at ko-fi.com/performanceanxiety. Now saddle up for a wild ride with David Libert on Performance Anxiety on the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices