Recording
Recorded with Joe
Boyd/John Wood Sound Techniques, Chelsea. Single produced day after
'Arnold
Layne' for Pink Floyd. Both produced by Boyd/Wood International Times editor
John
'Hoppy' Hopkins on paino on 'Bootleg Whisky. Syd Barrett writes 'Here
I Go' for the Gang. Ralph
McTell covers (and ruins) 'Granny Takes a Trip'.
'Granny Takes a Trip' covered in France by Jean
Albertini and made into a
silly dance called 'Le Mirliton'. Record label Big T Transatlantic, (now
defunct) artists also included Billy Connolly, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart,
Alexis Koerner, Mike and Sally
Oldfield, Pentangle, Gerry Rafferty,
Dubliners and many others.
Purple Gang now recording themselves and
using the Net. No record company to date.
PURPLE GANG TRYING TO
ESTABLISH DATABASE OF FOLLOWERS OLD AND NEW
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Management
Joe
Boyd, legendary producer and London Underground Flower Power entrepenuer, mover
and
shaker, managed Purple Gang and produced them. The Gang based in
Bayswater and
Macclesfield! Later Ex BBC Radio 1 D.J. David Symonds took
over management. At one point Purple Gang
were with the same agency as Jimi
Hendrix and the Stones.
Venues
Purple Gang appealed initially to the hippy scene but later became a student
favourite. Appeals
also to Folk/Rock following. Today have a brick in the
'Wall of Fame', (close to Lennon's statue)
Cavern, Mathew Street,
Liverpool. Once appeared with 'Love', Hendrix, Bowie, Velvets, T.Rex.
Best Gigs. 14 hour Technicolour Dream, Alexander Palace 1967. UFO Club,
Tottenham Court
Road.
Worst Gigs. Anywhere audience wants
'cover' only!
PURPLE GANG
Joe Beard (guitar, jug vocals, songs)/ Gerry Robinson (mandolin,
guitar, slide steel guitar, harmonica, vocals)
Pev Pevitt (lead vocal, harmonica, shaker, tambourine, kazoo). Chris
Millward (double bass)
Next Gig at New Mills Golf Club, Derbyshire
Wednesday September 17th at 8.30pm 2008
The George, Market Street, Hyde, Cheshire Friday 27th September at 8p.m. 2008
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