Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

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?

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

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

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").

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

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.

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.

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...

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.