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I think Dave Stewart can't believe it.....or he's really, really gone

 

Gary Numan - prize t***.
I always hated that electronic music.
Guitar, bass, drums - no synth.

 

His hair was going north even at the time
of his breakthrough. Given in early Tubeway
Army days his hair was blonde, perhaps
a cautionary tale about persistent playing
with peroxide.

 

Such a limited spectrum you hear.
Doing fretless bass before Mick Karn
elevated it to the heights in Japan.
And Ced Sharpley bringing rock drummer
prowess before the Linn and 808 arrived.

 

I'm very one dimensional and narrow-minded

 

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If you're feeling brave you can watch the whole thing, but otherwise just stick to...

 

RIP Eddie Amoo

 

I've finally found some footage of The Damned at Bexhill with the back of my rapidly balding, huge ****ing head in it....At 0.28, if you look at the black speaker on the right of the stage, you'll see a tall bloke with an abnormally large head covered by thinning grey hair.

To the right of me is the tall, bouncy and beautiful Mrs B. Well, it was Valentine's Day and she's been very good recently.

 

Cannot hear the band playing (some bore
near the right is yapping on about steel
girders at some new football stadium) .

 

Yeah, he wouldn't let it lie.....devastatingly handsome, though.

 

I got a new Danny Rose, I got it good
Yes, I knew the DOF always would
I can't stop to mess around
I got to google a brand new LB in town

 

Another sleepless night with Youtube and my memories. I came up with this from a gig that I attended nearly 37 years ago.

You never know what you're going to get with The Damned. Bizarrely, that night Robert Fripp played with them......King Damnedson

This is the track that Fripp recorded in the studio with the band

 

One of only 2 songs that don't feature Dave or the Captain on the main vocal. Erstwhile guitarist/keyboardist and the only bloke with a bigger nose than Rat Scabies, Roman Jugg, does a great job on this B side. To my mind, it was better than the A side, Grimly Fiendish which was a big hit. It's got a Rolling Stones psychedelic feel to it.

Here's where they nicked it from...the Captain and his great mate Henry Badowski

 

Finally, talking of 'borrowing' other people's riffs, where did Nirvana get the intro to 'Come as you are' from?

Oh look, it's a complete rip-off of Paul Gray's 'Life goes on'. Tut-tut.

 

This one has always been quite interesting, being a
N way link rather than a simple X stole from Y.

I suspect that The Damned never went after Killing Joke
because 80s was not a commercial smash, nor were
the band being proclaimed as some new messiahs.

Both those things seem to have been applicable to
Come as you are + Nirvana, so they became "fair game" .

Did any of The Damned ever get a financial ripple through
due to KJ going after Nirvana ??

 

The Damned consulted lawyers back in the day and were advised not to pursue it. Partially due to finance and the ability of Cobain's estate to blow them out of the water and also the uncertainty of such things in a courtroom. I'm pretty sure that's what happened to KJ, who had a bit of a nerve in the first place and I'm a fan.

The Damned have never been rich and have lived a fairly hand to mouth existence for years. They turned down having the 40th Anniversary gig at The Royal Albert Hall filmed over an up-front cost of £10k. However, recent times have seen an upsurge in fortunes. More gigs are selling out. There's great interest in the new album and the back catalogue's selling well after 'Neat Neat Neat' featured on 'Baby Driver'. They own their own publishing for the early material after the previous owners went into liuidation and it's been a huge bonus.

Recently, there's been talk of having another crack at it. I heard an interview with the Captain last month saying just that and maybe talks on that led to Paul returning? I'm no expert on limitation on such things but if it's a runner, they should go for it. If The Holllies got 45% of 'Creep', the Damned should get a decent chunk of 'Come as you are', to my ear.

 

Nirvana are overhyped and overrated and most of their songs are tedious dirges.
Sue the b******s

 

What's the worst that could happen, Courtney Love murders them and makes it look like a suicide?