HELL BENT FOR LEATHER
Hell Bent for Leather is a vinyl-only compilation album by Milan the Leather Boy that also features a second side of songs that he wrote and/or produced for others throughout the 1960’s. This album was released in 2009 as an LP only (#LS-001LP) and is evidently the initial release by a French label LS. (More from Wikipedia)
Morris Levy and Roulette Records also figure in the story of Milan (also known as the Leather Boy), one of the most mysterious figures in 1960’s garage rock. The Wikipedia article that I wrote about him some years back – now listed under the name Milan the Leather Boy – is the one that I am proudest of. His sister (who lives in Boca Raton) contacted me later, and she helped fill in a lot of the blanks. However, even before that, I managed to put together a pretty coherent story from literally dozens of bits and pieces that I found on the Internet. A retrospective album of Milan’s work finally came out in 2009 – called Hell Bent for Leather – and when I saw that the album liner notes referenced my Wikipedia article, I could not have been more surprised. An expanded article that I wrote on Milan is scheduled to appear in the Fall/Winter 2012 issue of Ugly Things magazine.
(March 2012)
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Not even Bomp! Records founder Greg Shaw – who released several of his songs on the albums in the Pebbles Series – was able to find out much of anything about Milan. I took it upon myself to dig up what I could for an article on him for Wikipedia, and once I made contact with his sister Dara Rodell Gould, I was able to get the full scoop. In fact, she is the one who got me to sign up for Facebook. As you might imagine, I am pretty excited about the Ugly Things article – heck, I was plenty stoked when a 2009 retrospective album of Milan’s music, Hell Bent for Leather mentioned my Wikipedia article. But enough about me!
(July 2012)
