HW: Damned by the curse of Damned (was Re: Greasy Truckers Party 2001)

[J D]

Doug,
Is that the same Tank with Simon King & House from 1980-ish?
What about the obvious .... Lemmy playing on the Damned's Ballroom Blitz!
Jez


----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Pearson <jasret at MINDSPRING.COM>
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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 7:43 PM
Subject: HW: Damned by the curse of Damned (was Re: Greasy Truckers Party
2001)


> On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:51:57 +0100, Nick Medford
<nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK>
> wrote:
> >> >a good band with multiple Hawkwind connections
> >>
> >>Could it have been... pause.. roll of thunder.. The Damned?
> >
> >Yet another connection is that Lu Edmonds and Ginger Baker were both in
> >PiL, although I'm not sure if they overlapped.
>
> I was thinking about this subject, and I'm continually amazed at how RIFE
> the Damned are with Hawkwind connections (some mighty tenuous):
>
> * Didn't bassist Algy Ward (ex-Saints) play in the Atom Gods with Judge
> Trev?  Or at least in a band (Tank, maybe?) with Atom Gods members?
>
> * Bassist Paul Gray (ex-Eddie and the Hot Rods) played in UFO ... much
> earlier, Larry Wallis played in UFO ... Larry Wallis played on lots of
Mick
> Farren records ... Mick Farren wrote the lyrics to "Lost Johnny" and was
in
> the Deviants with Paul Rudolph ...
>
> * The second Damned album, 'Music For Pleasure', was produced by Nick
Mason
> of Pink Floyd.  After leaving Pink Floyd, original guitarist Syd Barrett
> played two gigs with Stars, featuring Twink on drums ... Twink played in
> the Pink Fairies with Paul Rudolph ...
>
> * During the break in their career (between 'Music for Pleasure'
> and 'Machine Gun Ettiquite'), Damned singer Dave Vanian joined the Doctors
> of Madess with Richard Strange ... Richard Strange appears on "Work",
> Martin Griffin's solo track on Hawkwind's 'Twice Upon A Time / Friends &
> Relations, vol.2' ...
>
> * Current Damned bassist (yes, they've had a lot of them) Patricia
Morrison
> used to play in the Sisters of Mercy (any connections through them that
I'm
> forgetting about?), and before that, in the Gun Club ...  Ward Dotson was
> one of the guitarists in the Gun Club (the other was Kid Congo Powers, who
> was also briefly in the Cramps) ... after the Gun Club, he was in the
> Pontiac Brothers ... one of the other guitarists in the Pontiac Brothers
> was Jon Wahl, who later formed Clawhammer and the Amadans ... the drummer
> for both those bands was/is Bob Lee, whose other band Backbiter backed
> Twink as the "LA Pink Fairies" ... long before that, Twink was in
> the "real" Pink Fairies with Paul Rudolph (told you some of these were
> tenuous!)
>
> * And, of course, they broke Michael Moorcock's guitar ...
>
> I couldn't figure out a way to connect the Damned to the Cure for the Andy
> Anderson connection.  The Sex Pistols will work, though, since before
> joining the Pistols, Sid Vicious made his "musical" debut as drummer in
> Siouxie and the Banshees, and Robert Smith of the Cure played guitar with
> Siouxie for a couple tours in the early 80s.
>
>     -Doug
>      jasret at mindspring.com
>