new Atomgods Youtube footage with Steve

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Steve Pond wrote:

> That track comes from the few months I was the bass player in the
> Atomgods, my tenure coincided with the death of Calvert, Trev wrote
> the song as a tribute to him, it was the first track we worked on
> together outside ICU.

 	Steve, thanks for this, I'd somehow missed that that was part of 
your history (perhaps because it got, er, 'rewritten').

> We did work up a live set that was part "Wow!", this track and a few
> odd covers (I remember NSU by Cream..)
>
> ooh.. I've found a rehearsal tape, we did:
>
> Starfighter, NSU, Birds, Real One, Virgin Love, 13/35, Mountain Range,
> Dolphins, Camden Town. That was probably about 40 mins and would have
> been what we played at the Calvert tribute show at the Brixton Academy
> with Hawkwind/Man etc..

 	Of those I don't immediately know `Birds' and `Real One', are 
those also covers or more lost Atomgods tracks?

> I produced this recording, it was only a demo really, the drums were
> done in the drummers garage with a stereo pair of microphones into a
> cassette deck, and then we did everything else in a friends bedroom 8
> track studio. Why was it never released? Your guess is as good as
> mine, it came between "Wow!" and "History Re-Written" and
> stylistically was probably representative of neither of them so it
> floated free...?

 	It would certainly have been quite odd on either album, I guess, 
but it certainly doesn't sound like so budget a recording as that.

> Or maybe Trev couldn't find another bass player happy to pretend he
> was in the Shangri-Las and do the high girly vocal! :o)  .. Trev & I
> both love the Shangri-Las.. you don't need to be much of a detective
> to work that one out!

 	I might not have been able to pin down the band but the genre in 
general does pop up here and there, yeah. I remember a little while back 
when he was selling the cache of LPs of _History Rewritten_ that means I 
even know what that album sounds like that, Trev saying that when it was 
under work the label were only interested in death metal. I guess, despite 
it being about a man's death, this wouldn't really have counted.

> But I agree, it's a classic Trev Track, nobody else can write stuff
> like that, incidentally we sang it acoustically together at the
> Calvert benefit in Herne Bay a couple of years ago..

 	I still wish I'd been together enough to make that. An obviously 
good choice, but very hard to imagine that one acoustic from this demo!

 	And now I gather we have to join another name to the Roll of 
Honour: Captain Beefheart died yesterday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12024652
This has been a day of playing dead men's records and I hope it doesn't 
continue like this any time soon. Yours,
 					 Jon

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