new Atomgods Youtube footage with Steve

[Steve Pond]

Hi Jon,

That track comes from the few months I was the bass player in the
Atomgods, my tenure coincided with the death of Calvert, Trev wrote
the song as a tribute to him, it was the first track we worked on
together outside ICU. 

We did work up a live set that was part "Wow!", this track and a few
odd covers (I remember NSU by Cream..) 

ooh.. I've found a rehearsal tape, we did:

Starfighter, NSU, Birds, Real One, Virgin Love, 13/35, Mountain Range,
Dolphins, Camden Town. That was probably about 40 mins and would have
been what we played at the Calvert tribute show at the Brixton Academy
with Hawkwind/Man etc.. 

I produced this recording, it was only a demo really, the drums were
done in the drummers garage with a stereo pair of microphones into a
cassette deck, and then we did everything else in a friends bedroom 8
track studio. Why was it never released? Your guess is as good as
mine, it came between "Wow!" and "History Re-Written" and
stylistically was probably representative of neither of them so it
floated free...?

Or maybe Trev couldn't find another bass player happy to pretend he
was in the Shangri-Las and do the high girly vocal! :o)  .. Trev & I
both love the Shangri-Las.. you don't need to be much of a detective
to work that one out!

But I agree, it's a classic Trev Track, nobody else can write stuff
like that, incidentally we sang it acoustically together at the
Calvert benefit in Herne Bay a couple of years ago..

-S.




On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:35:07 +0000, you sent through the ether:

>On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Elohim bearing 7's wrote:
>
>> Steve has unearthed a memoir-
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lafns0r4224
>>
>> OK Steve, I'm going to get on someone's computer......
>
> 	Blimey, absolutely do, that's a bloody excellent track in its own 
>right quite apart from its current emotional value. Why did that never get 
>released? Steve, are you out there? Tell us the story, man! Yours,
> 								   Jon