Fotomaker - s/t

Name: Fotomaker
Album: s/t
Year: 1978
Style: Powerpop, Light Rock
Similar Bands: Journey, Raspberries, Shoes, Foreigner, Badfinger, Todd Rundgren, Big Star
"One-Word" Review: Forgettable from a Roofie harmonized pop
Based Out Of: Long Island, NYC, NY
Label: Atlantic, Warner Communications,

 Cover, Sleeve, Record

Back, Credits, Record

Fotomaker (1978)

1. Where Have You Been All My Life 3:36 (single)
2. Can I Please Have Some More 4:26
3. All There In her Eyes 3:34
4. Two Can Make It Work 3:00
5. The Other Side 3:54 /
6. Say the Same for You 2:20
7. Plaything 4:50
8. All These Years 3:18
9. Pain 3:40
10. Lose at Love 4:56

Album Rating (1-10): 6.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Wally Bryson - Guitars, Vox (Raspberries, Tattoo, Peter Panic, The Bryson Group, The CARE Session, The Choir, Sittin' Ducks )
• Gene Cornish - Bass, Vox (New-Young-Rascals, Bulldog, Gene and the Satellites, Unbeetables, Joey Dee & Starliters, BJ Thomas, Labelle, Michael Bruce )
• Dino Danelli - Drums, Art Direction, Design (New-Young-Rascals, Bulldog, Little Steven & the Disiples of Soul, BJ Thomas, Laura Nyro, David Rea, Michael Bruce, Felix Cavaliere, Pepper, Duane Allman)
• Lex Marchesi - Lead & Acoustic Guitars, Vox
• Frankie Vinci - Keys, Flute, Vox (Gary US Bonds, Screen Test)
• Mike Lewis - String Arrangement
• Eddie Kramer - Producer, Engineer
• David Whitman - Asst. Engineer
• Jimmy Douglas - Re-Mixing
• Randy Mason - Remix Asst.
• Joe Schick - Exec. Producer
• Larry Huffman - Exec. Producer
• Thormahler / Rock - Photography & Coloring
• George Jordan - Equipment Manager
• Sam L Hood - Mgmt

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but to be honest, the first reaction is that the cover makes them look paedo-ish. Not sure how old the model on the front is, or what their thought process was, but it looks like a kids-bop singer. Even the song names don't help: "Plaything," "Where Have you Been All My Life," "All There In her Eyes" and make it even more uncomfortable. As there is not much more to go off of, i can only assume by these factors and the year, this will be smooth production with harmonies as either power pop or light/AOR rock.

Album Review: To speak of the elephant in the room, the girl on the cover is about 8-9, and is apparently the daughter of the publisher of Club: an x-rated magazine. But this was part of a grander picture, because their second album released in 1978 as well features a very old person, with red lips and a jesters hat, to offer the concept of aging, i imagine. Musically speaking, it is a group of totally forgettable powerpop tracks...i just heard the full album, and can't remember any of the tracks. I guess All These Years is the most like Big Star of the bunch.

Stand Out Track: All These Years

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