pub rock ⁽⁹⁾

A Tale Of The Four 'Johns'. A graceful bow and nod to the whole Pub Rock Scene from the 70's. With great respect to Lee 'John' Collinson (Lee Brilleaux) John Wilkinson (Wilko) John B Sparks (Sparko) John Martin (The Big Figure), all part of Essex Pub Rock/R&B band Dr Feelgood. I posted this back on 29th April of this year, but I am giving it a re-post in memory and respect to Wilko Johnson who sadly passed away on 21st…

I guess I was more into 'Metal/Punk' and 'Goth' type sounds back in the early part of the 80's, so perhaps missed this and maybe some of the Oi! sub-genre of the time, but hey! hindsight it's a wonderful thing and (for me) is worth revisiting... The track was actually produced by....Joe Strummer for a strange fee! As per the link to dangerousminds.net... "Instead of being paid cash for his production services, the Roosters’ manager arranged for Strummer to receive…

Three versions of the same song first by The Strangeloves, The Count Bishops and finally Bow Wow Wow.... The song 'I Want Candy' was originally recorded way back in 1965 by The Strangeloves, a band created by a New York based song writing team. They were: Strangely in the day they pretended to be brothers from a Sheep Farm in Australia, evidently their British Accents weren't much cop! I can only guess that the British and Australian 'invasions' of music…

The late and great Barrie Masters and the boys rockin' their hearts out at the Marquee in London 1976. Some gig by the sound of it and captures the bands live sound and sheer energy! None of the tracks are their own, they are all covers of old school rock and blues songs, but when you think about it how many punk bands like The Sex Pistols, The Rezillos even The Damned did covers. Eddie & The HotRods, Live at…