McCulloch’s “The Animals” (1995 group by Danny McCulloch)

Put together in the mid-90s by Danny McCulloch, one-time bassist with Eric Burdon and the Animals, these tracks are commonly released under The Animals name, arguably disinegenuously.

The tracks “Howlin’”, “Night Fighter”, “Bist Immer”, “Roadbuster”, “Frisco Queen”, “Love Fire”, “Paymaster” and “Stand Up” are non-Animals tracks penned by McCulloch (and sometimes others). The other tracks here are re-recordings of Animals or Eric Burdon and the Animals classics or covers by McCulloch and others.

The recordings appear on multiple releases, sometimes alongside actual tracks by The Animals or Eric Burdon, with varying degrees of subterfuge as to their origin.

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McCulloch also produced fake tracks from Mott the Hoople and Steppenwolf. After fans of the former alerted ex-singer Ian Hunter that tracks purporting to be him were being sold, Hunter sued K-Tel records (who had bought the tracks from McCulloch) and won.

However, many of the tracks had already been licensed on, and they sometimes crop up on various cheap compilations.

McCulloch's fake Steppenwolf tracks have been gathered under Steppenwolf ’97.

The Fake Mott the Hoople tracks do not appear to have been entered into MB.

In 2009 the Mott the Hoople and Steppenwolf tracks were official released as covers on iTunes under the artist name The Trybe.