OK, so this is my first (and maybe last!) blog'. Who knows where it'll go?
The Blog' will kinda concentrate on the things I enjoy the most, which if you haven't guessed already, is rockabilly and hot rods. Oh, and other 50's cars and British motorbikes, and better include early country music, too. Oh yeah, and not forgetting guitars and my hopeless attempts at learning to play. Did I mention 50's pin-up art? No? OK, that as well...... And finally, West Ham United, also known as The Hammers. Well, we've all got a cross to bear!
Intro'
I've been in to the 50's rock n roll/rockabilly scene since the mid 1970's - 3 or 4 years before the so called "rockabilly revival". I got in to it all via my old man, who is still a big Jerry Lee Lewis fan and he (my dad, not Jerry Lee) used to take me out to a few pubs where music was played, even though I was only in my mid teens. Ya see? It really is down to the parenting!
On my 16th birthday, my dad said he'd take me to a local pub which he said had "Be Bop A Lula" on the jukebox. Can't honestly say that meant anything to me at the time, but once we got to the pub (The Crown and Sceptre, Feltham) and I played it.......Wow! I ended up flipping between Lula and the flipside, Say Mama (it was a repro 45) until the landlord came over and unplugged the jukebox!
So, that set the scene for a lifetime of Gene Vincent. A couple of months later I left school, got a job and with my first pay packet (£20.00) bought 'The Best of Gene Vincent Vol 1'. I was hooked.
Remember that LP really well Kev. It was my 1st Gene LP & it really floored me. The tracks with Cliff G on guitar take you to another world. Set a standard for all others to follow.
ReplyDeleteYeah, fantastic album. Got this one, then volume 2. A few weeks later got 'The King of Fools' LP (EMI Starline, from memory) and it was like a kick in the guts when it told me Gene had actually died 5 years earlier
ReplyDeleteMy first GV album too circa 70, fifteen of yer Ingurlisch bobs (made in Wales natch)at Cob Records Porthmadog, still got the tag on the lp, also got the vol 2 with the great red cover and a snazzy leather bedecked Huge Ene,then got all those cool GV story lps on French EMi that Monsieur G Collange put out,kept em all cept vol 1, as you know I`m a Meek man not a Galluper
ReplyDeleteNeat blog me auld `ammertime, as your missus loves me to say - Fab-luss Flip
Thanks Flipper.......wassup with Shaun's blog'? Puter run out of electricity?
ReplyDeleteSquirrels attacked Cwm Rocabili broadbeanband apparently but I reckon once world cup is over (that`s the whole tournament not when the over the border big jessies come home early)I reckon it will mysteriously reappear with Maradona like zaniness
ReplyDeleteMind u I had a big malware attack few months back that took weeks for my techie to sort out,he appears in a bigger car each time
Any particular reason you find Rod Pyke Hot then???
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