Nearly as many as Bert Weedon.

Remind me, the name of Led Zeppelins 4th?

But when you tire of drums…..

Sure it wasn’t a stoat?

Another inventive drummer is Pete Thomas, the Attraction and many many other sessional slots: for Graham Parker, Squeeze and Lucinda Williams, amongst others.

The playing of Dave Mattacks has always been a delight. And, rather than on the frenzied fiddle fests his erstwhile band tend to get attention drawn to, it is more on a slow song he excels

And, lest you brand […]

Older and uglier, I didn’t catch Lloyd Cole until watching Lost Weekend on TOTP, and I knew he was good and proper. Hoovered up Rattlesnakes, after that 2nd album was imprinted. Becoming the father of the now o […]

The first version of IATW was called I Am The Pangolin, but it didn’t scan.

Thought I spotted you in the queue for the toilets.

Are you, tho’?

It looks and seems DGW has “gone” all electro home studio. Lockdown has done this to a number of artists: the great, IMHO, Alan Tyler, head honcho of the Rockingbirds, has done the same, all with a cheap analog […]

Karine’s album with Dave Milligan is a bloody delight.

Hank Wangford sides as a consultant in contraceptive medicine, but denies his songs have the same effect….

Edwin Starr lived in Polesworth, which made it handy for when Bruce Springsteen invited him onstage to sing “War etc etc ooof!” with him and the E Street Band at the NEC in 1999.

I think he did announcements rather than drive, but I stand to be corrected.

He was a regular in pub circuit band, Hogans Heroes, twenty odd years back, so whilst still jetting back to and fro Nashville. Always a great night out.

5. Star Trek

1. Mike Ermentraut in BB/BCS

This might appeal to some:

Remember telling my chums about them 37 years ago, before, pfaw, they were gone. I shall investigate.