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My hero was Alex Harvey and seeing as the Welsh have banned Delilah I think his band SAHB was so much better than old crooner TJ
He does look so rough abought the edges chatting to Bob
Did anyone else play Gangbang amongst others at full volume when your mum was away out ?
Remember this redmex?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpl_8N6647M
Next was the 1st album I heard of his, Au Suivant the Jacques Brel the original Next is worth a listen to
Growing up through the ‘60’s, I was aware of what was playing on the radio, but I can’t say I had ‘heroes’ as such, more music that made an impact. Thinking about it, having read an article about the album that many musicians consider the best and most influential of those made by Jethro Tull, and having designed a sleeve for an early single, ‘Witches Promise’, that I did for my CSE Art exam, Ian Anderson might be the closest. Seeing him on telly, wide-eyed and wild looking, standing on one leg playing the flute, there wasn’t really anyone else quite like him, playing such a varied type of music.
Aqualung is still an extraordinary album, fifty-odd years on it still socially revelant.
Love your work OP
One letter out, name comes from my '73 Sebring red MK1 Mexico bought when I was 19, if I'd put it in storage what would it be worth now ?
Probably about the same as you would've paid for the storage unit. Plus you would have deprived yourself and others of driving a lovely car. And could you have written Cotton Eye Joe if you were polishing the car every weekend? Eh? You would've deprived future generations of a country-dance masterpiece.
Ah Alex was indeed sensational.
Jacques Brel:
Puts me in mind too go Georges Brassens and another great "borrower" Jake Thackeray.
Ian Anderson and Tull were great. Me and my mates used to try and sneak out of the house wearing dressing gowns, greatcoats, whatever, to look cool. A couple of us lent Aqualung to our RE teacher. That got us a trip to the headmaster. Yes an awesome album.
I think my musical hero though was Zappa. He still is 50 years later. Well more than a musical hero really.
Talking of cars, my teenage music hero was sat in the passenger seat of a classic Mini when it hit a tree. I was gutted.
I was more of a Bowie fan but as I got older realised Marc Bolan was very talented and wrote some cracking tunes
Yeah, fantastic guitarist too, but was more into being a pop star. I got into Bowie a bit later.
(funny too, Bowie had a song title which was the plural of "hero" 😀 )
Freddie Mercury
Remember the day he passed
I was and still am in to all sorts. Chris Cornell is probably one of the standouts from my teenage years along with RATM, Otis Redding, Blackalicious, Kyuss and Jimi Hendrix. All for different reasons.
Mark Astronaut......
John Squire of the roses. Effortless cool. Tunes to die for a proper non macho guitar hero
Good shout.
Roses connection - my musical hero now,as opposed to when I was a kid is Aziz Ibrahim.
A true Manchester legend and one of Britain's best ever guitarists.
Lovely bloke too.
Mark E Smith
I had a few.
Jonny Rotten- what an absolute prick he turned out to be.
Roddy Radiation - remains a superb guitarist for his work in The Specials. His solo stuff ? Not so much.
Brian Setzer, IMHO one of the GOATS and totally under loved.
Hendrix, Jim Morrison no words needed.
Clapton.
Unfortunately once i was old enough and saw him live, plus learned how much of a bellend he is, the admiration diminished somewhat
Gary Numan.
I heard Are "Friends" Electric for the first time at a youth club disco in 1979.
I was awestruck by the analogue synth sound, the grittiness of the lyrics and Numan's vocal delivery.
I've been a fan ever since.
My parents however thought he was as a deviant and did their best to discourage my interest! And failed.
John Squire of the roses.
I was well beyond a teenager by then.. no more heroes, just a massive music fan.
My teenage Years (mid 80s to mid 90's) were a voyage of discovery in music covering a wide range of genres. Looking back, my small circle of friends were all interested in discovering music which was often not in, or on the outer edges of the charts, and also the good stuff (we felt) from previous generations.
For me it started with early hip hop (Street sounds Electro, GM Flash & the Furious 5, Run DMC, Beastie boys), then 60s Garage, Blues, RnB, Soul, Psychobilly, Ska, Two tone, Punk, Folk, Prog/ Psych rock, and Reggae, I also embraced some of the emerging music of my generation which you could probably loosely fit into genres such as Indie, Trip hop, Baggy, Rave, Ragga, Jungle and Grunge. I'm still on a musical discovery today and I've tried to lessen some of the musical snobbery I probably had as a teenager.
I guess musical heroes are those that made music that I thought was different, inspiring, provoked an emotional response, and sometimes changed perceptions. Also having a bit of an uncompromising F you attitude, making the music they wanted in the way they wanted irrespective of fame or fortune helped.
From the above some names off the top of my head (could probably add a fair few more )
Poison Ivy, Lux Interior, Link Wray, Sky Saxon, Joe Strummer, Billy Childish, Toots Hibbert, Prince Buster, Jerry Dammers, Ray Davies, Muddy Waters, Steve Marriot, Booker T, David Berman, PJ Harvey, Otis Redding, Hendrix, Dylan, Melle Mel, Weller, Richard Ashcroft, Eric B & Rakim, Liam Howlett. Bob Marley.
No one strums a Gretsch like Poison Ivy
being an 80's indie kid - Morrisey
that hasn't aged well!
still if you can separate the author (turns out he was a massive pr*ck after all) form the work the smiths still stand up
the album that many musicians consider the best and most influential of those made by Jethro Tull, and having designed a sleeve for an early single, ‘Witches Promise’, that I did for my CSE Art exam, Ian Anderson might be the closest. Seeing him on telly, wide-eyed and wild looking, standing on one leg playing the flute, there wasn’t really anyone else quite like him, playing such a varied type of music.
I love JT and still regularly listen to their music, but find Anderson a difficult person to like or respect.
Gary Numan.
I heard Are “Friends” Electric for the first time at a youth club disco in 1979.
I was awestruck by the analogue synth sound, the grittiness of the lyrics and Numan’s vocal delivery.
He told a story years ago about going into the studio to record a guitar album, but finding a synth, turned it on and it produced his trademark synth sound. The problem with this story is that the synth sound is very, very similar to Ultravox of that period and Billy Currie of Ultravox was playing as a session musician on that Tubeway Army album and later tour. Numan apparently was quite vocal about his liking of Ultravox and wore their t-shirts. Maybe he found his trademark sound independently, maybe not.