A job in a reformed Episode Six lasted four months before I joined Glass Menagerie, a trio managed by Chas chandler. We supported john Mayall for a trek round europe, but Chas has just signed Slade and we were absorbed into Alan Bown's band, very jazzy. I was vocalist, but was sacked as his investors wanted Alan, a trumpeter, to be the star. I was so disillusioned that I quit the road for a while. Then I called Ken Pitt, who managed Crispian St Peters as well as David Bowie. He got a contract with Atlantic through Dave Dee, but all that resulted were two unreleased singles - as "Dangerfield". The second of these, a disco arrangement of 'Oh Pretty Woman', was due out one Friday, and a TV spot was announced in the TV Times, but it went instead to plug 'She's My Lady' by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.
By this time - 1974 - I was writing and, with Dave Sutch's blessing, had a band called The Original Savages. Matthew Fisher produced six tracks which he took to Ian Hunter. One number was about catching alligators in a delta swamp - very Tony Joe White - but Ian reckoned that that was off the mark for a boy from the Black country.
He put me right about songwriting, and I formed a group called Bullet, real heavy rock stuff, and tried Stigwood again, but he was forever in the States. So I kept the wolf from the door with Rock 'n' Roll stuff I knew inside out with the Wild Angels and groups like that.
Yet, as it is with everything that's happened - or not happened - for me, I've never felt any private angst about what might have been, and I'll probably carry on playing until I drop.
By this time -
He put me right about songwriting, and I formed a group called Bullet, real heavy rock stuff, and tried Stigwood again, but he was forever in the States. So I kept the wolf from the door with Rock 'n' Roll stuff I knew inside out with the Wild Angels and groups like that.
Yet, as it is with everything that's happened -
Interview taken from Record Collector
September 1999, no 241.
September 1999, no 241.
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