Wasn't that idiosyncratic combined rhythm/lead licks/solo-playing patterned after this guy?
Back in the Dr. Feelgood craze in 1976/77, Wilko would always cite Mick Green as his role model in interviews, it really was "Mick Green here, Mick Green there". And the Dr. Feelgood success actually pushed the Pirates back into the limelight too who had before been relegated to the oldies circuit.
I gather Johnny Kidd & The Pirates never meant much in the US then?
I saw Mick Green last shortly before his death in Van Morrison's band at a concert in Frankfurt, Van the Man was - as usual - in a bad mood and the band was much too quiet for the hall, but Green's guitar playing still stood out.
*************I can't let this post finish without
drawing a connection to you-know-who ... Shortly before Johnny Kidd's tragic death in a car crash, there was a Pirates line-up featuring
Nick SimperYes, him with the (fiesta?) red P-Bass - lovely playing in the middle eight at 01:15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrXA7D1_9uc&list=RDwrXA7D1_9uc&index=1And to make matters worse, a late line-up of the Pirates (still with Green on board) featured
Johnny Gustafson on bass and lead vocals:
Yes, him before the Orange rig:
And here with beard and one of the earliest Wal basses: