Swindells's "Fresh Blood" (was Re: HW: Alan Davey interview)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

I freely confess that I just followed Christian's example and  
downloaded the Swindell's "Fresh Blood" vinyl rip torrent from Pirate  
Bay, never having found any other way of hearing the album!  (Has it  
_ever_ been released on CD?  Shoot, were I Steve, I think I'd just  
bootleg myself!).

Of course, the most interesting part in some ways is comparing the  
"Shot Down in the Night" (always one of my fave Hawksongs) with the  
'Live '79 version; Swindells himself describes it as "waaay harder,  
more dramatic and simply better" :) and I can see why, though at the  
moment I'd say there are points in the song where I'd agree with  
that, and other points a wouldn't.  Cool track, though, and I am re- 
convinced I should do a cover some time :)).  And overall the album  
is pretty rocking.  I do feel like I hear a kind of latter-day Who  
vibe going on, so I can see how Swindells got the gig writing some  
tracks for Daltrey (though Daltrey was a fool not to cover SDitN  
because it totally rocks :)).

Who's Nic Potter (bass)? Not Alan Davey's erstwhile cousin Nigel  
Potter, surely?  (Perhaps a bit young at the time, and there's surely  
more than a few people named "N. Potter" in England :)).

Good album, and it's nice to have heard it at last, if only as a  
vinyl rip on MP3!  There's no reason someone shouldn't release it as  
a digital download, at least.  Might make Steve a few quid, after  
all! :)

Cheers,
Carl


On 16 Apr 2009, at 21:43 , mike coleman wrote:
> On 4/16/09, Christian Mumford <royalistradio at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> \Christian M
>> NP: Steve Swindells "Fresh Blood"
>
>
> The other LP is and was from my experience, quite rare, and in fact  
> I never
> got my hands on one, I only saw a test-press offered which was too  
> expensive
> at the time
> I'd be interested about it myself, regarding the music, and what  
> was it
> called "messages"??
> The players on Fresh Blood are  Steve, Huw, Simon and Nic  
> Potter.....Huw is
> on a few of Nic's albums......btw....
> ps-well I guess the BOCL hasn't caused me to go blind myself...; )....
>

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