Tymon Dogg s/t LP RARE 1976 Outlaw No1 Clash Joe Strummer

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Tymon Dogg s/t LP RARE 1976 Outlaw No1 Clash Joe Strummer

Original UK pressing on private Outlaw label.

Tymon Dogg (born Stephen John Murray in Formby, Lancashire, England) is a highly idiosyncratic English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, playing piano, violin, guitar, oud and a harp of his own invention. As well as developing his own solo sound, he worked with The Clash and later collaborated with Joe Strummer in The Mescaleros.

In 1971, Timon became friends with John Graham Mellor, who would a few years later become known to the world as Joe Strummer. They shared a flat that year with a few other people at 18 Ash Grove aka 'Vomit Heights' in Palmers Green, London. In September 1971 the 'Vomit Heights' crowd and assorted others moved into a flat at 34 Ridley Road, Harlesden, London.

In early spring of 1972, Timon and Mellor took to busking in the London Underground during the evenings. Together, the 22-year old Tymon and 20-year old Mellor also busked in London's Green Park tube station and around Europe. Throughout this period also, Tymon was an important influence on Mellor. He taught him to play chords on an old ukulele by using his right-hand to strum the chords instead of with his natural left-hand ability, this resulting in the unique strumming style later evidenced in The Clash's music.

After being evicted from the 34 Ridley Road flat in April 1972, Tymon then moved into a flat in Miles Buildings in London. The Ridley Road collective also moved in for a while, though most soon left for a farm outside Blandford Forum in Dorset in the summer of 1972. Around this time Tymon became a vegan - a decision he describes as political.

In 1973 Tymon played violin live on stage for the first time. It was also around this time that Timon changed his name to Tymon Dogg. In 1974, he was living at a ‘short-life’ house at 23 Chippenham Road, Maida Hill, London with various others. John Mellor also took up residence at this address after returning to London from Newport, Wales.

In 1975 and 1976, Tymon began playing support gigs with Mellor's (now Joe Strummer) new pub-rock band the 101ers; Tymon was a regular at the Charlie Pig Dog Club, which was a weekly residence at a local dive that the 101ers organized. He would occasionally join the band for a jam on his violin. Strummer eventually left the 101ers in 1976 and went on to join punk band The Clash.

In 1976, Tymon released his first full-length solo album Tymon Dogg, also known as Outlaw Number One. Only 500 copies were pressed. He provides all the instrumentation including piano, violin, guitar, viola, cello, mandolin, harmonica, glockenspiel, harmonium, shaum, and cymbal. Later in 1977, he formed a folk-punk trio called The Fools with drummer Richard Dudanski (ex-101ers) and bassist Ron Harvey.

The Clash released their fourth LP Sandinista! in 1980. Tymon wrote, sang, and played violin on the track "Lose This Skin", as well as adding violin overdubs to "Lightning Strikes" while in Electric Lady Studios. At the time of recording Sandinista!, Mick Jones was helping Ellen Foley record her second album Spirit of St. Louis. Three songs written by Tymon would feature on the LP.

After forty-odd years in the music business, Tymon has worked with/supported a vast array of musical talent both in the studio and on stage. The list includes: Joe Strummer, The Clash, Pete Doherty, Shane MacGowan, The Slits, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, James Taylor, Justin Hayward, The Mescaleros, Richard Strange, Ian Hunter, Ellen Foley, The Poison Girls, Glyn Johns, Peter Asher, Liam Genockey, Pandit Ramesh Misra, Salah Dawson Miller, Richard Dudanski, Roy Harper, The Cramps, Trapeze, Neville Staples, The Fall, Stone the Crows, Rory McLeod, Charles Hayward, Lol Coxhill, DM Bob & Jem Finer, Orphy Robinson, Hugh Hopper, Robb Johnson, and Claire Hamill.

Side 1:

1 - I Caught You Dancing

2 - Too Small To Lead Too Big To Follow

3 - A Beautiful Waste of Time

4 - Beneath A Bare Tree

5 - Suffer Our Way To The Stars

Side 2:

6 - Too Late And A Minute Too Soon

7 - The Wheel of Life and Death

8 - Coming To Meet

9 - Sick As A Dog

10 - Love Breathe Me

CONDITION:

SLEEVE: EX— Clean, a few minor surface marks (not laminated), no creases, splits or tears.

RECORD:  EX++ TO NM—   Clean, glossy & unmarked; labels clean with a couple of small spindle trails only.