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(He pops up a lot during my musical adventures and was later in J.P. The rhythm guitarist, Roger Hartley, was playing all these amazing chords that I didn’t even know existed at that time and Andy Rickell, the lead guitarist, was just brilliant. They were a bit younger than us so thought it was a much bigger deal than it actually was, having these older lads who had actually gigged showing interest. Later on, Pat bought a drum kit and said there was a duo he knew of in the nearby town of Calne who played guitar instrumentals (like The Shadows, Duane Eddy, The Ventures, and Link Wray) so we rather grandly went along to ‘audition’ them. My parents owned the local grocery shop in this remote Wiltshire village called Goatacre so we could always rehearse upstairs in the evenings without annoying people. Rod & The Sceptres posterĪnyway, it was only a couple of years later that I got my first guitar and my friend Pat (Murphy) could sing as well so we both did a few songs at the local Youth Club. That voice was just completely untamed craziness that made Rock and Roll hit me sweet and hard and I was hooked.īut I was also a big fan of Buddy Holly and the sweet, sad harmonies of The Everly Brothers … around 1957 / ’58 I suppose. My first record was a 78 rpm 10 inch shellac beast called “Keep a Knockin” by Little Richard. This was the only decent Top 20 pop music deliverer back then and, when I was really young, I used to listen to it in bed (under the bedclothes) in the middle of the night.
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Like many others of my age I began tuning in to Radio Luxembourg on 208 meters in the Medium wave. I stuck drawing pins in the piano hammers to give it a harder, honky-tonk sound and so my piano teacher quit. I took a few piano lessons but wasn’t allowed to play anything I fancied. But there was so little music back in the 1950’s that was an alternative to middle-of-the-road muzak / showbiz tunes. Music was an ever-present part of my life, as it usually is for all of us really. How did you first get interested in music? It was a bit difficult to find all the information about your musical involvement but I’ll try my best to capture the essence of it. Read much more in the following interview.
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After having a bit of bad luck with how the project ended, Rod moved on to form Magic Muscle, which by the end of 1972 had built a strong cult following. Rod was also an important part of freaked-out mind mischief which culminated in group called Rustic Hinge and the Provincial Swimmers (a commune of freaks) that took considerable amount of psychedelics that got linked with their ideas of what music can sound like. Rod Goodway is definitely one of the most underrated musicians and we are really happy that we sat down and discussed his story.įrom the start in blues oriented bands like Rod & The Sceptres, The Pack and the legendary Artwoods, to psychedelic “summer of love” projects like J.P. Sadly he never got lucky enough to gain sizable popularity with the labels, which didn’t understand yet, what “far out” ideas in music were all about. Interview with “Space Rocker” Rustic Rod Goodway about Magic Muscle, … Rod Goodway is without a doubt an important name in UK’s progressive rock scene.