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As a sideline to Tigertailz, Ace Finchum is looking to do a project he has always wanted to do - by forming a Sweet Tribute band!
All the rock stuff, no "Love is like Oxygen" nonsense....but Set me Free/ Sweet FA/ No you Dont/ Action/ The Sixteens?
So if there is anyone out there suitable, for bass /Guitar/ vox and really up for it -
Please email him, (via the link below)
Thankz
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Ace @ MySpace
For a giggle tell him, Brian the Navaho would like to play bass, and that it would be cool if we could rehearse at Mouse Hall in suffolk .. Also inform him that Stuart Cheeze wants to be the manager of the tribute band .. ( He'll Know what i'm on about ! )
Marshy
Well, I'm out of a job...
Trouble is, I don't think the world is ready for a six foot Steve Priest...
Speaking of Steve Priest, I understand he is in LA now. What is he doing these days, and why didn't he do some footage for that SWEET DVD several years ago? Andy Scott did, why not him?
Hovis Presley of the "Last of the Teenage Idols" fame played with Brians' Band "Sweet B.C." up until Brian died. He's always up for a tour and that.... Trouble is,.. he has now grown an extra leg, and walks into any room,... horizontaly.... So he tells me.
Hovis Presley...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovis_Presley
Actually, Hovis ended up doing the majority of the lead vocal duties in the latter days when Brian's illness got really bad. I saw him at a Sweet convention a few years ago, when he fronted a hastily put together Sweet covers band because the band originally booked had pulled out at the last minute, and he did a great job of it too. He asked me if I wanted to get up and do a number and I volunteered for 'Turn It Down' but then he just went ahead and did it himself for some reason...
As for Steve Priest, he appears to just be enjoying the spoils of his success and doesn't really have the need or desire to do anything musically. His wife is/was a high flyer at Capitol (Sweet's US label) so they're probably not short of a bob or two. He regularly posts on the Sweet website though - often ruffling a few feathers in the process. The reason, apparently, that he wasn't interviewed for that DVD is that he 'wasn't asked'.
Hovis probably mis heard you,.. he might have thought you'd said.."I'll turn it down",.. and thus went on to perform the song...(?).
I think so,.. and maybe a couple of "Golden Earings" too..?
Any truth to it having been Cozy Powell playing on Ballroom Blitz, the original, rather than Mick Tucker?
<font size="4" face="Arial">Who played on that album with Brian where he "covered" all the SWEET hits so he could get royalties? Wasn't it at least some of Blackfoot Sue?Quote:
Originally posted by Buttz:
Hovis Presley of the "Last of the Teenage Idols" fame played with Brians' Band "Sweet B.C." up until Brian died. He's always up for a tour and that.... Trouble is,.. he has now grown an extra leg, and walks into any room,... horizontaly.... So he tells me.
Never heard that one before - certainly one of the most unbelievable things I've heard too. I'm sure it was Mick. The drum intro was borrowed from Buddy Rich in fact, and apparently (think it's in Steve Priest's book) when Mick first had the idea of trying it on 'Blitz' it transformed the song from one they thought was OK into the classic we all know.
The bit about Cozy was on a site about him.
I wrote about Buddy Rich on the glam roots thread. Mick's "Man With The Golden Arm" was good, both live and studio.