[1] After playing with leading Cincinnati musicians, such as Bootsy Collins, Slim Harpo, H-Bomb Ferguson and Albert Washington, in the early 1960s, he went to San Francisco in 1969 to join John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Solomon Burke, and experimental group Elephant's Memory.
[1] Moving to England in 1971, he founded Roogalator,[2] one of the first signings by the fledgling Stiff Records, as well as appearing regularly with Rocket 88,[1] the back-to-the-roots boogie-woogie band which included Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, Ian Stewart, Jack Bruce and many other leading UK-based musicians.
They disbanded when Adler returned to the US in 1990,[1] although Brunning would later revive the band with a new line-up.
[3] A major blues reissue label fell for the ploy, and issued an album supposedly by Gilmore, when it was simply the work of Adler.
[3] Eventually the hoax was discovered and the album was withdrawn, although copies circulated for years afterwards on a white label.