London SS
London SS was an English hard rock and punk band that played in the most varied of punk greats and that became part of The Clash .
history
The band was formed in March 1975 by Mick Jones and bassist Tony James to make music in the style of Mott the Hoople and The Faces . They placed an ad in Melody Maker to find more band members. After u. a. the young Patrik Fitzgerald had been rejected, a lineup finally formed in Matt Dangerfield's studio with Jones, James, Dangerfield, the former Hollywood Brats keyboarder Casino Steel and various drummers, including Honest John Plain and Geir Waade, who also gave the band the name .
Steel, Dangerfield, Plain and Waade finally left the band to form The Choirboys, which later became The Boys without Waade . Meanwhile, guitarist Bryan James (actually Brian Robertson) joined the band.
In the months that followed, a wide variety of musicians came and went, including drummers Terry Chimes , Topper Headon , John Towe, Roland Hot and Rat Scabies, and the later Rich Kids guitarist Steve New, Keith Levene and Paul Simonon , without the band giving a single concert played.
In January 1976 Bryan James left to form The Subterraneans with Scabies, which eventually became The Damned . Tony James and Towe went to Chelsea and the rest eventually formed The Clash .
In 2003 Jones and Tony James got back together in the band Carbon / Silicon .
Surname
The SS in the band's name was supposedly for Social Security and not in connection with the Schutzstaffel of the NSDAP . Since the band members wore swastikas for provocation purposes , this statement is seen as a protective claim.
influence
With the exception of a demo tape in the cast Jones, James, James and hot, there were no recordings of London SS The recordings were mostly made. MC5 - cover versions and original composition Protex Blue . According to Brian James, they were just busy "faking all those idiots who had no idea." Manager Bernie Rhodes described the band as "a load of shit" ( a load of bollocks ). Nevertheless, the band can be described as a melting pot of the English punk scene, as various later greats were involved. This is thanks in particular to Malcolm McLaren and Bernie Rhodes, who both tried to create a kind of environment for the Sex Pistols out of what was left of the London SS , so that they could position themselves at the forefront of the newly emerging punk movement. Former band members played in bands like Rich Kids, Chelsea and Generation X . The Boys , The Damned and The Clash came straight out of London SS .
literature
- Jon Savage : England's Dreaming. Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock (= Critica diabolis . Band 100 ). 2nd, revised edition. Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89320-070-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ theclashonline.com ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ theboys.co.uk ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Barry Graves , Siegfried Schmidt-Joos , Bernward Halbscheffel: Rock-Lexikon. Volume 1: ABBA - Lynyrd Skynyrd (= rororo 16352 rororo non-fiction ). Completely revised and expanded new edition, 411–430 thousand. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-16352-7 , p. 245.
- ↑ theclash.com
- ↑ pilleri.spt.fi ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Savage 2003, p. 113
- ↑ a b biography of the band , page 2 on Punk77.com
- ↑ Savage 2003, pp. 155ff.
