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70’s Instrumentals..classically influenced
Lies our teachers taught us…. My religious education teacher told us that anyone who had taken LSD could never become a used care salesman, the logic being that they would have seen cars just melt under the influence of hallucinogenic … Continue reading
The Clash ‘Sort it Out’
November 1978, 10 young men stuck in a concrete block on the outskirts of a midlands city. Trent Polytechnic seemed far removed from the dreaming spires. Many of my new companions departed for the big city every day to do … Continue reading
Happy Birthday
Yes it’s time to celebrate. The future is past is three years old or possibly five. Its complicated. I first started this site 5 years ago but I wrote just one post and then left it for a couple of … Continue reading
The Three Record Rule and Dr Feelgood
It’s a sad but true fact that almost every artist has a sell by date. The rule I usually live by is that no one needs more than 3 CDs from any one artist, once you’ve got three that’s enough, … Continue reading
Posted in DR feelgood, punk rock, rock music
Tagged 1970's, 70's biography, 70's music, band reformations, Britain, CDs, culture, DR feelgood, gigs, memoir, punk, punk rock, record producers, rock music
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Don’t Dictate
One of the things that comes up time and time again when researching the early days of punk is the resourceful nature of virtually all of the protagonists. Whether it was Steve Jones nicking enough equipment to equip the Sex … Continue reading
Posted in memories of 70s, punk rock, rock music
Tagged band reformations, culture, drums, gigs, pauline Murray, penetration, punk, rock music
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Matty Groves
A holiday, a holiday And the first one of the year Lord Donald’s wife came into the church The gospel for to hear And when the meeting it was done She cast her eyes about And there she saw little … Continue reading
If it ain’t Stiff…
The other day I read the news that apparently Sainsbury’s, the well-loved supermarket chain, is about to start a record label. That probably says more about the state of modern music than anything else. In the 70’s the business was … Continue reading
Posted in DR feelgood, memories of 70s, punk rock, rock music
Tagged 1970's, 70's biography, 70's music, culture, gigs, Hippies, pub rock, punk rock, rock music, vinyl
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Three from the States
As rock music was fermenting nicely in Britain the real quality was still coming from the States. They had had a couple of years head start on us, they were older, probably cleverer and had better teeth. There’s still a … Continue reading
Posted in memories of 70s, punk rock, rock music
Tagged america, culture, drums, funk, memoir, punk, richard hell, richard hell and the voidoids, rock music, talking heads, vinyl
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Hey Rock and Roll
By the mid 70’s rock was all of twenty years old, it had travelled from Bill Hayley performing ‘Rock around the Clock’ way past Hawkwind and ‘ Silver Machine’. The 60’s had been very forward looking, every few months … Continue reading
Posted in memories of 70s, rock and roll, rock music
Tagged america, culture, drums, memoir, pop music, showaddywaddy, television
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