Monday, January 2

Crazy Pink Revolvers



If you follow my brother Adam's blog or read his excellent magazine, you may know that in a past life he was guitarist in a band (mid-to-late eighties) with Stan Stammers, legendary bassist ex-Theatre of Hate, Spear of Destiny and The Pack. That's Adam on the right of the sleeve in the video.

I saw Crazy Pink Revolvers loads of times... designed their first album sleeve and even roadied for them. They were a tight little band with a big sound... two basses, no less. Good times, when vintage semi-acoustics, big E levis and rocker chic were king!

It's his birthday today, so here's a blast from the glory days. Many happy returns bro.

6 comments:

Neil Holdom said...

Yeah, good band.
Actually Stan was not the bassist for The Pack, he played bass for The Straps and left to join Theatre of Hate with Kirk. I played drums for the Straps with the other members of The Pack, which will always be the best band I have ever seen.

ITALIAN MOTOR magazine said...

Ah....much appreciated, though best track on that EP is The Driver. Did you notice I'm wearing my Harley T-shirt in that photo?

Guy@GK said...

Thanks Neil... those were good days.

Anonymous said...

Hello Great magazine

ITALIAN MOTOR magazine said...

The Straps were also great. Brixton is up there with my favourite punk 7 singles. Never saw The Pack live (just too yooung) but have the records and love that clip on YouTube.

Neil holdom said...

Yeah, I loved The Straps and then got to drum for them when Jim Walker (out of PIL) left. Jim was the drummer for The Pack and I saw them a few times at Brixton Town Hall and their last gig at 101 club in Battersea. Long time ago. Happy Birthday.