[kj] OT: The Damned (ollie)

[folk devil]

"By August rumours began to spread that the Damned were to re-form and rumours soon proved right when in September a gig was arranged at the Electric Ballroom. The band billed were Les Punks - a one-off gig maybe but this band should have been recorded. For those who don't know Les punks were Rat ondrums, Daveon vocals, the Captain on guitar and Lemmy on bass. The gig revitalised the Damned and they re(formed, armed with a contract from Chiswick Records. One difference, however - they called themselves the Doomed. Henry Badowski was brought in on bass initially but ex-Saints bassist Algy Ward got the full-time job. In November they went into the studio and recorded six tracks as the Doomed and a couple of others with Lemmy. Two of tracks, 'Love Song' and 'Burglar', were issued as a limited edition of 250 copies and given away at the Christmas gig at the Electric Ballroom. The Chiswick sessions for the next album were noisily interrupted when Lemmy, along with Philthy Phil Taylor and Fast Eddie Clarke turned up for a jam. One track, 'Ballroom Blitz', surfaced as the B-side of 'I just can't be happy today'."
 


Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:41:08 -0500
From: bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
To: gathering at misera.net
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: The Damned

You learn something new every day.

I'd like to submit this is a primary cause of confusion latecomers - we pick up CDs (or in my case, even cassettes!) and see thd "bonus tracks" not marked as such, think it's part of the standard LP, and think, "Oh, cool, Lemmy, et. al." were on this LP! So I was under the impression for the longest time that Machine Gin Etiquette as almost this super group LP with members of Motorhead and The Saints chiming in. I know Algy's story, but I had always thought Lemmy did more bass at that time for The Damned than just "Ballroom Blitz." 

Oh well.

-0liver

On 4/22/10 12:38 PM, folk devil wrote: 


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