Long Tall Texans "Saturnalia!" 1989

Back in Brighton 1982 it wasn’t that easy to get your hands on a double bass, even if you did you’d be lucky to get more than a free grope in a music shop because those things were bloody expensive. Well out of the range of 16 year old Mark Carew. This story would have ended there, with our hero stood hands in empty pockets gazing longingly at a lovely curvy double bass in front of a shop window before mooching sadly off into obscurity...
...Lucky for the last 30 years of double-bass abusing music there was a saviour at hand in the shape of Kevin McCormick aka ‘Spider’. He’s remembered first and foremost for not only owning a double bass and then lending it to Mark but as a ‘Colourful, great fun, a cheeky chappy, endearing, the sort of guy who’d take the piss out of you and you’d still love it.’ So our story begins with a lent bass and Mark Carew learning to slap some notes on that borrowed instrument.
Fast forward a year or so and Mark has become proficient enough on that bass to team up with guitarist Mark ‘Boggles’ Denman and drummer Bill Clifford. Together they formed a trio they called The Long Tall Texans. It wasn’t long after the band reached those lofty heights of, well being a band, that drummer Bill quit the trio and rock n roll. Nobody seems to know exactly why but one rumour was that he decided on a career at the local hamburger emporium.
Truth or fiction, it was a bad move for Bill but where one door shuts another opens. Anthony (Theo) Theodotou drumsticks in hand happened to walk in through this one. That line-up were immortalised on wax for the first time when two tracks, ‘900 Miles’ and ‘One More Time,’ performed live at the school Boggles taught at, were included on a locally released album entitled ‘Sounds Of The Southern Scene’...to be continued... - http://www.longtalltexans.co.uk/
trax:
01 Get Back, WetBack 02 Crossing Swords 03 Don't I Know It 04 Fill It Up Tight 05 Low Down Mean Old Son Of A Gun 06 Cairo 07 Shiver Street 08 Bloody 09 Mercy, Mercy 10 No Tomorrow