h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I've been in a humumgous amount of now dead bands.

My first band was 'Three Guitars Clash' - there were three of us, all of us *played* guitars and we had a clash songbook.

Then I discovered various strange substances and played in 'The Blossom Children' at college - kinda free form - our best tune was playing the riff to Bily Bragg's "The Saturday Boy" at quarter-speed for about ten minutes while a fat guy called Tony in a toga intoned his errm poetry over the top.

Then a covers band "Maim That Tune" - pretty self-explanatory really.

Sang in a huge hippy band "Peacenik The Leaf" which swelled some times to include strings, brass, backing singers etc. Highlight was when we did 'Freebird' by Skynyrd and the lead guitarist played the solo with a rubber chicken with a slide taped to its back.

Then in London after I dropped out of Uni I was in a band "The Abridged Introduction To The Twelfth Book Of Joshua" which started out with good intentions of actually writing songs and stuff (well, we wrote ONE) but ended up doing yet more covers. We weren't particularly good, but we did have a sofa that we brought on stage with us. During "Comfortably Numb" the guitarist would sit on one side for his big solo while I sat reading the paper. Boy, did we rock. Boy replies - not really.

Last proper band was "Collision" and we wrote all our own stuff, cut an LP, played a lot around Stoke, Manchester, Sheffield etc. then split up a year later when the drummer started to wear a suit and got himself a real job. We had two of the biggest setbacks in any band career - (i) one of our number was a great mate and completely tuneless and (ii) the soul crushing awfulness of spending 90% of the time supporting other bands without headlining finally took its toll on us. Lame trivia note - the Fairlight synth that we used for doing some samples on our LP had previously been used for (a) the plate-smashing bits of Kate Bush's "Babooshka" and (b) [allegedly - according to the producer] some of the sound-effects used on a certain "Restaurant At The End Of The Universe" radio comedy LP.

That's it, apart from the odd solo LP here and there since then. Pretty much a life wasted on dead bands, but I wouldn't have had it any other way

Fairfield Convention and the Disciples of Sid Barret

1987-1989 in Teeside. Played "folk and crap". My husband was originally Alexander McKenzie who joined The Barley Crush Band so he had to became Mercedes McCambridge instead. The other members of the band were Weevil Pericles and Bill Froog.
Their biggest hit was "I can drink more than my girlfriend, the '89 remix".

Oh dear my husband's found an old "leaflet" they made up and is reading the details to me..we'll be playing the "Minds out of Time" tape next...

Are Status Quo still playing? Do they sound the same?
Lil

The Quo are an undead band. Pretty much fits in with the Halloween vibe
As far as I know they are now Rossi, Parfitt and a load of mulleted session guys. They tried to sue BBC Radio One into playing their records and lost the case rather embarassingly. They don't rock as well as they used to, I'm afraid, IMHO most of their later stuff veers into 'Margherita Time' territory more than 'Again Again' etc.

I lived in England during the 70's and have always wondered what happened to bands and people who then dominated Top of the Pops.

How about Slade? Sparks? Has Cliff Richard begun to age yet?

Lil

The omnipotent 'Deity' formed in September 1995 with the truly celestial line-up of Adam Dodd on keyboard, Rupert Hill on guitar, Dave Molan on bass, Alex Burghart on drums and ... there may have been a drummer but I forget. They played a memorable one song gig for Rupert's sister in his bedroom just before Xmas 1995 and then went their separate ways.

Looks like this won't get updated but I'll add my komments regardless

I was in a band called Black Rose. Deciding on a name was the most we ever did (Hell Awaits, a name stolen from top band Slayer, was the stand-in name for a while). Drummer didn't have a drum-kit. One guitarist lived too far away, the other was more concerned with skating than playing (at the time - I think he's getting damn good now). And there's me with my bass - could only play two songs, and they weren't even ours.
The guitarists had written a riff between them. The nearest we got to our own song. It wasn't a good one and the other guy had even forgotten it. It was terribly apathetic. I'd love to get back up with that skating guitarist but I think he's still a bit on the apathetic side. Come to think of it, so am I *^_^*

Blind Faith. A major band, but never given the chance to fulfil their promise. Sadly defunct for over 30 years now, they need their tribute paid.

I had written a guide entry about these chaps, but it is just, frankly, terrible.

http://angelfire.com/wi/blindfaith/index.html