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Bring me the Head of Jerry Garcia (MP3 album)
10 MP3 Songs in this album (40:42) !
Related styles: COUNTRY: Alt-Country, ROCK: Americana
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BIOGRAPHY
AUTUMN 1975
The band is formed in Newcastle by Pat Rafferty and Tony Wadsworth. First gig is the University Fine Art Dept Xmas Party. Still without a name, inspiration comes from Bogart''s “Key Largo” - “I’m looking for a couple of young bucks in fancy shirts who busted out of prison”.
SUMMER 1976
Band is instantly popular. John Glynn moves to London and joins proto punks ‘X Ray Spex’. His replacement is Archie Brown, sax player and songwriter with local band ‘Pylon’. Band starts playing Monday nights at the “Cooperage” which is sold out for the next two years. Summer ’77 Tim Wilder is replaced by Seb Shelton.
Band records its first single “Get your feet back on the Ground” which becomes single of the week in ‘Sounds’. Summer ’78 band moves to London and signs to Tom Watkins, later to manage ‘Pet Shop Boys’, ‘Bros’ and ‘East 17’.
SPRING 1979
Steve Brooks quits Spring ’79 to become a dragonfly expert at the Natural History Museum, and is replaced by Geoff Lincoln. Seb Sheldon dons a mohair suit and joins ‘Secret Affair’ with whom he has a couple of hit singles and a hit album. He subsequently exchanges his suit for torn dungarees and joins Kevin Rowland in ‘Dexies Midnight Runners’, has a worldwide hit with ‘Come on Eileen’ and hit album ‘Too Rye Aye’. He is replaced by Geoff Rich, now with ‘Status Quo’.
Archie becomes lead vocalist and another sax player is brought in, Dave Winthrop formerly of ‘Supertramp’ and ‘Chicken Shack’. By the summer of ’79 Thatcher is Prime Minister, Pat is not seeing eye to eye with Tom Watkins, Archie is “upset” and forms a new group. Tony is biding his time. The band’s latest gig is Cirencester Agricultural College in July ’79 supporting ‘Slade’.
SUMMER 1985
Summer ’79 Pat returns to Newcastle to work as a musician in a theatre company. He then joins ‘Arthur 2 Stroke and the Chart Commandos’, then ‘Dust on the Needle’ and ‘The Mick Whitaker Band’. The bass in all these is provided by Ian Thompson. Tony works briefly in ‘The Savoys’ with Paul Martinez (Robert Plant Band) and Pick Withers (‘Dire Straits’) but quickly starts his meteoric rise in the music business working for ‘Logo’, ‘RCA’, and ‘EMI’, which culminates in him becoming MD for ‘Capitol’ and ‘Parlaphone’ UK.
Archie forms the ‘Upset’, has one single and is approached by Kevin Rowlandless Dexies Midnight Runners. He joins the band as singer, records one album under the name ‘The Bureau’ and tours America with ‘The Pretenders’. They have two hit singles in Australia. The band split and Archie joins forces with Dave Cairns formerly of ‘Secret Affair’ and they form ‘The Flag’. They record one album for ‘Skotti Bros’ in the USA.
In the summer of ’85 Pat, Archie and Tony meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and the following day meet to record on a portastudio. The sound is instant and during Autumn ’85 and spring ’86 ‘Bring me the Head of Jerry Garcia’ is recorded at Elephant Studio in London. Ian Thompson and Geoff Lincoln provide bass, and Ray Laidlaw and Tony Cook drums.
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