Strawbs

stubby · Post by **stubby** » Wed May 11, 2005 3:26 am

Is anybody on the list familiar with Dave Cousins and The Strawbs? On Remembering/You and I and Grace Darling (from the album Ghosts), I think Cousins is playing a Rickenbacker - any ideas on which model?

marty · Post by **marty** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:59 am

Bill,

I don't know a lot about The Strawbs, but I've always been firmiliar with the name.
I used to be a postman in West London and I delivered to The Strawbs appreciation society but never knew nothing about their music.

I found their website and I am very intrigued...seems they originate from West London and I didn't know Rick Wakeman was once a member!

Here's the website,and I found these pics You might like:

http://www.strawbpage.ndirect.co.uk/

Dave Cousins

Dave Lambert

marty · Post by **marty** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:14 am

If you have a look on the features page and go to Watford Town Hall 28 Sep 1972, there are some great pics with the Ric!

The bass player has a mapleglo 4001:

http://www.strawbpage.ndirect.co.uk/index11.htm

stubby · Post by **stubby** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:34 am

I adore the Strawbs- great band with all kinds of variation in their music. They started out as a bluegrass/folk group playing with Sandy Denny. They evolved over the years into a rock and prog rock band. They've been playing a fair bit lately and I've had the chance over the last year or so to see them twice in a small intimate Toronto venue - once as the Acoustic Strawbs (Cousins, Lambert, and Willoughby) and once with their "classic" Hero and Heroine lineup.

Yes, Wakeman began his career with the Strawbs and played, I think, on two albums. If you're a Wakeman fan, I would check out "Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios" and "From the Witchwood" (personally my favourite Strawbs album). Other notables that came through the Strawbs are Richard Hudson and John Ford (played later in a band you've probably heard - "The Monks").

marty · Post by **marty** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:49 am

I have an album by The Monks...Black Monk Time.

There's a track I particularly like...'I hate You'.

There's a great bass tone on that one....dirty grinding sound...Love it

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:17 am

I think "Black Monk Time" is a different Monks. The band Bill is referring to was a punk/pop band that put out a couple of great albums in the late 70's/early 80's - "Bad Habits" and "Suspended Animation". First band I ever saw live as a matter of fact. They were a British band that was huge in Canada, (or at least Ontario), but I'm not sure how popular they were elsewhere.

stubby · Post by **stubby** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:04 am

Yea, "Drugs in My Pocket" was their big hit and Bad Habits was the album I knew. Never was a big Monks fan though Hudson/Ford have done some stuff together that I liked. Interesting comment about them being big in Canada and possibly not elsewhere. They were a one hit wonder around here but still, that song was huge-again in my area anyway.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu May 12, 2005 5:29 am

Bill, I saw The Strawbs in 1974 in Phoenix, Az...at a baseball stadium outside of town in June, 105 degrees F...they were the opening act on a four band bill, with Robin Trower, King Crimson and Ten Years After. I was there to see KC, but enjoyed The Strawbs a lot...many mellotrons that day. They hit the stage at 3 PM, and the heat was a bit much for them white boys...the drummer played the entire set with a wet towel over his head...

stubby · Post by **stubby** » Thu May 12, 2005 6:08 am

I would liked to have seen them in 1974-their heyday. But then, I would only have been 6 years old and probably wouldn't have appreciated the show much. Sounds like a great show. King Crimson and the Strawbs on one day, wow! I first saw them around 1986/7 on their Don't Say Goodbye tour.