The foetid stenchwaves of Dingwalls almost reach your nostrils nearly fifty years on!
The Pirates - pub-rocky continuation of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, as in "Shakin' All Over"
The rendition here (at 5.48 mins in) of that imperishable classic (the first really great English rock'n'roll song?) is a lot less spiky and skeletal than the original record.
But then it's a different guitarist: here, in Dingwalls, in 1977, it's the highly regarded Mick Green, an avowed influence on Wilko Johnson.
The original guitarists were Alan Caddy (rhythm - so he must be responsible for that chopping crystalline riff) and Joe Meretti (lead - the swashbuckling flourishes)
With JK&tP, I have never thought to go further with them than "Shakin' All Over". This is pretty good in the same vein.
The Pirates were almost successful for a moment there in the pub-rocky / punky interregnum
I just listened to this - their second album - almost because of the cover more than anything
To be filed, perhaps, alongside Nine Below Zero
Good Lord, what was the singer thinking with these trousers....
A fairly faithful cover of "Shakin'" by The Guess Who
EverGreen
Talking about Mick Green from about 2.58
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