STN
sou'wester
Yeah, that was the band whose name I forgot
A rather dull bunch, if I remember correctly. All you need to know about them is they have a song called 'Joe Strummer's Wallet' and you'll have the measure of them.
Yeah, that was the band whose name I forgot
Milkshakes stuff was more in that direction - they appeared on the Stomping at the Klub Foot live LPs .
As STN is reluctant to namedrop here I have racked my brains and remembered that my mate Chris features on the cover of one of the Klub Foot LPs in the midst of a breathtakingly awesome stage dive. Unfortunately I haven't been able to google it tho.
Ha! I take a hugely dignified attitude to my many extremely significant celebrity chums, though I would like to point out that my mate Steve's mum is on the gatefold of Fireball by Deep Purple. She looks quite hot.
Totally off topic, but how amazing are "Rats' Revenge" by Rats and "Good Times" by Nobody's Children?
Is that the one that's based on Chop Suey Rock by The Instrumentals? I love the Instrumentals tune (despite it's rather dubious cultural references).'Can Your Pussy Do The Dog' by The Cramps
Dunno too much about later Cramps I'm afraid but between my girlfriend and I we've several volumes of Born Bad and I would highly recommend them....
A rather dull bunch, if I remember correctly. All you need to know about them is they have a song called 'Joe Strummer's Wallet' and you'll have the measure of them.
That was the Stingrays I think...
Dunno too much about later Cramps I'm afraid but between my girlfriend and I we've several volumes of Born Bad and I would highly recommend them. It's not just songs that the Cramps covered, as I understand it they are a kind of unofficial homage to the Cramps and some of the songs that are included are basically just "things that might well have influenced The Cramps". That's loads of good stuff basically (I'd say just start with Volume 1 and if you like it get some more), I mean, I like The Cramps well enough but I think that they suffer like any band that does loads of covers in homogenising loads of really quite diverse stuff. To me they are almost more interesting as archivists of loads of fascinating and crazy music that they virtually single-handedly brought back to the world's attention. I'm fascinated by the stories of their record finding trips and they have amassed a record collection that is truly amazing - unbelievable in fact.
Nice piece John! There was also a great album called 'Rockabilly Psychosis and The Garage Disease' which I'd recommend copping if you ever see it, lurid pink cover, as they do.