Saturday, December 08, 2007

Saturday Glam Blogging...

Here's Chris Spedding "minding the gap" between glam and punk with his neat 1975 single Motorbikin' which reached no. 14 on the UK charts in that year. While it's a pretty straight forward rockin' track, I'm pegging it as glam for a couple of reasons. First, it appeared on Mickie Most's RAK label, which housed other glam stalwarts such as Mud and Suzi Quatro. Secondly, it was also anthologized on the first really serious look back at the glam period, The Great Glam Rock Explosion LP released in the late 80s. Plus, the solo wouldn't sound out of place on a Sweet record either. Have a glamtastic S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!


2 comments:

steve simels said...

KC;

Remind me to tell you my Chris Spedding stories. I lived in the same building as him for a while.

Also -- he sold a personally customized Gretch Country Gentleman guitar to the singer in my skinny tie band. Absolutely gorgeous instrument -- it's probably on a lot of interesting records....

Cleveland Bob said...

Wow. I thought I was the only person ever to have owned that record. It's a great song. Kind of a cross between a Dave Edmunds cut and Sid's "My Way".

Nice find, KC.

Oh, and in the, "I used to be into Prog Rock category", me and the missus are going to see The Musical Box tonight. I loved Gabriel era Genesis and these guys are supposed to be fantastic.

www.themusicalbox.net