{"id":2280,"date":"2014-09-12T22:25:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T21:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2014-10-01T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:19:06","slug":"2280","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1967, the Roadrunners were Paul Rodgers, vocals; Mick Moody guitar; and me on bass \u2014 along with a drummer (Dave Usher) who only wanted to earn enough money to buy his own truck.<\/p>\n

Shortly before turning pro and leaving Middlesbrough for London, the band recorded a rehearsal at a local church hall.\u00a0 This tape, made on a domestic reel-to-reel machine, was thought lost decades ago.\u00a0 It was found recently, but obviously in very poor condition.\u00a0 Best efforts have since been made to clean it up.<\/p>\n

Either way, it\u2019s the first known recording of three aspiring musicians who went on to greater things.\u00a0 You can already hear that Paul Rodgers was destined to be one of the great voices of rock.\u00a0 Within a couple of years of this recording he’d already moved on to help set up Free, before going on to Bad Company and, eventually, Queen.\u00a0 Mick Moody later played with many solid blues\/rock bands, the best-known being Whitesnake.\u00a0 On this tape I\u2019d been playing little more than a year and was only too obviously trying to run before I could even walk \u2014 yes folks, I \u2018overplayed\u2019 from the very beginning. So here it is \u2026\u2018as tight as a pair of clown\u2019s trousers\u2019 \u2026a historical or hysterical recording \u2026however you care to hear it.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Rock Me Baby <\/a>is the B.B.King song that featured in the Jeff Beck Group\u2019s live set at the time we first heard it.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 The Walk <\/a>is a Jimmy McCracklin R&B favourite of the time.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Get Ready: <\/a>the Temptations\u2019 song is given our own unique treatment.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Early in the Morning <\/a>is a traditional Blues that we learned from \u2018The Sound of \u201965\u2019 album by the organ-based Graham Bond Organization, a band that featured Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Getting Mighty Crowded <\/a>is the Betty Everett song that was also covered many years later by Elvis and the Attractions.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Rehearsal Jam: <\/a>An early attempt at song writing by the band, with lyrics yet to be sorted out. \u00a0Jimi Hendrix had recently made his first appearance on British TV, and his impact on the Roadrunners is obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                        In 1967, the Roadrunners were Paul Rodgers, vocals; Mick Moody guitar; and me on bass \u2014 along with a drummer (Dave Usher) who only wanted to earn enough money to buy his own truck. Shortly before turning pro and leaving Middlesbrough for London, the band recorded a rehearsal at a local church hall.\u00a0 This tape, made on a domestic reel-to-reel machine, was thought lost decades ago.\u00a0 It was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[109,108,111,59,110,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucethomas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}