Eddie Chacon is one of music's most interesting people. He formed his first band, Fry By Nyte, in the mid '70s, at age 12, with his friends Cliff Burton and Mike Bordin, playing garage punk and putting on illegal shows at abandoned movie theaters in Castro Valley, California.
Burton would go on to play bass in Metallica and Bordin would become a founding member of Faith No More, but Chacon took a different path, moving to Los Angeles to work as a staff songwriter for CBS Songs.
He was mostly in charge of reworking old Beatles songs, one of which, a Prince-y funk take on "All You Need Is Love," convinced label boss Mickey Eisner to give the young Chacon a contract of his own.
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