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Track 0060: LANDSLIDE (Hodgson) 3:28 (ADAMANTA CHUBB) (16th February 1975)
Musicians: Dimmer Blackwell – lead vocals (verse), acoustic guitar, Kevin McMaster – lead vocals (chorus), Stephen Sharratt – lead guitar, Alan Cornforth – drums
Recorded: St. Joseph's Church Hall Youth Club, Norton (live performance)
stereo reel-to-reel tape recorder (7 ½ ips)
Purity was always a “pretend” band, with no ambitions to perform live, and once Michael had dropped out, I had to be content to write and record basic songs with little to no equipment. Being in a band was a dream, but it became a reality in 1975.
My girlfriend Denise had a close friend called Kaye who was dating a lad called Dimmer Blackwell. Sometime in 1973 I actually had a jam session with him one afternoon (sadly not recorded), and we met occasionally after that.
In January 1975 he told me he was now in a band called Adamanta Chubb, and it was decided that I would come to one of their rehearsals and write songs for the band. At the first meeting both sides were nervous, but after a while we relaxed and I presented several songs, one of which was a ballad called “Landslide”.
The band had been together about eight months, but had only played one gig in 1974, by all accounts a disastrous night at a local youth club.
The band were Dimmer Blackwell, bass guitar, Stephen Sharratt on guitar, Kevin McMaster on vocals, and Alan Cornforth on drums. They played straight forward rock music, with heavy leanings, and their set consisted of songs such as “Mississippi Queen” (Mountain), “I Can't Explain” (The Who) and “Gypsy” (Uriah Heep).
Up until my arrival the idea of playing their own music had hardly been considered. With a couple of weeks it was suggested that it might be an idea if I actually joined the band on keyboards, so I dashed off to the local music shop and bought the best organ I could afford, which was a cheap and nasty Elgam organ that had two settings, awful and worse.
The band had a gig coming up, and despite the fact that I had been rehearsing for a few weeks, we all agreed I was not ready to play live, and so it was the band took the stage without me, but they did perform my song “Landslide”.
Even though I am not actually playing, this does mark the live debut of one of my songs, so had to be included.
THINGS TO LISTEN OUT FOR: The sound is spaced out not because of an expensive reverb unit, but because the hall itself was almost deserted. Maybe about 40-50 kids braved the racket, chipping in with heckles between songs. You might also pick out some girls voices close to the microphones, identified as Denise And Kaye.

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fast cakes Stockton On Tees, UK

Fast Cakes aka John Hodgson presents his Fast Cakes releases, plus his older releases with other bands, and also the massive "Legend & Lunacy" a 50th Anniversary box set of 1261 tracks celebrating 50 years of songwriting and music making with a variety of bands including Blitzkrieg Bop, Basczax & Makaton Chat amongst others. From pop tunes to indie anthems, all human life is here. ... more

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