Crawler was a British heavy rock band formed in the late 1970s as an offshoot of Back Street Crawler,^[1] following the death of guitarist, Paul Kossoff.

Crawler may be more familiar to you as Back Street Crawler. They issued two albums on Atco Records under the Back Street Crawler name. They then shortened their name to just Crawler and issued two more albums on Epic Records. Synonyms for crawler at Thesaurus.com with free online thesaurus, antonyms, and definitions. Find descriptive alternatives for crawler.

History[edit]

Following the passing of founding member Paul Kossoff, the remaining members of the band Back Street Crawler (John 'Rabbit' Bundrick, Tony Braunagel, Terry Wilson and Terry Wilson-Slesser) decided that it would be best to move on to both another record label and another manager. There is and was a history of problems with the band members obtaining record and publishing royalties from the original manager of Paul Kossoff.

Atlantic Records' Ahmet Ertegun had wanted to replace Paul Kossoff with Mick Taylor, who had left the Rolling Stones, however Taylor did not want to replace a musician who had died. Back Street Crawler bassist Terry Wilson had dinner with ex-Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green in London to find out whether Peter's reclusive and unusual lifestyle had changed his mind about wanting to play or be in the music business. Green was not ready to return to the stage and therefore turned-down Crawler's offer. The band then recruited former If guitarist Geoff Whitehorn. The band was then dropped by Atlantic Records, due to Whitehorn's then relative obscurity.

The band switched management to a young American named Abe Hoch, who was working at Swan Song Records at the time with Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant. Hoch had close ties with Epic/CBS Records and obtained an offer from them. Band members then shortened the band name to Crawler.

Crawler initially toured the UK as part of a package tour which included label mates Boxer and Moon. Their debut album, Crawler, did well in the US, thanks to airplay of the track 'Stone Cold Sober', on FM radio stations. The band concentrated on the American market. Working with producer Gary Lyons, they released a second album, Snake, Rattle & Roll.

An exhaustive series of live performances saw Crawler as the support band for Robin Trower, Cheap Trick, and Foreigner, and a 54-date tour across the US as support band for Kansas. At the end of a US tour in December 1978, keyboard player John 'Rabbit' Bundrick left to work with The Who. The band folded soon afterwards.

Crawler had limited commercial success but charted the single 'Stone Cold Sober' which reached a peak on Billboard Hot 100 at number 65 in November 1977.

In recent years, a number of live albums, including Snakebite (2001) and Pastime Dreamer (2003), recorded during tours in 1977 and 1978, have been released from John Bundrick's private collection of recordings.

Post-Crawler[edit]

After the dissolution of the band, Terry Wilson-Slesser went on to join Charlie He also provided backing vocals on Def Leppard's Pyromania album. In 1984, Wilson-Slesser acted as an offstage singer for the Michael Schenker Group, performing on a European and Japanese tour.

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Geoff Whitehorn has since played with Maggie Bell, Elkie Brooks, Roger Chapman's band Shortlist, Bad Company and Roger Waters. He has also released several solo albums including Geoff Who? and Big In Gravesend. In the 1990s, the guitarist teamed up with ex-Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers. In 1991, he joined Procol Harum and is now their longest serving guitarist. He appears on their DVDs at Union Chapel and with a Danish symphony orchestra in Ledrebourg. The popular video site also has great footage of his Hyde Park concert playing lead for the Who's Quadrophenia, Rockpalast with Paul Rogers and Never the Bride & the British Rock Symphony playing Stairway to Heaven. There is also one great Crawler video of Stone Cold Sober. Epicmafia doctor.

Bassist Terry Wilson has since worked with Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins, Eric Burdon, Little Whisper & The Rumor, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps (producing as well as being a principal songwriter) The Stephen Bruton Band, Bill Champlin, L.A.'s Pockets rhythm and blues band, Delbert McClinton and Gary Nicholson. He has also contributed to the sessions for John Martyn, Stephen Bruton, Darling Cruel's 1993 album Passion Crimes and Ana Popovic's Still Making History. As a songwriter, Wilson has had his songs covered by such artists as Eric Burdon, Maria Muldaur, Kathy Mattea, Tommy Castro, Paul Rodgers, Juice Newton, Teresa James and Tamara Champlin. Terry has also had several songs included in movie soundtracks, such as Michael with John Travolta and Holes.

Drummer Tony Braunagel went to on to work with Bette Midler, Rickie Lee Jones, Taj Mahal, Andy Fraser, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, John Martyn, John Mayall, Ian McNabb, Keb Mo, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, The Blues Brothers, Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps. He has also acted as a producer or co-producer, including records by Taj Mahal, Jodie Siegal, Curtis Salgato and Eric Burdon.^[2]

Albums[edit]

• 1977 - Crawler (Epic)
• 1978 - Snake, Rattle & Roll (Epic)
• 1997 - Pastime Dreamer (Live) (Red Steel; re-released 2003. Recorded 1977)
• 2001 - Snake Bite (Live) (Pilot; recorded 1978)
• 2002 - Crawler Live - Agora Club Ohio 1978 (Angel Air)^[3]

References[edit]

1. ^https://www.allmusic.com/artist/crawler-mn0000132770/biography
2. ^Soul Of A Man (2006)
3. ^According to noted reviewer Richie Unterberger, the record is '..journeyman bluesy British hard rock. By the standards of that genre, it has some pluses. Singer Terry Wilson-Slesser has the requisite husky, macho tones, yet, unlike most such frontmen, he doesn't overdo the histrionics. Well-traveled keyboardist John 'Rabbit' Bundrick gets into occasional imaginative electronics, particularly on the long track 'Blue Soul.' The band's a little more serious and downbeat in general than most of their like-minded competition from the period.' Review of Crawler Live: Agora Club 1978; www.allmusic.com.

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noun

• 1A thing that crawls or moves at a slow pace, especially an insect.

  ‘the light bulb was a magnet for moths and many-legged crawlers’

  • ‘All stages of the insect, except the crawler and the adult male, secrete a covering that lies over its dorsum for protection.’
  • ‘An insecticide can be used to kill crawlers once they are detected.’
  • ‘Contact insecticide sprays will not reach crawlers that have settled under old scales.’
  • ‘We're lucky we haven't seen any crawlers yet.’
  • ‘Mature female scales are viviparous and produce 2-3 crawlers per day, totaling 100-150 over the female's lifetime.’
  • ‘They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in such diverse modes of life as climbers, burrowers, crawlers, aquatic forms, and even gliding types.’
  • ‘With first graders on hands and knees, eyes peeled on the tarantula at hand, Trevino goes into his spiel on the life and times of spiders and other creepy crawlers.’
  • ‘He has worked on more than 300 Hollywood movies involving snakes, lizards, spiders, and other creepy crawlers.’
  • ‘While most of these creepy crawlers have beneficial characteristics, ticks truly deserve to be given a wide berth.’
  • ‘Young crawlers settle on the upper surface of immature leaves, causing galls to form on the under surface of the leaves.’
  • ‘I am not going into that pitch-black cave with all them creepy crawlers and who knows what else.’
  • ‘The night crawlers moved freely around them with their sounds echoing in the wilderness.’

  1. 1.1A tractor or other vehicle moving on an endless caterpillar track.
     ‘the crawlers move space shuttles to the launch pads’
     • ‘Table 4 gives examples of time needed to clear land using two different sizes of crawler tractors.’
     • ‘An example of a ‘group’ linked cost is the cost of providing crawler lanes for heavy vehicles.’
     • ‘The crawler lane is intended to be a safety feature.’
     • ‘It does not include any plans to close the crawler lane up the hill.’
     • ‘The surface of the road is to be replaced, and the crawler lane is to be closed and turned into a single lane road.’
     • ‘To avoid interfering with steel erection, the precast seating risers followed the steel at night, using the same crawler cranes.’
     • ‘The speed makes up for the energy difference between this method and dropping a heavy weight from a crawler crane's jib, and there is no flying debris.’
     • ‘Once he had separated the piece enough to get a chain around it, then a crawler crane came into play.’
     • ‘Eradicating the crawler lane would mean heavy lorries slowing down the traffic up Golden Hill.’
     • ‘They also back a series of road safety measures and traffic restrictions, including crawler lanes, realigning bends and traffic lights.’
     • ‘Contractors are also performing more lifts from outside the building where crawler cranes have greater mobility and stability.’
     • ‘Four fully hydraulic crawler cranes with a capacity of 80 kN operated the grabs.’
     • ‘The use of crawler cranes is increasing and may be required in some cases.’
     • ‘Fifty workers using five crawler cranes will be at the site six days a week.’
     • ‘Essex Crane, which serves contractors nationwide, owns 500 crawler cranes in its fleet.’
     • ‘Is it true that Caterpillar India is planning to roll out a new crawler tractor?’
     • ‘One of the most important aspects of new models of crawler dozers is the comfort of the operator.’
     • ‘The whole assembly was carried to the launch pad on a vehicle known as a crawler transporter.’
     • ‘The A59 in that section comprises two lanes plus a crawler lane for slow traffic going uphill.’

• 2Computing
  A program that systematically browses the World Wide Web in order to create an index of data.

  • ‘Search engine crawlers will crawl web pages periodically for updated contents.’
  • ‘Might search engines employing crawlers drop free listings altogether to concentrate on paid inclusion programs?’
  • ‘Wouldn't it be nice to be able to leave some code in your web site to tell the search engine spider crawlers to make your site number one?’
  • ‘Search engines allow keyword searches and use crawlers to locate sites or pages that match requests.’
  • ‘While the search crawlers will ultimately find you on their own, there is some merit in submitting your site manually.’

• 3British informal A person who behaves obsequiously in the hope of gaining favour.

  • ‘her pleading tone surprised herself, she was no crawler’

  sycophant, toady, lackey, flunkey, minion, stooge, kowtower, truckler, groveller, crawler, creep, fawner, flatterer, lickspittle, Uriah Heep, puppet, cat's paw, instrument, pawn, underling, hanger-on, camp follower, doormat, spaniel