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Not bad, not bad

Apparently Rod Stewart’s first release

Not sure about some of the phrasing and that opening guitar line sounds a little stilted. Love the bass line tho’.

I also know that I wasn’t doing anything at all halfway that competent at the age of 18.

9 thoughts on “Not bad, not bad”

  1. Not sure about some of the phrasing and that opening guitar line sounds a little stilted
    When was this? ’64? Wonder who was playing on it? Jagger? Richards? Plant? They shared a lot of line-ups. This was pretty well Brit blues being invented.

  2. I also know that I wasn’t doing anything at all halfway that competent at the age of 18.

    Rod was doing something under the age of 18, apparently.

  3. I was looking at what Mr Stewart,R & various other members of that circle were doing in that period. A lot of familiar places. Studio 51, Cousins, Marquee of course, The Troubadour, Bunjies in Lichfield Street (Lou who used to run it at the time lived in Gants Hill of all places. Later passed to Bert Jansch. I can remember Amory Kane, draft dodging Yank used to serve coffees in between singing/guitar sets. Lived upstairs in Powis Square. Heard he disappeared for good on the Afghanistan trail. )
    Here’s a question. Anyone remember a cellar club in a street, just round the corner from the Old Brompton Road. Lot of bands played it. I think I’ve identified the locality on StreetView but all sign of it’s vanished. So’s the Blues Club in Russell Gardens, alas.

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