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  • Dark Company: Suns Set (alpha mix)
    Suns Set, by Dark Company.
    From CD 1, 'SNAFU', of the triple CD album, 'A for Acronym'.
    SUNS SET
    I'm waiting for the nite to come...
    I'm waiting for the nite to come...
    I'm waiting for the nite to come...
    I'm waiting for the nite to come...
    In the red rays of a dying sun
    I'm waiting for the nite to come
    Booming surf across the bay
    Metal waves rolling night and day
    Canisters marked with skull and bones
    Click against the shoreline stones
    What will be in the days ahead
    Will it be armies of the living dead
    What will be there when the sun comes up
    Will there ever be a loving touch
    On the wine of evening airs
    Gaudy music of war-torn fairs
    Roundabout of skeletal frames
    Going round and round again
    In my ears calliopes sound
    A new age gets off the ground
    What will be in the days ahead
    Will it be armies of the living dead
    What will be there when the sun comes up
    Will there ever be a loving touch
    You should seek other countries
    Choose your friends more carefully
    The leading kings of foreign lands
    Your destiny is within their hands
    You seek justice of lasting peace
    Violence is all you meet
    What will be in the days ahead
    Will it be armies of the living dead
    What will be there when the sun comes up
    Will there ever be a loving touch
    Lyrics by P. Greatorex 25th June 2009.
    Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex.
    Copyright © 2009 D & G Music/Explicit Music.
    This arrangement by Dark Company.
    Vocals and guitar recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2015.
    Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Europe, 2020.
    Engineered, mixed and produced at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.
    Cover Art:
    "Shapes Cross-Twist 1: Ignition" by Peter Greatorex
    See: https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex/original-artwork-by-peter-greatorex-gallery-2/
    Copyright ℗ 2024 Wud Records.
    Performers:
    ‘Speedy’ Pete Greatorex – vocals
    Zakk Black – guitars, vocals
    Josh Reynes – synths
    Maxx Damage – bass
    Sven Stiglund – drums
    Fun Facts:
    * The lyrics for this song were written 25th June 2009.
    * Dark Company used the DSK Analog Matrix synth for three of the keyboard sounds (https://www.dskmusic.com/).
    * Two of them are big pad sounds that play in unison, with shared heavy reverb and flange, so are hard to tell apart.
    * The lead guitar parts are played on the Ice Maiden, as is the rhythm guitar part to the right.
    * The rhythm guitar to the left is Nicodemus.
    * Pete simply couldn’t remember the vocal melody for this, so a unison guitar was tracked to help him along.
    * Dark Company ditched the unison guitar parts where Pete is singing and used it in the solo.
    * It’s the filthy dirty one that always seems to sound slightly surprised.
    * Pete wrote this before various members of Wud Records left the uk and, like many of his other lyrics, it turned out to be extraordinarily prophetic.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/a-for-acronym-cd-1-snafu/
    https://linktr.ee/dark.company
    https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/a-for-acronym/suns-set
    5 min
  • Pok: Don't Let It Pass You By
    Don't Let It Pass You By, by Pok the Bard.
    Album: Anthology
    DON'T LET IT PASS YOU BY
    Don’t let the times go slow Mama
    Just let them ride on easy
    It’s happening
    It’s happening
    Don’t let the blues fool you Mama
    Just let them pass you by
    That’s what they’re there for
    That’s what they’re there for
    Open up your heart and let it all go
    Cos you know sometimes you just gotta let it all flow
    And all those times there in your head
    Was only there to compensate
    All the while the way was waiting
    You just had to grab a hold of the way
    All today
    Of the way
    In that sway
    And what is today is never tomorrow
    And who is gone may only follow
    Take hold of my hand til the morning comes
    New dawn come when you wake up
    When you wake up
    When you wake up
    Don’t let the times go slow Mama
    Just let them ride on easy
    It’s happening
    It’s happening
    Don’t let the blues fool you Mama
    Just let them pass you by
    That’s what they’re there for
    That’s what they’re there for
    Open up your heart and let it all go
    Cos you know sometimes you just gotta let it all flow
    And all those thoughts there in your brain
    Was only there to compensate
    Cos all the while the way was waiting
    You just had to grab a hold of the way
    Of today
    Of the way
    Caught In the sway
    And what is today is never tomorrow
    And who is gone may only follow
    Take hold of my hand til the morning comes
    New dawn comes when you wake up
    When you wake up
    When you wake up
    Music and lyrics by Simon Miller.
    Copyright © 1985 Pok Songs / Explicit Music.
    This arrangement by Pok, Fedax Si-Hulmin, Josh Reynes, Maxx Damage and Sven Stiglund.
    Pok’s guitars and voices recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2017.
    Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2023-4.
    Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.
    Copyright ℗ 2024 Wud Records.
    Performers:
    Pok the Bard – lead vocal, lead and rhythm guitars
    Fedax Si-Hulmin – guitar, backing vocals
    Josh Reynes – organ, synths
    Maxx Damage – bass
    Sven Stiglund – drums
    Fun Facts:
    * Don’t Let It Pass You By begins with a cute little instrumental in the key of A major.
    * This section introduces the string section and keys, there are no drums.
    * Pok plays a rhythm track on Marsha panned to the right throughout the song and a clean sounding lead track panned down the centre, also on Marsha.
    * Fedax plays chords on the Ice Maiden panned left, and Maxx’s bass and Josh’s DSK B3x are also present.
    * Fedax uses a patch on the Neural DSP Quad Cortex called Brit 2203, scene 1, and the Ice Maiden’s bridge pickup in humbucker configuration to conform with the original Laughing Sun interpretation.
    * Once the intro is done, the key changes to E major and the feel becomes a hard blues rock vibe.
    * The tempo for the song is 144 BPM, or allegro vivace.
    * Don’t Let It Pass You By has a lyric that delivers a very strong and positive message.
    * The whole song is upbeat and has a real feelgood factor about it.
    * Don’t Let It Pass You By was composed by Pok in 1985 and the earliest version was performed by Laughing Sun.
    * It was also performed by the Spacegoats during their brief Electric Elves incarnation, some of which you can hear in the Archives section of the Wud Records website.
    * The synth that sounds a little like the EDP Wasp is the Kriminal Twilight synth, which is freeware, and you can learn more about it here: https://rekkerd.org/kriminal-releases-twilight-vsti/.
    * There is also a pad called fullonpad from the Polly8te by Osiris, which you can find here: https://sites.google.com/site/osirissynths/Home/synth-page
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/anthology/
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dont-let-it-pass-you-by-2
    https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/pok-bard/anthology/dont-let-it-pass-you-by
    https://www.youtube.com/@poktv6148/videos
    https://www.facebook.com/pokthebard
    http://pookofpok.blogspot.com/
    https://linktr.ee/pokthebard
    6 min
  • Pok: The Lecher
    The Lecher by Pok the Bard.
    Album: Anthology
    THE LECHER
    Lecher crawls, his fingers groping
    Skinny hands and eyes like fire
    Don’t you just want to know him?
    Really, I don’t think you wanna try!
    He’s the lecher
    He’s the lecher
    Lecher crawls, his fingers groping
    Skinny hands and eyes like fire
    Don’t you just want to know him?
    Really, I don’t think you wanna try!
    He’s the lecher
    He’s the lecher
    Lyrics by Simon Miller.
    Music by Simon Miller / George Davies.
    Copyright © 1982 Pok Songs / Explicit Music.
    Performers:
    Pok the Bard – voice, guitars
    Maxx Damage – bass
    Sven Stiglund – drums
    This arrangement by Pok, Maxx Damage and Sven Stiglund.
    Also creditworthy: Dick White, Roy Brimblecombe.
    Recorded, engineered and produced at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2012.
    Remixed and remastered at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.
    Originally released February 2012.
    First re-release July 2013.
    Second re-release June 2024.
    Copyright ℗ 2024 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    * The Lecher is in the glorious key of E major.
    * The tempo is 88 BPM with a 12/8 feel.
    * The Lecher is one of the oldest songs in the Wud Records pantheon of awesome music.
    * The Lecher was composed by Pok in the music rooms at The King's Grammar School, Ottery St Mary in the spring of 1982.
    * This song was included in the repertoire of Achilles Heel.
    * The Lecher is, in essence, a truly great riff enhanced by some jamming.
    * Pok plays all of the guitar parts on Betty the Bastard, a Tokai SG with a mean streak.
    * We invite the listener to listen out for the place where Pok doesn't play any notes at all and just makes some delightfully lecherish scratchy noises on the strings.
    * The Lecher was the first song that was finished for Pok's Anthology album.
    * It is no longer certain which ‘lecher’ in particular this song was about.
    * It was for certain one or more of the teachers at the aforementioned King’s Grammar School.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/anthology/
    https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/pok-bard/anthology/lecher
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-lecher
    https://linktr.ee/pokthebard
    5 min
  • Pok: Young Light
    Young Light by Pok the Bard.
    Album: Anthology
    YOUNG LIGHT
    When I'm close to you like this
    What is it that I miss
    Always takes so many years
    And meanwhile your conscience sneers
    To be always there
    Always there
    To be always there
    Always there
    Silver dust is in your hair
    You can become aware
    You can tell a sunset by the way she moves her eyes
    You can't catch the wind but you sure can try
    You can try
    Try
    You can try
    You can try
    Young light
    Young light
    You will always be turned on for me
    Young light
    I can hear you calling me
    You will always be turned on
    For us...
    Music and lyrics by Simon Miller.
    This arrangement by Pok, Fedax Si-Hulmin, Maxx Damage and Sven Stiglund.
    Copyright © 1983 Pok Songs / Explicit Music.
    Performers:
    Pok the Bard - vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
    Fedax Si-Hulmin - electric guitar, piano
    Maxx Damage - bass
    Sven Stiglund - cymbals
    Recorded and engineered at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, January 2013, then October 2016 and March 2017.
    Remixed, produced and remastered at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.
    Originally released 19th January 2013.
    First re-release 24th March 2024.
    Copyright ℗ 2024 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    * Young Light was composed in the summer of 1983.
    * The song is dedicated to the memory of the inspiration that Mark Drower brought.
    * It is in the key of G major.
    * There have been many versions of this song over the years, and this is the only one with a banjo.
    * Pok happened to have brought a banjo along on the occasion when this song was recorded and it seemed like a fun idea to include it.
    * Fedax came up with the little melodic motif on the piano and guitar in the "always there" and "you can try" sections many years previously.
    * There is no particularly discernable tempo.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/anthology/
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/young-light
    https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/pok-bard/anthology/young-light
    https://www.youtube.com/@poktv6148/videos
    https://www.facebook.com/pokthebard
    http://pookofpok.blogspot.com/
    https://linktr.ee/pokthebard
    3 min
  • Pok: Wear a Feather in Your Hat
    Wear a Feather in Your Hat by Pok the Bard.
    Album: Anthology
    WEAR A FEATHER IN YOUR HAT
    Well we came across some Indians, they were sitting in our road
    And with careful words we offered peace and them our weapons showed
    They made it and said that they sought a man with such purple skin
    If we had him there on board they’d scalp and do us in
    “It’s a long time since I saw such a man,” I said and they replied
    “OK, go on, you tell the truth. I can see it in your eyes.”
    Later on our road there was a boulder in our path
    Meg the man said “What can we do? No way can we get past.”
    I steamed a bit and thought a bit and said “This man tells the truth.”
    So I gave up being leader and sat down to pick my tooth
    Meg took on the role and quickly had it sussed
    With forty pounds of dynamite the rock he did bust
    Soon the cook was heard to cry: “There is no more water left in here! –
    I am making a casserole and the pot is boiling dry.”
    So I threw a coin up into the air, said: “This one I’ll try.”
    A few words from the good old book and rain fell from the sky
    “What was the other choice you had?” they asked and I replied
    “I don’t want to answer that now. Now let me out, I want to pass.”
    Vainly nightfall does its bit and we rattle on in dark
    Toothy starts a-singing, he says it’s for a lark
    Unfortunate for him it wakes something to cause his demise
    A stowaway that was on board pokes his head outside
    Toothy gets a fright and falls down and dies
    What was more was still to come – at night, colour lies
    Of the four of us left on the bus – Mook, Meg, Mog and I
    Not one of us did realise until the sun did rise
    That the new man who’d spent the night explaining who he was and where he’d been
    Had a case of the most purple skin we’d ever seen
    We whistled nervously ’til mid-afternoon
    Then Meg saw a bunch of Redskins, I fell down in a swoon
    Round about that time an eagle flies on down
    Says we gotta wrap it up here before we reach the next town
    So he does a bit of act shifting, messes around with our scene
    The Indians become a film projection on a Hollywood film screen
    What a pity they had to go like that, we could have made some friends
    The purple man smiles, disappears, and leaves a feather where he’s been
    Get up, stand up, be yourself, wear a feather in your hat
    If you truly believe in yourself you will remember that
    When you see your light a-coming, and come to you it will
    Expose yourself to its full rays and just soak up your fill
    You can be so lonely or you can be amazed
    Take my advice my friend and wear a feather above your face
    Get up, stand up, be yourself, wear a feather in your hat
    If you truly believe in yourself you will remember that
    When you see your light a-coming, and come to you it will
    Expose yourself to its full rays and just soak up your fill
    You can be a man of wud or you can go insane
    Take our advice my friend and wear a feather above your brain
    Music and lyrics by Simon Miller.
    Copyright © 1985 Pok Songs / Explicit Music.
    This arrangement by Pok, Maxx Damage and Sven Stiglund.
    Performers:
    Pok the Bard – voices, lead and rhythm acoustic guitars
    Maxx Damage – bass
    Sven Stiglund – drums, percussion
    Pok’s guitars and voices recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2017.
    Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.
    Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.
    Originally released 4th March 2024.
    Copyright ℗ 2024 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    See Explicit Music link below.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/anthology/
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/wear-a-feather-in-your-hat
    https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/pok-bard/anthology/wear-a-feather-in-your-hat
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/laughing-sun/indeed-1985/
    https://www.youtube.com/@poktv6148/videos
    https://www.facebook.com/pokthebard
    http://pookofpok.blogspot.com/
    https://linktr.ee/pokthebard
    6 min
  • Pok: The Sidewalk Song
    The Sidewalk Song by Pok the Bard.
    Album: Anthology
    THE SIDEWALK SONG
    Well I don’t care what you’re wearing
    No, I really don’t give a damn
    Just tell me where you’ve been, boy
    Cos I don’t know where I am
    And the sun don’t shine for you, it shines for me
    “G!!!”
    Well I don’t care what you’re wearing
    No, I really don’t give a damn
    Just tell me where you’ve been, boy
    Cos I don’t know who I am
    And the sun don’t shine for you, it shines for me
    Well I don’t care what you’re wearing
    No, I really don’t give a damn
    Just tell me where you came from
    Cos I’m lost in strawberry jam
    And the sun don’t shine for you, it shines for me
    (Improvised)
    Walking down the road almost every day
    I see the people and they’re coming my way
    I see their eyes and they’re looking at me
    Do you see them
    Do you see me
    I love you too
    Do you love me
    I know you
    Do you know me
    I say whooo!
    I see them walking almost every day
    See them walking and they’re coming my way
    I see their eyes and they’re looking at me
    You can’t kid me that you are free, no
    You can’t kid me that you’re free
    And the sun don’t shine for you it shines for me
    Well I don’t care what you’re wearing
    No, I really don’t give a damn
    Just tell me where you’ve been, boy
    Cos I don’t know who I am
    And the sun don’t shine for you, it shines for me
    And the sun don’t shine for you, it shines for me
    And the sun don’t shine for you, it shines for me
    Music and lyrics by Mark Drower / Simon Miller.
    Copyright © 1982 MGD Music/Pok Songs/Explicit Music.
    Performers:
    Pok the Bard – voices, lead and rhythm guitars
    Fedax Si-Hulmin – rhythm guitar, shaker, woodblock
    Maxx Damage – bass, maracas, cowbell
    Sven Stiglund – drums, guiro, bongos, congas
    This arrangement by Pok, Fedax Si-Hulmin, Maxx Damage and Sven Stiglund.
    Pok’s guitars and voices recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2017.
    Everything else recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2023-4.
    Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2024.
    Copyright ℗ 2024 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    * The Sidewalk Song is in the glorious key of E major.
    * The tempo is 120 BPM, or allegro moderato if you will.
    * The Sidewalk Song is one of the oldest songs in the Wud Records pantheon of awesome music.
    * It is full of the bombastic swagger of a young person who sees the world and its exciting possibilities beginning to open up.
    * The Sidewalk Song was first composed by Pok and Mark Drower and performed by Now.
    * This song was also included in the repertoire of Lemming Meringue and Wud, with Ken adding his own special flare to proceedings.
    * The Sidewalk Song in essence is a very simple song, with just four chords – E7, A7, G and D.
    * Pok, panned to the right, plays Betty the Bastard, a Tokai SG with a mean streak, and handles all of the lead breaks as well as the rhythm.
    * Fedax plays rhythm guitar on Nicodemus and is panned to the left.
    * During the breakdown, Fedax plays the clean riff in the centre and Pok is double tracked, left and right, for some guitar wizardry.
    * There is a shout of “G!!!”, as became traditional, to warn everyone that the first G of the song was approaching.
    * There are three definitive combinations of E7 and A7 on the guitars which you can read about at the Explicit Music website (see below).
    * The improvised vocal section was never performed quite the same twice.
    * Pok used a classic recording of Mark Drower singing during a 1982 Now session for his vocal improvistaion template.
    * Maxx uses distortion on his bass from after the breakdown section to the end.
    * Sven, Maxx and Fedax overdubbed their percussion parts, which Sven arranged.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/anthology/
    https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/pok-bard/anthology/the-sidewalk-song
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-sidewalk-song
    https://linktr.ee/pokthebard
    7 min
  • Pok: The Dark, The Ring, and The Knowledge
    The Dark, The Ring, and The Knowledge by Pok the Bard.
    Album: Anthology
    THE DARK, THE RING, AND THE KNOWLEDGE
    How can you tell if it’s friend or if it’s foe
    You never can be sure in the dark
    Reminding you of horrors read on someone’s older knee
    Keep you tucked well in your sheets
    A crack of light from out the sky
    The door swings to and fro
    Middle of night, what a fright
    Pick a movie slow
    Yes this is a world full of portals and windows
    We don’t know what lies beyond
    Stuck in a room you’ll play a sick tune
    If you don’t breathe the air outside
    Should you but one day walk on out
    See what you can find
    The darkness is a friend you know
    But seems to make us blind
    It’s been a long time since I took a walk
    With you by the stream
    So if you like we’ll go down there
    And talk of where we’ve been
    Lying in the water clear
    I found an ancient ring
    Gave it to you, I felt I ought
    I’m sure you’ve worn that one before
    Then you spoke to me about the fear
    That lies hidden out of view
    You want to know just what to do
    As if I held some clue
    Look within yourself my love
    Within will rule without
    But while you’re chasing phantoms round
    Make sure you’re getting something to laugh about
    You told me about a month on
    Woke up in the dead of night
    A wizard was there in your room all right
    You shuddered but it seemed OK
    He took hold of the ring that was
    Lying there on the desk
    And said “Oh child, you’re one of us
    But you must just wait a while.”
    And so we talked about this for a while
    How she coped with it all
    She seemed so much better now
    She faced her darkness came to her
    In knowledge of the ways and means
    Of fear of the unknown
    She found the way to all our hearts
    Is the way to her own
    Lyrics and music by Simon Miller.
    Copyright © 1985 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.
    This arrangement by Pok, Josh Reynes, Maxx Damage and Sven Stiglund.
    Performers:
    Pok the Bard – voices, guitars
    Josh Reynes – organ (left hand), piano (right hand), congas
    Maxx Damage – bass
    Sven Stiglund – drums, shaker
    Guitars, bass and voices recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Exeter, 2017.
    Drums, percussion and keys recorded at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2023.
    Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered at Wud Records Studio One, Central Europe, 2023.
    Original release date: 12th November 2023
    Copyright ℗ 2023 Wud Records.
    Fun Facts:
    * The Dark, The Ring, and The Knowledge is in the key of G.
    * The tempo is 78.5 BPM, or andante if you wish.
    * This song first appears on the Laughing Sun cassette called Indeed.
    * Pok wrote it in 1985.
    * It was based on an allegedly true story told by a friend of Pok and the wider Wud posse.
    * She apparently lost a piece of jewelry and then found it again, several years later.
    * It was lying on the tarmac of a country lane, many miles from where it had vanished.
    * She was always somewhat prone to rather odd events and may indeed have awoken one night with a benign wizardly stranger shuffling and poking about in her bedroom.
    * We believe the stream where Pok and his friend went walking was in Hoopern Valley, in the grounds of Exeter University.
    * Pok plays a delightful fingerstyle acoustic guitar on the Tanglewood.
    * His lead parts were performed on Marsha, a beautiful Ibanez Roadstar II that was later stolen.
    * Pok is accompanied on drums by Sven’s infectious dancehall shuffle.
    * Josh played piano and organ at the same time and almost in one take.
    * Sven and Josh overdubbed the percussion.
    * Maxx completes the ensemble with understated and precision bass that works perfectly.
    * For full details click the link to Explicit Music below.
    See also:
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/pok/anthology/
    https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/pok-bard/anthology/the-dark-the-ring-and-the-knowledge
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/anthology
    https://www.youtube.com/@poktv6148/videos
    https://www.facebook.com/pokthebard
    http://pookofpok.blogspot.com/
    https://linktr.ee/pokthebard
    6 min
  • The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Then Came the Last Days of May
    Then Came the Last Days of May by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    Album: Cosy Lube Turtle
    Then Came the Last Days of May is a cover song.
    Originally released by Blue Öyster Cult on their 1972 eponymous album.
    Music and lyrics: D. Roeser.
    This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    Inspiration drawn from the versions on the 1972 eponymous Blue Öyster Cult studio album, and the 1975 live BOC album On Your Feet Or On Your Knees.
    Then Came the Last Days of May was always a tremendously popular Bastard Sons of Dennis song. It was one of the first songs the duo ever performed, appearing in the duo's first ever live performance at The Angel in Exeter.
    The lyrics are a true story. This song was composed by Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser, guitarist and vocalist of Blue Öyster Cult, after three friends of his from Stony Brook University in New York were murdered in a drug deal that went very wrong.
    Derek would often change the word 'truck' in the line "Now and then a truck" to 'duck'. This was always hilarious, with his exemplary comic timing.
    Ducks became something of a theme for The Bastard Sons of Dennis. Fans would often bring their own toy ducks along to shows.
    Occasionally Chuck's lips wouldn't be moist enough to perform the little whistle that comes at the end of his solo. This was also very funny. Check would just end up blowing and puffing and shrugging in a comical way.
    The whistle actually comes from the 1970s uk sitcom The Goode Life. The character Tom Goode would often give this little whistle. Exactly where Tom took it from remains largely mysterious.
    Blue Öyster Cult perform this song in the key of E minor. The Bastard Sons of Dennis transposed it to A minor.
    The tempo increase after the first verse was Derek's suggestion. It was a very good one.
    Performers:
    Derek Broom - vocals, guitar
    Chuck Palmer - guitar, vocals, whistle
    Recorded and engineered at Wud Records Studio One in Exeter UK.
    Produced, mixed and mastered by George Davies 2023.
    Copyright © 1972 Columbia Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2023 Wud Records.
    Original release date 1st June 2011.
    Remixed and remastered version released 3rd October 2023.
    See also:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult_(album)
    https://genius.com/Blue-oyster-cult-then-came-the-last-days-of-may-lyrics
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/the-bastard-sons-of-dennis/
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosy-lube-turtle
    https://linktr.ee/bastardsonsofdennis
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    Here is a live version of The Bastard Sons of Dennis performing Then Came The Last Days Of May:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXYOrrKuTE0
    5 min
  • The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Before the Kiss a Redcap
    Before the Kiss a Redcap by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    Album: Cosy Lube Turtle
    Before the Kiss a Redcap is a cover song.
    Originally released by Blue Öyster Cult on their 1972 eponymous album.
    Music and lyrics: A. Lanier, M. Krugman, D. Roeser, S. Pearlman.
    This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    Inspiration drawn from the versions on the eponymous Blue Öyster Cult studio album and the live 1975 On Your Feet Or On Your Knees album.
    Before the Kiss a Redcap was a tremendously popular Bastard Sons of Dennis song. It was one of the first songs the duo ever performed live, and was performed more frequently than any of their other songs. Derek would usually change the "Conry's Bar" lyric to the name of whatever venue the duo were playing in.
    Performers:
    Derek Broom - vocals, guitar
    Chuck Palmer - guitar, vocals
    Recorded and engineered at Wud Records Studio One in Exeter UK.
    Produced, mixed and mastered by George Davies 2023.
    Original release date 15th November 2011.
    Remixed and remastered version released 3rd October 2023.
    Copyright © 1972 Columbia Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2023 Wud Records.
    See also:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult_(album)
    https://genius.com/Blue-oyster-cult-before-the-kiss-a-redcap-lyrics
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/the-bastard-sons-of-dennis/
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosy-lube-turtle
    https://linktr.ee/bastardsonsofdennis
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    5 min
  • The Bastard Sons of Dennis: Redeemed
    Redeemed by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    Album: Cosy Lube Turtle
    Redeemed is a cover song.
    Originally released by Blue Öyster Cult on their 1972 eponymous album.
    Music and lyrics: A. Bouchard, A. Lanier, H. Farcas, S. Pearlman.
    This arrangement by The Bastard Sons of Dennis.
    Inspiration drawn from the version on the eponymous Blue Öyster Cult studio album.
    Redeemed was always a tremendously popular Bastard Sons of Dennis song. It was one of the first songs the duo ever performed live.
    It was added to their repertoire for one of their first ever shows, which happened to be just before Christmas. They would describe Redeemed as their Christmas song, even if it was the middle of summer.
    The count-in for a live performance was "One, one." or two other random numbers. This was due to the rather odd amount of beats at the beginning.
    The guitars in this version were both recorded live at the same time in Wud Records Studio One. The vocals were added after.
    Performers:
    Derek Broom - vocals, guitar
    Chuck Palmer - guitar, vocals
    Recorded and engineered at Wud Records Studio One in Exeter UK.
    Produced, mixed and mastered by George Davies 2023.
    Original release date 1st June 2011.
    Remixed and remastered version released 3rd October 2023.
    Copyright © 1972 Columbia Music.
    Copyright ℗ 2023 Wud Records.
    See also:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult_(album)
    https://genius.com/Blue-oyster-cult-redeemed-lyrics
    https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/the-bastard-sons-of-dennis/
    https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cosy-lube-turtle
    https://linktr.ee/bastardsonsofdennis
    https://linktr.ee/wudrecords
    4 min

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