Original acetate 45 rpm - Grab a Shadow ( David J )
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Original acetate 45 rpm - Grab a Shadow ( David J & Kevin Haskins pre Bauhaus band - circa 1975 ) ‘Don’t Block My View’ ( David J. Haskins ) c/w
‘Terminal Cafe’ ( David 'X' Exton )
Recorded at NSR ( Northampton Sound Recording )
extremely rare ( only one made!
Signed.
v. good
David J writes:
In 1975 I was in a proto-punk garage rock band called ‘Grab A Shadow’, along with my little bruver, Kevin ( age 16 ) my best schoolmate, David ‘X’ Exton & another pal, Dave Stretton. One day, when we were not ready, we all rolled into a cheap local demo studio, NSR Sound which was situated in a backstreet in Northampton and cut an acetate of two tracks, ‘Terminal Cafe’, which was penned by ‘X’ is a grinding rock n’ roll number about a sort of Twilight Zone scenario about a cafe that turns out to be the anti-chamber to death and ‘Don’t Block My View’, ( my first original song to be recorded ) a grammatically challenged little ditty which tells of the naughty nocturnal activities of a voyeur, the twist being that the object of his affection turns out to be his estranged daughter! It is sung with some vim and viguer by brattish little eighteen year old me and at one point, I can be heard haranguing Stretton for not coming in on cue with his backing vocal. “Where were ya?” Ha! Ha! Both tracks were recorded with the band playing live, vocals n’ all as we could not afford to record overdubs.
You can check out ‘Don’t Block My View’ on the music section of my myspace site:
www.myspace.com/davidjonline
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