Today’s episode of my studio-blog is about Raezor / Sugar Cane Studios in Wandsworth.
Folk innovators, blues legends and The Jackal.
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Back For More is a patchy album but that’s a highlight, as is Ass In Gear which I think is inspired by Dave Kelly’s former bandmate Tex Comer.
In 1991 TBB were invited to support Dire Straits on the European leg of their world tour – obviously this was stadiums and enormodomes and the biggest audiences they ever had. With this in mind Fat City was a genuine crack at the big-time, and though it didn’t get anywhere near that, the tour is regarded by DK as the high point of his career.
They went back to basics with their next album Homage, an album of straight blues/R&B covers.
I remember watching the clip in the OP back when it was on TV and the way people come and talk to you just when a good bit comes on. Back then it would be Bowie doing Starman on TOTP or equivalent.
These days, it’s the final Chase. After 50 minutes of tranquility, it is that exact point – the two minutes the show builds up to – that an urgent lift somewhere is needed. Or, as what happened yesterday, when the largely peaceful coexistence of the household’s cat and dog erupts into full scale nuclear war in the area of carpet between me and Bradley Walsh.
Marvellous, as per.
I’m now going to listen to my Ronny Jordan albums for the first time in years.
The Blues Band timed their birth well, as they were able to slot so well into the tail-end of pub rock, even as punk was on the rise, as slickly paced blooze’n’harp fumes were just what sweaty punters needed. I saw them around the time “Bootleg” came out, at some sticky carpet bar in West London, and they were fabulous. And, if Paul Jones could be a bit Aldi Mick Jagger at times, Dave Kelly gave balance with a bit more “ gravel-tas “.
Re Gerry Conway, pedants might say the later Fairport Convention drummer, maybe adding Cat Stevens to his then accomplishments. He and McShee have been married for decades. Dreadful drummer, IMHO, despite his accolades and impressive cv.
PJ is, and always has been, an absolute blues nerd. His singing is a bit overly theatrical at times – hardly surprising when he was doing musicals at the time – but his harp-playing was, and is, quite extraordinarily good. You’re right about DK – the balance works very well – they are still going out as a very entertaining duo post-Blues Band, the Odd Couple of British Blues. (Kelly is deffo Walter Matthau, btw)