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

[Jez Dacombe]

Hi,
It's been bugging me since I sent that last e-mail and it's suddenly sprung
into my brain.
I was thinking of  Turbo not Tank.
(Both begin with T and are related to travel !)
Jez

----- Original Message -----
From: J D <Jeremy at dacombe.fsnet.co.uk>
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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Damned by the curse of Damned (was Re: Greasy Truckers
Party 2001)


> 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>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> 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
> >
>