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The Roadrunners
Listen! ...to RealAudio and .mp3
Thanks to
the miracle of digital technology, we have been able to
return some of our tunes to a state where they can be
listened to - and maybe even enjoyed!.
Highlighted tracks below are RealAudio with the
occasional mp3 where space allows.
Twist-Time im Star-Club 4 - our first album
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album was recorded at around 3 o'clock in the
morning in a deserted club, after the band had
returned from a gig in Kiel. (Although we keep up
a string of 'Thank-you-very-muches' after each
track, can you actually hear anyone applauding -
other than the band?). Some track titles have a
few of our afterthoughts added to them. Image by courtesy of Bear Family Records - see the links page for further details of this 4 CD box-set which includes the Roadrunners, King Size Taylor and Bobby Patrick. |
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To be honest, we didn't think we gave a very good performance. So, after running through a whole set - much more than appears on the album - we decided we may as well do it one more time. Obviously, the sound engineer was as tired as we were at the end of a long day. When we went back out to tell him, he was already on the way out of the door with the tape under his arm! "Oh well," we thought, "they'll never be able to use that." When we returned to Hamburg a few months later, there were fans queueing up outside the door of the Star Club asking us to autograph our first album! Wonder what happened to that master tape and the tracks which never made it onto vinyl?
The All Music Guide has given this album quite a good review.
This album
featured tracks by the Roadrunners (second line-up) and
Newcastle band Shorty & Them. Our thanks
to Simon Peacock for the image. If you have
this album here are a few notes on it. They relate to the
published track listing, which doesn't quite coincide
with the way the tracks actually appear. That's where
our half of the album ends. The following are the bonus
tracks. If you have
really good eyesight, you'll see that four tracks are
listed on the cover of Pantomania. "If You Want To
Know The Time" was a comedy sketch and nothing to do
with us! R&B
Festival - featuring the Roadrunners (All the above details are
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Roadrunners: www.liverpool-roadrunners.org.uk
Pete's vocals, but he was suffering from the
dreaded 'Hamburg Throat'. I
barely made it to the end!
We were the only band doing
this sort of thing, and the locals loved it.
Everyone else was doing 'Twist & Shout'! -
Pete
Shortly into the number, Dave Percy has trouble
with the lead to his guitar and the guitar line
disappears while he tries to fix it. The
accepted practice was to stamp on the thing! -
Dave. He reappears briefly
towards the end to slap a few strings. Dave
was really pissed off - but this one still
swings. - Pete
A favourite of our friend Ulf Kruger and, we have
to admit, one which we feel has stood the test of
time. It builds well. (+MP3)
The
mp3s will come along in due course, but we
couldn't leave this one out, could we?
(+MP3)Tanz-Show
im Star-Club 2 - our second album
There
was a re-release on CD by Germany's Repertoire
Records, but it's long since deleted. That CD
also included a number of bonus tracks:
This
"historical artefact" was, apart from
"Pantomania", the band's only UK
release. We believe it can be found on the Spalax
label and is called "Rock
Generation Volume 5",
SPALAXCD 14554. 