It's unjust how Scotland's finest and the fearless purveyors of tartan chic in the rock world (long before that screaming banshee Axl Rose!) have been left unmentioned so far (here without their lead singer Les McEown, who had by then been unceremoniously dismissed from the Rollers):
The above version can unfortunately not be embedded, but here's a blurry embeddable excerpt of a long pants version:
And before everybody smirks: If you ignore slightly chubby (the good life on the road ...) Herr Faulkner's shaved legs for a while (some of you might find that hard to do, I know) and listen to this slo mo version of Rebel Rebel (kind of as if Bowie had incuded it on the cool and collected Young Americans rather than the more manic Diamond Dogs) it does grow on you after a while. Interesting bass playing from Woody (what kind of bass is that?
) and Eric Faulkner's fluid and Hendrixy lead playing sounds more SRV than BCR to me! It lends credibility to an interview Faulkner once gave to Melody Maker claiming that he "had already been through my heavy metal phase with five minute guitar solos and all" prior to joining the Rollers.
Someone finally speak up: Do we have a witness amongst us who saw them live in the seventies? I would have if I would have had the chance. While I generally preferred Sweet, my ears told me even then that as a band BCR were less heavy-handed.
Uwe
