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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: The Bristols |
| Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:46:50 -0800 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, Stewart Mason <flamingo@t...> wrote:
> At 10:49 AM 1/14/2004 -0800, David Bash wrote:
> >Apparently The Bristols have an earlier disc which I'm going to seek out.
> >Does anyone know if the band is still together?
>
> Probably, since they appeared on a compilation within the last 18 months
or
> so called THE SYMPATHETIC SOUNDS OF TOE RAG on Sympathy for the Record
> Industry, a bunch of songs recorded at the newly fashionable Toe Rag
Studio
> in London, where most of the White Stripes' ELEPHANT was recorded. That's
> the studio with the "no equipment after 1963" dictum.
It states on the Damaged Goods website that The Bristols are a "Garage
supergroup formed by Toe Rag Studios boss Liam Watson"...so there you go!
> Given their sound and the Toe Rag association, I always assumed that Billy
> Childish had a hand in somewhere. Does he?
I can't find his name anywhere on the CD. Of course, this doesn't mean he
isn't involved.
Also, I noticed that Watson and Delsol did co-write a couple of songs on the
"Tune In..." CD, so it's not made up entirely of covers.
David
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