Sex, Drugs, & Rock'n'Ro

[James Kyllo]

He was a great performer and a good writer.. interesting book too:

http://www.thedonotpress.com/titles/dysfunctionalsuccess.html

"Reconnez Cherie" and "I Wish It Would Rain" were at least as good as
"Whole Wide World"

On 8/23/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> I always thought Wreckless Eric was under-rated. Good, punchy guitar rock
> with great song structure and lyrics. All that anybody knows is "I'd Go the
> Whole Wide World".
>
>
> On 8/23/06, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think contextual irony came into it..  have you heard his
> > pre-Blockheads group, Kilburn & the High Roads?  Music Hall was the
> > key description imo.  As for disco - some of the band came from the
> > funky end of pub-rock, and Chas Jankel made a couple of more or less
> > full on disco records later on
> >
> > best
> >
> > James
> > (saw the first Stiff tour - Dury, Costello, Wreckless Eric, Nick Lowe,
> > Larry Wallis)
> >
> >
> > On 8/23/06, Joe Allonby < joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I always thought that ID&TBs sounded ironic in the context of all that
> Stiff
> > > Records stuff. We can't exactly ask him since he passed on awhile back.
> > --
> > http://www.last.fm/user/Auto_Da_Fe
> > http://www.pop.nu/show_collection.asp?user=2412
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjamesk/
> > http://www.thedetails.co.uk/
> >
>
>


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