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| Author | Topic: The Embers Glow Again |
| Tj Sundown |
posted 11/11/09 7:39 AM
Hi AfterGlow, How sad. By the way that first post by Andy is from the real Andy. Great to catch up with you again. Have you heard about Dave Thompson's new book that features the Doctors? Tj |
| Sweet Jane |
posted 12/1/09 2:32 PM
"Have you heard about Dave Thompson's new book that features the Doctors?" I hope that it's a bit better researched than the inaccurate SHIT that he wrote about DOM in the All Music Guide! |
| Colin |
posted 1/25/10 11:24 AM
Sweat, smoke and patchouli oil by Jerry Chester, BBC H&W Web Producer Confessions of a teenage prog rock fan and memories of gigs at Malvern Winter Gardens. “Then there were The Doctors of Madness, one of the strangest bands I have ever seen, who dressed like Goths, and played some magnificently pretentious twaddle” (obviously had problems with his eyesight and hearing then?) ;-) |
| Colin |
posted 1/25/10 11:33 AM
Profile of typical '76 DOM fans. "I’d say the five of us were untypical products of the 11 plus-Grammar-Technical School system, born into varying degrees of poverty, and had been though the usual scooter boy-suedehead-smoothie, Bowie Roxy route, and ended up slap bang in the middle of ’76 looking for a buzz". "None of us really fit in to the pre-determined holes of articled clerks or worse, and we spent most of our time being as contrary as possible. Not for us the ‘pleasures’ of ELP, Led Zep, Uriah Heep and Greasy Bear. For us, it was Dr Feelgood, Sparks, Lou Reed, the dark voyeuristic pleasures of the Roxy Room at Pips and the strippers of the Manchester Arms. We never joined in, but oh, how we ogled! Our other ‘heroes’ were Doctors of Madness, not because of the music, but coz of their image – blue hair, ‘KID’ guitar, and ‘no star’ reviews in Sounds". |
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Hugh (Moderator) |
posted 1/25/10 5:46 PM
Ha! Who were Greasy Bear?? Was Dadamo behind the no-stars? |
| Roger |
posted 8/14/10 10:50 AM
Greasy Bear reportedly sounded like the Grateful Dead meets The Byrds with a touch of Fairport Convention: a really unique, great sound with Bruce Mitchell's drums powering it all along. They did a satirical number about Vietnam, based on the premise of wheels falling off a tank - it was based on some novelty number of the mid to late 60s called "Three Wheels on My Wagon" which they changed to 'Three Wheels On My Tank'!!!! Ah, the good old days of protest rock! – The Doctors played their part of course. Dadomo’s review of the ‘Figments’ album awarded it 0 stars and 5 lemons, but having been wooed by the Kid, he later warmed to the band with some major good reviews, but considerable damage had already been done. He was quite chummy with the Kid, and went with the band on one of the final tours minus Urban, as reported in the Kid’s autobiog. Having made a 5 lemons contribution to the punk scene with his band the Snivelling Shits, Dadomo is reportedly dead now RIP |
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