Chords for Steve Gibbons Band: Rollin’ – The Albums 1976-1978, 5CD Remastered & Expanded Box Set

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_ Hi, I'm John Kirkman.
I'm a music journalist and broadcaster based in the UK and welcome
to the John Kirkman Files.
What we do here is we talk about music.
We don't go into massive
great lengths about who made the cover or who produced it, but we do tell you about
what is available and it's something you may have missed.
Let's face it, we're all very
busy these days getting our lives back to normal, but I want to talk today about this.
Steve Gibbons Band.
Do you remember them?
Well, you would if you were in the UK. _
Steve
Gibbons was a well-known face around Birmingham in the late 60s and early 70s.
They got signed
to Polydor Records in the mid-70s and the band, as well as Steve Gibbons, also included
the bass player from The Move, Trevor Burton.
Trevor was also in a band called Balls with
Steve Gibbons.
Now, if you look at that, that's the original _ first album sleeve and the album
was called Any Road Up.
Now, _ there's a Who connection with this particular band.
What
is it?
I hear you say.
Well, they were managed by a guy called Pete Meaden.
Now, Pete managed
the High Numbers, which of course was The Who just prior to calling themselves The Who.
So they got support slots with The Who and they went down really well.
They're one of
these bands you could say were very, very good on the live circus.
What you get in here,
you get five albums and four of the albums have bonus tracks on. _
_ Now, they all look rather
her suit in the early days.
But what happened was when punk hit, which there you go, that's
Steve Gibbons before he went through his change of image.
He cut his hair shorter and he shaved
his beard off.
In fact, most of the guys did.
They all look pretty much like your kind of
touring band, pretty much like they did on that.
And that was the first album sleeve.
It's a great album as well.
And they were very, very good on the live circuit.
They
were a good draw on the live circuit.
And they also had a couple of hit singles, Eddie
Vortex from an album called In The Bunker.
And that was the second album sleeve, again,
just before punk broke.
And then after that, there was a live album _ and it was a very,
very cheap mid priced album, the live album.
It was called Caught In The Act.
Again, here's
pictures of the band pre makeover.
_ _ But they were a great little band and they sort of
played lots of universities and things like that.
There you go.
There's the live album
again.
Still looking pretty suit.
Now, by the time, as I said, we get to _ _ In The Bunker,
that's Steve Gibbons then.
Newly shaven, _ newly shorn.
And they did a great version of Chuck
Berry's song, Clay, which was always like the nearly always the encore with this band.
So you get all the albums in the little pochettes like that's the best one.
And you wrote up
rolling on _ _ and then you have Caught In The Act.
That's really a great record, a great live album.
They did a lot of universities, as I've said, probably a few pub gigs as well at the time,
because the pub rock scene was still very much in evidence at that time.
There is the
_ In The Bunker.
There's a single on there called Eddie Vortex, which they did on Top The Pops
few times.
I'm fairly hit with that.
And there you go.
_ _ Final disc.
Now, the great thing about
the Steve Gibbons band, _ occasionally Steve Gibbons will go out _ and tour as some of do some dates as
the Steve Gibbons band.
But like all the little box sets that Cherry Red do, you get a wonderful
booklet _ and you get a lot of information and they're all very, very reasonably priced as well.
And you get the kind of full collection.
This is all pretty much all of the albums that the Steve
Gibbons band did in the mid to late 70s when they were on Polydor Records, which was the height of
their success, really.
Polydor did a great job of them.
They were one of the few bands as well who
continued to have success, even though punk had broken and they were probably slightly older than
their, _ should we say, punk _ _ compatriots.
Although probably a lot of the punks in the 70s knocked a
few years off their age.
So there wasn't that much difference, let me tell you.
But these were a great
band to go and see.
If you went to see them at a club or you went to see them at the university,
you're always guaranteed a great night.
Now, what do you do when you want to buy this?
You go to
cherryred _ .co.uk. Go to the search button, type in the box, Steve Gibbons band.
This will come up and
it'll give you a whole lot of information about their track listing, etc.
It's all on the back
here.
If you're like me and you're sight of challenge, or you're getting a bit old, _ you may
be better off looking at it on your computer and making the print a little larger.
But they were a
fabulous band live and there's a great live album in there.
And of course, Tulane is on there as well.
And it's got all the albums as they came out from about 1974, late 74, early 75.
And _ including when
they sort of went through, should we say, a change of image [G] when punk hit in [B] 1976, 77.
Great band,
great music.
And I think you'll like it a lot.
If you like a good time rock and roll band,
Steve Gibbons band definitely fits the bill. _ _
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