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Post by zenmetal on Nov 1, 2008 19:42:09 GMT
Just wondering what the "trigger moment" was that got all the good people of the board into SAHB:
For me, I got hooked into The Tubes (bear with me here) in the late 70's - (and I still reckon there's a truckload of parallels between the two bands in terms of creativity and intent).
I was aware of Delilah (of course - it was on TOTP!) - but Boston Tea Party sealed the deal for me. I begged my parents to buy me "SAHB Stories", which they did, and a lifelong obsession started right there.
The Tubes were/are wonderful (still gigging!) - I'd urge anyone who's into SAHB to at least check them out (especially the early albums, up to Remote Control) - but of course, SAHB had the edge musically, performance-wise, and songwriting-wise.
Like many, I drifted away when SAHB split, but finding Zalvation in the racks at HMV in 06 re-ignited everything for me.
To this day - SAHB and The Tubes are my absolute favourite bands - in that order.
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Post by craigiedee on Nov 1, 2008 19:48:57 GMT
Great thread there ...
It was when a mate brought us bairns around to his parents house to hear a new album his brother had bought ... Jarvey is still around and as mad as a fish ...
It was NEXT ... it blew me away ... nothing before or nothing since has come close .. and i dont think ever will ... that was it ... Hooked
I thank you Jarvey and Tony Dunne
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Post by craigiedee on Nov 1, 2008 19:51:08 GMT
Its SAHB and The Bay City Rollers for me
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Post by penny on Nov 1, 2008 19:51:53 GMT
Hearing the Live album at my friends house, Framed in particular.
Never heard guitar like it before. As I have said on here before, I thought I was really grown up at 15 when I bought the 'Framed' album, it had been out a few years by then.
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Post by penny on Nov 1, 2008 19:52:46 GMT
Its SAHB and The Bay City Rollers for me The tartan cropped trousers suit you so well! Shang a lang! |
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Post by caveman on Nov 1, 2008 20:13:06 GMT
I tend to echo ZM almost totally, i got into the Tubes due to a BBC programme, Arena i think which showed the whole of the Concert they did in London, been hooked ever since, now i know I'm doing this Arse backwards, i knew of SAHB, but apart from Delilah, i knew very little, but I've always loved Live albums, so i saw SAHB's and bought it, and the rest as they say is history!!
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Post by victor55 on Nov 1, 2008 20:13:44 GMT
A bunch of us would gather at my lifelong friends house each Saturday
to Watch "In Concert" and SNL- Guy had this record wit this dude wearin a striped shirt doin a "Pointy Thing" on a label i never saw before (Vertigo).. 10 seconds into Swampsnake and I was hooked fer life(and luved gettin high watchin the Vertigo label spinin round and round) (I still got me vinyl)
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Post by zenmetal on Nov 1, 2008 20:27:28 GMT
I tend to echo ZM almost totally, i got into the Tubes due to a BBC programme, Arena i think which showed the whole of the Concert they did in London, been hooked ever since, now i know I'm doing this Arse backwards, i knew of SAHB, but apart from Delilah, i knew very little, but I've always loved Live albums, so i saw SAHB's and bought it, and the rest as they say is history!! Right with you Cavey - The Tubes were the catalyst that opened my ears and almost "prepared" me for SAHB. Maybe SAHB on their own would have been too much of a culture-shock, given that I'd been listening to The Sweet and Slade up to that point. |
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Post by caveman on Nov 1, 2008 20:29:55 GMT
Funnily enough me too, wish that BBC programme was still available to watch.
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Post by thetomahawkkid58 on Nov 1, 2008 21:13:35 GMT
wan o ma auld mates stevie morrow...................bottle of vordo and a listen to framed then pub !!!
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Post by huntvambo on Nov 2, 2008 11:48:17 GMT
given that I'd been listening to The Sweet and Slade up to that point. Zen, Nothing wrong with Slade... Where was I on the 8th June 1973? At Birmingham Town Hall waiting for Slade to come on stage. I used to go to a lot of concert with my elder brother and while him and his mates went to the bar, being a whipper snapper, I had to endure many a dire support band but there was the odd gem such as The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Slade were almost a Brummie band (Wolverhampton) so the crowd only wanted one band on the stage and they made it pretty obvious from the outset with chants of "We want Slade". There was the usual messing about on stage with roadies setting up various bits of kit and gaffa taping leads, eventually there's just one small guy left on stage and he walks up to a mike stand and says "I'd like to introduce you to my Band, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band". The crowd weren't impressed and the chanting for Slade continued but by the end of the set Alex and the Band had won over a small part of the crowd and I personally was gob-smacked. I can't really remember any of the set just that it was "different" and that the small guy was a bit of a character! Anyway the following weekend when I picked up my wages from my paper round it was off to Studio 45 to buy Framed. I never saw Slade again but I have seen The SAHB on one or two other occasions. Another occasion when my brother was in the bar at Birmingham Town Hall I saw some band called Lynyrd Skynyrd supporting Golden Earring. Saw the Tubes a couple of times at Birmingham Odeon and of course LeRoy Jones from the Tubes fronted the Zal band. |
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Post by hef on Nov 2, 2008 11:58:50 GMT
A mate gave me a compilation tape he'd made. I put the wrong side on one day to hear Isobel Goudy. The tape was half wound and this was the only track on this side hence the reason why i say "wrong" side. It was a complete, but happy fluke!
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Post by platterpete on Nov 2, 2008 11:59:15 GMT
My introduction was my brother constantly playing his copy of the Live album, He used to scream 'Let me put my hands on you' to which my dad would reply 'around your ruddy neck would do' oh how we had fun in those days.
To be serious tho it got me to look at the other albums.
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Post by Mrs Foster on Nov 3, 2008 14:07:38 GMT
In school, we used to swap albums with each other, just the same as swapping comics, so i swapped Alice Cooper , Schools Out for Framed cos i liked the photo of Alex and the band sitting in amongst the rubble with the wino,and that was me hooked, that was about 1973ish. Kept Framed and about 2 years later, at a party, nicked back my Alice Cooper album from the guy who i swapped with.
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Post by platterpete on Nov 3, 2008 15:07:15 GMT
Always loved that pic too, still can't work out what my dad was doing there lol
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Post by penny on Nov 3, 2008 16:34:12 GMT
Always loved that pic too, still can't work out what my dad was doing there lol Seriously, wasn't that guy supposed to have been reunited with his family because of that photo, or did I just dream it? |
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Post by jamnah22 on Nov 3, 2008 16:44:56 GMT
I had been to see some band at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall and in between set changes they played Faith Healer through the PA,well that was me hooked................
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Post by huntvambo on Nov 3, 2008 17:03:08 GMT
Always loved that pic too, still can't work out what my dad was doing there lol Seriously, wasn't that guy supposed to have been reunited with his family because of that photo, or did I just dream it? You're right Penny, something like the Jakey's mum was in a record shop and saw the cover, recognised her son and they were subsequently re-united. |
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Post by penny on Nov 3, 2008 19:17:12 GMT
Seriously, wasn't that guy supposed to have been reunited with his family because of that photo, or did I just dream it? You're right Penny, something like the Jakey's mum was in a record shop and saw the cover, recognised her son and they were subsequently re-united.[/quote If it is a true story, its a great one!  |
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Post by CROOK TOWN on Nov 3, 2008 20:16:44 GMT
Great thread there ... It was when a mate brought us bairns around to his parents house to hear a new album his brother had bought ... Jarvey is still around and as mad as a fish ... It was NEXT ... it blew me away ... nothing before or nothing since has come close .. and i dont think ever will ... that was it ... Hooked I thank you Jarvey and Tony Dunne yep, i was one of those bairns, cant remember if goundry was there though? definitely me and you though. he also dug framed out if i remember, and that was it really.. i was talking to tony a few weeks ago and he couldnt believe SAHB were still going. told him about nantwich. he thought i was taking the p***.. did he not tape framed and next for you?  |
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Post by craigiedee on Nov 4, 2008 12:24:34 GMT
It was indeedy Mark ... Paul Goundry was with us ... and I dont think i got the tapes ... I remember going around their house lots to listen to SAHB until i had sold all my Showadywady records so i could buy NEXT ....
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Post by CROOK TOWN on Nov 4, 2008 17:37:13 GMT
It was indeedy Mark ... Paul Goundry was with us ... and I dont think i got the tapes ... I remember going around their house lots to listen to SAHB until i had sold all my Showadywady records so i could buy NEXT .... i wonder if goundry still listens to SAHB mate? |
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Post by chad on Nov 4, 2008 18:42:23 GMT
jesus!  |
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Post by CROOK TOWN on Nov 4, 2008 18:47:39 GMT
jesus! hes still got them chad.. honest..  nowt wrong with showaddywaddy mind..  |
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Post by helen on Nov 4, 2008 23:43:06 GMT
A night out in Cleethorpes with Buzz and Sarah, The Tale of the Giant Stone Eater, and a room filled with a cloud of smoke.
In that order.
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