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Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:21 pm

duncanparsons wrote:
Trashy punk band
!!!

Looks rather like a south-american pan-pipe band of the ilk that hangs around Reading or Peterborough or Manc Picadilly Gdns every so often!

Good call!

DSP

If we'd have sung our lyrics out in the street, we'd have been arrested!

Songs included "f**ked Up"
("Cos I'm so
fuckedupfuckedupfuckedupfuckedup
fuckedup in my... head...")
and the classic VD
("I got VD, VD,
I only wish I had Maggie Thatcher with me
I got VD...")

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:28 pm

Glassback wrote:Trashy punk band Heroes Of The Lonesome World circa 1979:
(me, 2nd from left)

And the obligatory brick wall shot, representing inner city urban decay.
(me 2nd from right)

- you've been a guitar-player once? Why didn't you maintain playing that kind of instrument?

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:30 pm

Didn't realise you actually had to be proficient in an instrument to play in a trash band.

Anyway, I can only do the basic chords - but it's all we needed.

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:34 pm

yeah - but my question is rather: once you can play the basic chords - isn't it then natural to maybe learn one or two more and then later maybe still one or two more and them maybe another few or something? - you get what I mean? - I just can't understand how you can suddenly just put it in the attic or whereever to never touch it again...

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:37 pm

I didn't - it was stolen.
I just never replaced it, and couldn't be bothered.

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:40 pm

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:06 pm

great thread
when i moved to japan i was forced to leave a great many things behind, shame i could have furnished this thread well

still i've found a few pictures:

this is around 1991 i think, the height of the acid-skiffle craze. i'm playing the tea chest bass, and clearly enjoying the adulation it afforded me. that 'instrument' was actually abandoned in amsterdam, it was pretty cumbersome - following a break in one of the coffee shops i was too f**ked to carry it and left it down an alleyway, the next day it was gone. i wasn't particularly sad. (note the rubber glove)

i'm not in this one. it's just the same street as above, to show the 'competition'.

and finally...about 10 years ago:

i'm far left, the only band i've ever made money from, we were briefly arthur brown's backing band (god of hell fire), actually not embarrassing so much as depraved looking oddballs - the apparent height difference of one member required no props whatsoever, perfect opportunity to stick some 1950's tv antennae on his head.

regards

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:10 pm

i think i saw you live

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:11 pm

vurt wrote:i think i saw you live

better than seeing him die!

Arfur Brahn eh?
One of my heroes.

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:14 pm

vurt wrote:i think i saw you live

who me? which incarnation, we certainly wouldn't have set off life detectors in amsterdam

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:17 pm

bizzarrely i do mean the skiffle band

91 would have been my 3/4 visit and i have vague memorys of some street sessions

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:18 pm

Glassback wrote:
vurt wrote:i think i saw you live
better than seeing him die!

Arfur Brahn eh?
One of my heroes.

almost could have! we actually did a few arthur brown gig's that had us wearing plastic bags on our heads

still can't believe we did that, whose f**king idea was that?

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:19 pm

vurt wrote:bizzarrely i do mean the skiffle band
91 would have been my 3/4 visit and i have vague memorys of some street sessions

not as vague as mine

first time i had skunk!

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:19 pm

arthurs?hmmm if i kill my band i dont have to pay em...

knockman · Post by **knockman** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:30 pm

vurt wrote:arthurs?hmmm if i kill my band i dont have to pay em...

probably, all the original crazy world members are no longer with us

.

he was leading a pretty hand to mouth existence at that time, happily things are much better for him now.

Embarrassing band photos