BOTH HANDS FREE LP RARE 1976 LP KEMP/PEGRUM MUSIC
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Description
Both Hands Free
1976 Private Press LP
(Kemp / Pegrum Music KP 001 J)
Tracks :
Side One :
Space / Gettemoff / Shinohara / Solitude / Silver Sleeve.
Side Two :
Phobos / City Slickers / Muff The Diver / Blue / Stop The Music.
This is the very rare self titled Both Hands Free LP. A private pressing released on
the Kemp / Pegrum Music Limited label in 1976.Limited to 1,000 copies.
Privately pressed LP released on a label Rick Kemp set up solely for
this release after seeing them play in the basement of a Manchester pub.
"Both Hands Free were all session players working around the
Manchester studios in the 1970s who got together while backing
Tony Christie on a now-forgotten live LP. The jazz fusion style
of the band evolved from a love of Weather Report combined
with the frustrations of playing commercial material on a
daily basis, and the band fine-tuned their chops at a popular
sunday residency at the Cavalcade club in the trendy Manchester
suburb of Didsbury. There they were spotted by Rick Kemp,
bass player in Steeleye Span. Kemp and Span drummer
Nigel Pegrum put up the cash to record the LP with two days
at Fairview in 1976 and 1,000 copies were pressed.
Drummer Dave Hassel recalls that the chemistry between
the band members was sublime and the LP sold well, but
the band soon folded due to their many other individual
professional engagements at the time. Both Hassel and
keyboard player Ritchie Close subsequently worked often
with Span vocalist Maddy Prior, while bassist Pete Glennon
and sax player Phil Chapman worked extensively as MDs and
session men. After accidentally drumming on the
St Winfred's School Choir chart-topper "There's No One Quite
Like Grandma", Dave Hassel began a close association with
Factory Records producer Martin Hannett that saw him feature
on, amongst many other things, the Bummed LP by the
Happy Mondays. Today Hassel's band undertakes latin-styled
covers of Manchester favourites and on the more serious
side is involved with the Royal Academy of Music in
Manchester and has written a number of drumming manuals.
*The record comes in Near Mint Condition.
*The cover is laminated and comes in Excellent Condition.
This record came from a private collection, hence the numbered sticker on the
reverse of the lp cover (see scans).
Shipping /Postage :
UK = FREE (Signed For Delivery)
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USA & ROW = £17.50 (Tracked Delivery)
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