[kj] Ski Patrol reissue with Coles artwork

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

Righto, thanks for the suggestions.  I've finally had time to listen to all this - really rather good.  (And slightly odd that they passed me by so thoroughly way back when.)  Guess I'll get some...


Cheers,


Jamie



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Very well put. Except whenever I try to describe them they always sound like a (very good) pub rock band,
and they were so much more than that. One of the best rhythm sections I've ever seen/heard. And singer Bill Carter

was both a superb guitarist and a great lyricist. He also had a thoroughly menacing stage presence, that

1000 yard stare thing going on. I still listen to their songs all the time but most of my love for them was
down to the live show - I rank them up there with Killing Joke and a few others as my all time favourite live band.

Just a classic power trio. But yes, go for Gun Shy and Good and Gone.



You get a vague idea here, them doing Sweet Water Pools live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWtuWU1KyFI


and two of my favourite tracks, Twin Cadillac Valentine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeGtlaizSzg


and Wild Blue Yonder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U2usL5TMkA



Unfortunately they blew it, or lost it, or something... signed to Warners, Bill (allegedly) had his head in a bag of coke,

plus they suffered the horror of the novelty hit - the song I Wanna Be A Flintstone, which is

otherwise a great song, got attached to that god awful Flintstones movie.


Funnily enough, just heard from a friend a few weeks ago that Bill Carter has come in from the
wilderness and is writing songs again...


n







On 28 January 2014 16:56, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:


Was a big fan of Screaming Blue Messiahs back in the day. First album, ,"Gun Shy," is the one to have, although the prior EP "Good and Gone" also has merit.  A very aggressive, muscular band; like a child of Dr. Feelgood and older brother to the Godfathers.



Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:50:48 +0100
From: 65snoopy at gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [kj] Ski Patrol reissue with Coles artwork


Oh man don't get me started!
At work right now but will wax lyrical about them later...




On 28 January 2014 14:21,  <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:

Screaming Blue Messiahs - don't think I ever heard them.


What should I listen to?


Jamie



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Just remembered/re-discovered why the Lowery name was so familiar:

"Going out on his own under the King Blank moniker, Lowery continued his wicked ways on the three-track Mouth Off, featuring the input of Screaming Blue Messiahs honcho Bill Carter, who produced and played on one song and co-wrote two. With the Messiahs backing him on the title track, Lowery seems newly dangerous..."


I had this EP only because the Messiahs were (and still are) one of my favourite bands, but I remember it being good.

Sigh, time to get busy on ebay I guess.




On 28 January 2014 09:39, bongo <humanhybrid666 at gmail.com> wrote:

i had King Blank on record, or maybe one of my first ever cd's...
cant remember, sold it ages ago...
checking it all out on youtube again now


=)





"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed indefinitely..."




On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Neil Perry <65snoopy at gmail.com> wrote:

I have a Ski Patrol 7" in a box somewhere, Cut I think. I remember the Ian Lowery group being OK,
sure I saw them live back in the day - no, I never realised it was the same guy. He died in 2001 apparently.





On 27 January 2014 23:08,  <jpwhkj at aol.com> wrote:

Wow!


That's excellent news.  I only properly got into the Joke in '83, and back in those pre-internet days it was a real journey of discovery.  For example, it took a while to discover that they'd released something before Wardance / Pssyche.  After that I found out about Red Beat and Ski Patrol, but it wasn't till 1988 that I managed to get a copy of a tape of Red Beat (and some while later that I found some vinyl at a record fair or 2nd hand shop)... but I never found any Ski Patrol.


Agent Orange sounds pretty cool (on the link below) and I didn't know that Jaz played synth for them.


Thanks for posting...


Jamie




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Can't remember if anyone else has mentioned this, probably..

http://www.skipatrolband.com/news.html
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