Members csm Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Just heard, via Facebook, from Kevin Allen (aka Dee Praved), the bass player in my punk-era band, Blast Furnace & The Heatwaves, and he sent me some old pix of the band which I haven't seen since I was a mere toddler. Cheeses, I can't believe I was ever that young ... Or that thin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 ok.....now without further ado, which one is the young you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted February 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Hah. I'm the one with the curly hair and shades. Top right-hand corner in the set of live shots, foreground in the (heavily-posed post-Ramones gritty-urban-vibe) group shot. The guitar you can't really see, BTW, was a 1962 SG Jr I SERIOUSLY wish I still owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members =JL= Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Guess that ages me too - that's how I remember you looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 jeans with cuffs........love it! Cool pix and good memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted February 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 IIRC, the live shots were from a gig at The Nashville Room in Hammersmith (I remember those curtains) and the group shot was taken near The Clash's old 'Rehearsal Rehearsals' building in Camden. The Nashville, incidentally, was the place where the Pistols opened for Joe Strummer's band The 101ers ... at that gig Joe saw the future, left the his band and joined Mick and Paul in The Clash. And the amp you can't see in my live pic was a fabulous and stupendously battered old piggyback AC30 which I got from The Count Bishops' Johnny Guitar (later in Dr Feelgood and, even later, in the late 80s/early 90s edition of my band) and SERIOUSLY wish I still had ... See, the foolishness of youth in action. I had an amazing rig and didn't appreciate it enough to keep it ... let that be a lesson to us all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 I had interesting stuff that I let go too in my teens and twenties....amps, guitars, women, cars,....there was always something I wanted more. Mostly that stuffs worth more now...apart from some of the women that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members metalheadUK Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 You all look scary. I musn't let my Mum see these pics....she wont let me play with you anymore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members o.versteer Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Skid Marx is frankly an awesome stage name. Much respect. Did you come up with them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 The young CSM kind of reminds me of....... So did CSM pull a Michael Jackson by starting off a black man and end up as, soemthing else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members humbuckerstrat Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Do you have a problem with your back, csm? Just curious:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 My early pictures are scary. REAL scary. I wont do that to y'all by posting ghem. Charles, I knew which one was you the second I saw the pic. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WildWill Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Up there next to Skid Marx, eh? Haha cool pictures, man. Seriously cool. I bet there are some great memories there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aenemated Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 nice fro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ferdinandstrat Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Chuck, love, these pics are nothing close to embarassing. Also, is that the SG you were talking about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EllenGtrGrl Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 I had interesting stuff that I let go too in my teens and twenties....amps, guitars, women, cars,....there was always something I wanted more. Mostly that stuffs worth more now...apart from some of the women that is. I know the feeling intimately guys. There are some guitars, and a couple of amps that I could kick myself nowadays, for getting rid of. But you know the impatient mindset we have when we're young and boneheaded. For me, it would have to be: 1. Original run Charvel Surfcaster - what was I thinking!? Of course it sounded kind of shrill and nasal. I was playing it through a Hiwatt Custom 100!!! Duh!! Oh how I miss the neck on that thing, and the cool shades of Rickenbacker meets Fender Jazzmaster/Jaguar look. Get another one? You ever see what they're going for on eBay? 2. First version Gibson Howard Roberts Fusion - I needed a change in my sound? Why did I go so far as to sell that guitar, to do so? Get another one? They're hard to find, and almost as expensive as the ones being made nowadays (well over $2000). 3. '62 Blonde Fender Tremolux, with matching 2x12 cab - sure it's not a metal amp. Duh!!! But it sounds killer for doing dirty sounding blues, and indie stuff (the lead guitarist for Teenage Fanclub used to use a Tremolux). And, being a 20 watt head, it wasn't deafening, if you decided to get your dirt the old fashion way - by turning it up. 4. Marshall Artist head - it sounded like crap at low volume (thin and shrill like most 80s Marshalls). But, turn it up, and enter the land of "oh my!!" I only got rid of that amp, because at the volumes I ran it at (Gain on 10, Master typically at 6 or higher), it was so loud, that I was killing the other band members on the dinky little bar stages we played on. Oh, if only attenuators had been more common back in the early 90s. :facepalm::facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cymro#1 Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Did you use earplugs back then........any T now?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted February 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Do you have a problem with your back, csm? Just curious:confused: Yes. A combination of typist's slump and guitarist's slouch, exacerbated by old age and decades of crap posture ... but yeah, my back is rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted February 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Skid Marx is frankly an awesome stage name. Much respect. Did you come up with them? Yep -- and he was the ORIGINAL Skid Marx, too. Accept no substitute. We all took 'punk names' -- Blast Furnace, Skid Marx, Blitz Krieger, Dee Praved, Tim Pani -- because, it was 1977 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cymro#1 Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Did you ever come across a Welsh band in late 60s early 70s called Morris Minor and the Breakdowns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted February 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 ^^^^ I think I vaguely remember the name from some gig ads, but never actually saw the band. Did they make any records? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cymro#1 Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Yes they did. Nothing mega mind you. I'm in a band now with the bass player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cymro#1 Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 Called......Tom Cat and the howlers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted February 21, 2010 Author Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 My old band's original drummer's nom de punk was Tom Tom ... before he was replaced by Tim Pani ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members twotimingpete Posted February 21, 2010 Members Share Posted February 21, 2010 they don't make pants like that anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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