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

[Christian Mumford]

Carl trembled like an old woman and typed while casting an enchantment:

> 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! :)



I think Swindells has an aura and sheen of cosmopolitan cool in his lyrics, knowing the business and the 'high society' and the underworld alike. Like "Low Life Joe" or the one with the lyric about "an endless trail of Beer and cigarettes"...... and he even innuendo-like brags about being gay in some songs. Damn, I could be that cool! But I ain't gay.... YET!

Christian

NP: T.S.O.L. - "Beneath the Shadows"


> 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...; )....
> >
> 
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/

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