Whatever Turns You On is the second and last studio album

Studio album

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 by blues-rock

Blues-rock

Blues rock is a hybrid musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the 12-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, piano, bass guitar and drum kit, with the electric guitar usually amplified through a...

 power trio

Power trio

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/supergroup

Supergroup (music)

In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....

 West, Bruce and Laing

West, Bruce and Laing

West, Bruce and Laing were a blues-rock power trio super-group consisting of Leslie West , Jack Bruce and Corky Laing . In 2009 West and Laing teamed up with Jack Bruce's son, Malcolm, and began touring as West, Bruce Jr...

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The album features a black-and-white comic strip

Comic strip

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 on its front and back covers depicting the alleged "turn-ons" of the band's members - Leslie West

Leslie West

Leslie West is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.-Biography:Originally named Leslie Weinstein, West was born in New York City, grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey, and in East Meadow, Forest Hills and Lawrence. After his parents divorced, he changed his surname to West...

's is food, Jack Bruce

Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...

's alcohol, and Corky Laing

Corky Laing

Laurence Gordon "Corky" Laing is a Canadian rock drummer, best known as a longtime member of pioneering American hard rock band Mountain...

's sex - as pursued by various poltergeists

Poltergeist

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 representing each of the three. The album's front cover drawing shows the three band members, each pictured with their poltergeist alter-egos.

Although not the hit that West, Bruce and Laing's debut album Why Dontcha was, Whatever Turns You On was a moderate success, reaching #87 on the Billboard

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 U.S. album chart.

Track listing

All selections written by Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing, except as noted.

Side one

1. "Backfire" (Bruce/Brown
   Pete Brown
   Peter Ronald Brown is an English performance poet and lyricist.Best known for his collaborations with Jack Bruce, Brown also worked with The Battered Ornaments, formed his own group Pete Brown & Piblokto!, and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan. Brown also writes film scores and formed a film...
   
   /West/Laing) - 2:57
2. "Token" - 5:18
3. "Sifting Sand" - 3:07
4. "November Song" - 5:55

Side two

1. "Rock 'n' Roll Machine" - 3:53
2. "Scotch Crotch" (Bruce/Brown/West/Laing) - 3:17
3. "Slow Blues" - 5:08
4. "Dirty Shoes" - 2:23
5. "Like a Plate" - 3:07

Personnel

• Leslie West: guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• Jack Bruce: bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
• Corky Laing: drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion