HW: Damned by the curse of Damned (was Re: Greasy Truckers Party 2001)

Nick Medford nick at HERMIT0.DEMON.CO.UK
Mon Dec 3 14:09:54 EST 2001


On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 13:37:49 +0000, Jon Jarrett
<jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:

>
>        Only know SoM connection is that they have covered `Silver
>Machine' live, but that hardly counts. I'm sure there must be a link
>through people somehow but I don't know it.

Well, former Sisters man Wayne Hussey had that execrable band The Mission
(whatever happened to them? They were huge in the mid-80s) who formed an
association with John Paul Jones- (JPJ played with them, produced them,
even acted as a sort of rock-god guru to little Wayne I believe)- and from
there you can do the standard Led Zep-Roy Harper-anyone you want (including
HW) link. But I don't think there's a more direct link than that, unless
there's one through Generation X (a former Gen X-er was briefly in the
Sisters I think, don't know who or when, Gen X never interested me and I
had lost interest in the Sisters by then).

>> I couldn't figure out a way to connect the Damned to the Cure for the
Andy
>> Anderson connection.  The Sex Pistols will work, though

Well, you can connect the Damned to the Pistols through Lu Edmunds, who was
in Lydon's PiL immediately after his stint with the Damned.

Current Damned drummer Pinch was formerly in long-running punk outfit
English Dogs, and there may be other connections through them, but again,
that's moving away from stuff that interests me so I don't know.

Anyway this is a silly game and I don't want to play anymore... but I can't
help myself! Stop it both of you!

;)

Nick



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