Chords for Wilko Johnson Talks about Early Gigs With Lee Brilleaux & Dr Feelgood 9.7.12
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At the same time the band started I got a job as a teacher.
This didn't last very long, it was just a couple of terms up until the summer when I went
professional which meant I was earning four or five pounds out of lots of buildings.
And we spent a couple of years playing locally in Southend and Canberra Island and we weren't
very highly regarded.
What we were doing was the kind of stuff I love, you know, the
reference point is the Rolling Stones I think and that's what we wanted to do.
But we weren't by no means highly regarded but we got it together.
And the thing was I know, I mean first of all it was pretty rough musically but I know that
Lee Brillo was a star.
He just radiated this guy and I started taking it seriously when playing.
This guy's a star and all the way through Dr.
Felgood, the stage shows and that, I take my
cue from Lee and people think it's a double act and stuff like that.
It's not actually, it's Lee.
I'm watching Lee all the time and I go because Lee says go.
Yeah, so we've got this kind of, we've got the look of it and the kind of music we were doing
and [N] then we started playing in London and quickly made a name because the whole [Eb] thing was there.
Bam!
It was ideal for those clubs and pubs in London.
[N] Another thing that was happening was
when we were still working locally we got a gig backing this character called Heinz.
Now Heinz is a singer, he had a hit record in the 60s right but he had kind of
ended up, I think he was selling advertising copy for the Evening Echo or something.
So anyway, Lee had answered an advert in the local shop and we got this job backing Heinz
which involved us, we were going to do 45 minutes and Will Heinz on and he would do it.
It would
just be all Eddie O'Clock, I mean he was a talent free area Heinz, believe me.
But the thing was in Teddy Boy clubs, now we would get much more money than what we
could get on our own account so it was worth it and one of the things Heinz got for us was early
about August, this is 1972, he got a place and they had this thing called the Wembley
Rock and London Rock and Roll Show and this was a show, this said Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, it was a fantastic show and Heinz got us a place on this
show, he got himself a place on this show right.
It was all this kind of English rubbish to open
the show and again there were a couple of things I remember from that, we're in this battered old
transit van and we're driving towards Wembley Stadium, you see those towers, I mean it was
really frightening right and then the next thing I'm standing on stage thinking this is ridiculous,
I mean this is idiot Heinz, [Gm] it's Wembley [D] Stadium, it felt good to me, I think I just sort of [G] like
do this you know.
Anyway a bit later on, all the dressing rooms are under the stairs right and I
start strolling out the front, see what's going on and this band is on man, I think bloody hell,
they're obviously Americans, they just got this confidence right and they got this band, they got
one, there's a guitar player and dressed in black with shades on and he's golden like Tutankhamun,
there's another guitar [N] player who's silver like a spaceman and then the singer's got this
ridiculous afro and I realised quite quickly it's the MC5.
Now I was familiar with their
records which I kind of dug and but seeing them with it, this was fantastic, I mean look at this
guitar player, this Wayne Kramer and the first number I don't know if you're familiar with,
they do that Rambling Rose and he [Eb] sings it in this falsetto voice, they were doing that
[N] and he's suddenly going sideways, I thought yes, I took notice of that and anyway the Teddy Boys
who were at the front, they did not like it man, when you play Teddy Boys you've got to play all
Eddie Cochran, you've got to have a DA and you know drape and everything, they didn't like it.
Teddy Boys stopped throwing cans at them right, it's getting pretty heavy and I remember one
point Wayne Kramer, he's going across the stage and he booted this can, he got it right on his
toe and it bounced right back and he didn't break his stride and I thought this guy's a live one
and after they'd come off I went up to him and I said oh man I've got to tell you,
it's absolutely great, I really really dug what you were doing and he was like you know quite
miserable I was saying, he started saying to me oh man I think if we'd have had another 20 or 30
minutes we could have won, I said no you couldn't man, I said they're Teddy [Db] Boys and I started
telling him all about Teddy, I'd say explain to him all about Teddy Boys, I [Eb] love this thing,
now then there is a DVD you can get of the [D] story of the MC5, [Db] I've forgotten what it's called right,
but anyway it's a very good thing and what it is, it's Wayne Kramer driving around Detroit
and telling the story of MC5, it's actually quite, gets quite [Eb] moving at the end and there's this bit
where he's describing when they came to London and when they did this show and they had this bad
show, you know and it really is quite sad and [B] then he goes because they had these things
there called Teddy Boys and I told him that, and he did it, he gave my exact rant about Teddy Boys
and I think man [N] I've got to get in touch with him and say listen that might have been the end of the
world to you, the pitch you know like having a bad show like that, but it was one guy watching it and
you changed his life,
This didn't last very long, it was just a couple of terms up until the summer when I went
professional which meant I was earning four or five pounds out of lots of buildings.
And we spent a couple of years playing locally in Southend and Canberra Island and we weren't
very highly regarded.
What we were doing was the kind of stuff I love, you know, the
reference point is the Rolling Stones I think and that's what we wanted to do.
But we weren't by no means highly regarded but we got it together.
And the thing was I know, I mean first of all it was pretty rough musically but I know that
Lee Brillo was a star.
He just radiated this guy and I started taking it seriously when playing.
This guy's a star and all the way through Dr.
Felgood, the stage shows and that, I take my
cue from Lee and people think it's a double act and stuff like that.
It's not actually, it's Lee.
I'm watching Lee all the time and I go because Lee says go.
Yeah, so we've got this kind of, we've got the look of it and the kind of music we were doing
and [N] then we started playing in London and quickly made a name because the whole [Eb] thing was there.
Bam!
It was ideal for those clubs and pubs in London.
[N] Another thing that was happening was
when we were still working locally we got a gig backing this character called Heinz.
Now Heinz is a singer, he had a hit record in the 60s right but he had kind of
ended up, I think he was selling advertising copy for the Evening Echo or something.
So anyway, Lee had answered an advert in the local shop and we got this job backing Heinz
which involved us, we were going to do 45 minutes and Will Heinz on and he would do it.
It would
just be all Eddie O'Clock, I mean he was a talent free area Heinz, believe me.
But the thing was in Teddy Boy clubs, now we would get much more money than what we
could get on our own account so it was worth it and one of the things Heinz got for us was early
about August, this is 1972, he got a place and they had this thing called the Wembley
Rock and London Rock and Roll Show and this was a show, this said Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, it was a fantastic show and Heinz got us a place on this
show, he got himself a place on this show right.
It was all this kind of English rubbish to open
the show and again there were a couple of things I remember from that, we're in this battered old
transit van and we're driving towards Wembley Stadium, you see those towers, I mean it was
really frightening right and then the next thing I'm standing on stage thinking this is ridiculous,
I mean this is idiot Heinz, [Gm] it's Wembley [D] Stadium, it felt good to me, I think I just sort of [G] like
do this you know.
Anyway a bit later on, all the dressing rooms are under the stairs right and I
start strolling out the front, see what's going on and this band is on man, I think bloody hell,
they're obviously Americans, they just got this confidence right and they got this band, they got
one, there's a guitar player and dressed in black with shades on and he's golden like Tutankhamun,
there's another guitar [N] player who's silver like a spaceman and then the singer's got this
ridiculous afro and I realised quite quickly it's the MC5.
Now I was familiar with their
records which I kind of dug and but seeing them with it, this was fantastic, I mean look at this
guitar player, this Wayne Kramer and the first number I don't know if you're familiar with,
they do that Rambling Rose and he [Eb] sings it in this falsetto voice, they were doing that
[N] and he's suddenly going sideways, I thought yes, I took notice of that and anyway the Teddy Boys
who were at the front, they did not like it man, when you play Teddy Boys you've got to play all
Eddie Cochran, you've got to have a DA and you know drape and everything, they didn't like it.
Teddy Boys stopped throwing cans at them right, it's getting pretty heavy and I remember one
point Wayne Kramer, he's going across the stage and he booted this can, he got it right on his
toe and it bounced right back and he didn't break his stride and I thought this guy's a live one
and after they'd come off I went up to him and I said oh man I've got to tell you,
it's absolutely great, I really really dug what you were doing and he was like you know quite
miserable I was saying, he started saying to me oh man I think if we'd have had another 20 or 30
minutes we could have won, I said no you couldn't man, I said they're Teddy [Db] Boys and I started
telling him all about Teddy, I'd say explain to him all about Teddy Boys, I [Eb] love this thing,
now then there is a DVD you can get of the [D] story of the MC5, [Db] I've forgotten what it's called right,
but anyway it's a very good thing and what it is, it's Wayne Kramer driving around Detroit
and telling the story of MC5, it's actually quite, gets quite [Eb] moving at the end and there's this bit
where he's describing when they came to London and when they did this show and they had this bad
show, you know and it really is quite sad and [B] then he goes because they had these things
there called Teddy Boys and I told him that, and he did it, he gave my exact rant about Teddy Boys
and I think man [N] I've got to get in touch with him and say listen that might have been the end of the
world to you, the pitch you know like having a bad show like that, but it was one guy watching it and
you changed his life,
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At the same time the band started I got a job as a teacher.
This didn't last very long, it was just a couple of terms up until the summer when I went
professional which meant I was earning four or five pounds out of lots of buildings.
And we spent a couple of years playing locally in Southend and Canberra Island and we weren't
very highly regarded.
What we were doing was the kind of stuff I love, you know, the
reference point is the Rolling Stones I think and that's what we wanted to do.
But we weren't by no means highly regarded but we got it together.
_ And the thing was I know, _ I mean first of all it was pretty rough musically but I know that
Lee Brillo was a star.
He just radiated this guy and I started taking it seriously when playing.
This guy's a star and all the way through Dr.
Felgood, the stage shows and that, I take my
cue from Lee and people think it's a double act and stuff like that.
It's not actually, it's Lee.
I'm watching Lee all the time and I go because Lee says go. _
_ _ Yeah, so we've got this kind of, we've got the look of it and the kind of music we were doing
and [N] then we started playing in London and quickly made a name because the whole [Eb] thing was there.
Bam!
It was ideal for those clubs and pubs in London.
[N] Another thing that was happening was
when we were still working locally we got a gig backing this character called Heinz.
Now Heinz is a singer, he had a hit record in the 60s right but he had kind of
ended up, I think he was selling advertising copy for the Evening Echo or something.
So anyway, Lee had answered an advert in the local shop and we got this job backing Heinz
which involved us, we were going to do 45 minutes and Will Heinz on and he would do it.
It would
just be all Eddie O'Clock, I mean he was a talent free area Heinz, believe me. _
But the thing was in Teddy Boy clubs, now we would get much more money than what we
could get on our own account so it was worth it and one of the things Heinz got for us was early
about August, this is 1972, he got a place and they had this thing called the Wembley
Rock and London Rock and Roll Show and this was a show, this said Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, it was a fantastic show and Heinz got us a place on this
show, he got himself a place on this show right.
It was all this kind of English rubbish to open
the show and again there were a couple of things I remember from that, we're in this battered old
transit van and we're driving towards Wembley Stadium, you see those towers, I mean it was
really frightening right and then the next thing I'm standing on stage thinking this is ridiculous,
I mean this is idiot Heinz, [Gm] _ it's Wembley [D] Stadium, it felt good to me, I think I just sort of [G] like
do this you know.
Anyway a bit later on, all the dressing rooms are under the stairs right and I
start strolling out the front, see what's going on and this band is on man, I think bloody hell,
they're obviously Americans, they just got this confidence right and they got this band, they got
one, there's a guitar player and dressed in black with shades on and he's golden like Tutankhamun,
there's another guitar [N] player who's silver like a spaceman and then the singer's got this
ridiculous afro and I realised quite quickly it's the MC5.
Now I was familiar with their
records which I kind of dug and but seeing them with it, this was fantastic, I mean look at this
guitar player, this Wayne Kramer and the first number I don't know if you're familiar with,
they do that Rambling Rose and he [Eb] sings it in this falsetto voice, they were doing that
_ _ [N] and he's suddenly going sideways, I thought yes, I took notice of that and anyway the Teddy Boys
who were at the front, they did not like it man, when you play Teddy Boys you've got to play all
Eddie Cochran, you've got to have a DA and you know drape and everything, they didn't like it.
Teddy Boys stopped throwing cans at them right, it's getting pretty heavy and I remember one
point Wayne Kramer, he's going across the stage and he booted this can, he got it right on his
toe and it bounced right back and he didn't break his stride and I thought this guy's a live one
and after they'd come off I went up to him and I said oh man I've got to tell you,
it's absolutely great, I really really dug what you were doing and he was like you know quite
miserable I was saying, he started saying to me oh man I think if we'd have had another 20 or 30
minutes we could have won, I said no you couldn't man, I said they're Teddy [Db] Boys and I started
telling him all about Teddy, I'd say explain to him all about Teddy Boys, I [Eb] love this thing,
now then there is a DVD you can get of the [D] story of the MC5, [Db] I've forgotten what it's called right,
but anyway it's a very good thing and what it is, it's Wayne Kramer driving around Detroit
and telling the story of MC5, it's actually quite, gets quite [Eb] moving at the end and there's this bit
where he's describing when they came to London and when they did this show and they had this bad
show, you know and it really is quite sad and _ [B] then he goes because they had these things
there called Teddy Boys and I told him that, and he did it, he gave my exact rant about Teddy Boys
and I think man [N] I've got to get in touch with him and say listen that might have been the end of the
world to you, the pitch you know like having a bad show like that, but it was one guy watching it and
you changed his life,
This didn't last very long, it was just a couple of terms up until the summer when I went
professional which meant I was earning four or five pounds out of lots of buildings.
And we spent a couple of years playing locally in Southend and Canberra Island and we weren't
very highly regarded.
What we were doing was the kind of stuff I love, you know, the
reference point is the Rolling Stones I think and that's what we wanted to do.
But we weren't by no means highly regarded but we got it together.
_ And the thing was I know, _ I mean first of all it was pretty rough musically but I know that
Lee Brillo was a star.
He just radiated this guy and I started taking it seriously when playing.
This guy's a star and all the way through Dr.
Felgood, the stage shows and that, I take my
cue from Lee and people think it's a double act and stuff like that.
It's not actually, it's Lee.
I'm watching Lee all the time and I go because Lee says go. _
_ _ Yeah, so we've got this kind of, we've got the look of it and the kind of music we were doing
and [N] then we started playing in London and quickly made a name because the whole [Eb] thing was there.
Bam!
It was ideal for those clubs and pubs in London.
[N] Another thing that was happening was
when we were still working locally we got a gig backing this character called Heinz.
Now Heinz is a singer, he had a hit record in the 60s right but he had kind of
ended up, I think he was selling advertising copy for the Evening Echo or something.
So anyway, Lee had answered an advert in the local shop and we got this job backing Heinz
which involved us, we were going to do 45 minutes and Will Heinz on and he would do it.
It would
just be all Eddie O'Clock, I mean he was a talent free area Heinz, believe me. _
But the thing was in Teddy Boy clubs, now we would get much more money than what we
could get on our own account so it was worth it and one of the things Heinz got for us was early
about August, this is 1972, he got a place and they had this thing called the Wembley
Rock and London Rock and Roll Show and this was a show, this said Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, it was a fantastic show and Heinz got us a place on this
show, he got himself a place on this show right.
It was all this kind of English rubbish to open
the show and again there were a couple of things I remember from that, we're in this battered old
transit van and we're driving towards Wembley Stadium, you see those towers, I mean it was
really frightening right and then the next thing I'm standing on stage thinking this is ridiculous,
I mean this is idiot Heinz, [Gm] _ it's Wembley [D] Stadium, it felt good to me, I think I just sort of [G] like
do this you know.
Anyway a bit later on, all the dressing rooms are under the stairs right and I
start strolling out the front, see what's going on and this band is on man, I think bloody hell,
they're obviously Americans, they just got this confidence right and they got this band, they got
one, there's a guitar player and dressed in black with shades on and he's golden like Tutankhamun,
there's another guitar [N] player who's silver like a spaceman and then the singer's got this
ridiculous afro and I realised quite quickly it's the MC5.
Now I was familiar with their
records which I kind of dug and but seeing them with it, this was fantastic, I mean look at this
guitar player, this Wayne Kramer and the first number I don't know if you're familiar with,
they do that Rambling Rose and he [Eb] sings it in this falsetto voice, they were doing that
_ _ [N] and he's suddenly going sideways, I thought yes, I took notice of that and anyway the Teddy Boys
who were at the front, they did not like it man, when you play Teddy Boys you've got to play all
Eddie Cochran, you've got to have a DA and you know drape and everything, they didn't like it.
Teddy Boys stopped throwing cans at them right, it's getting pretty heavy and I remember one
point Wayne Kramer, he's going across the stage and he booted this can, he got it right on his
toe and it bounced right back and he didn't break his stride and I thought this guy's a live one
and after they'd come off I went up to him and I said oh man I've got to tell you,
it's absolutely great, I really really dug what you were doing and he was like you know quite
miserable I was saying, he started saying to me oh man I think if we'd have had another 20 or 30
minutes we could have won, I said no you couldn't man, I said they're Teddy [Db] Boys and I started
telling him all about Teddy, I'd say explain to him all about Teddy Boys, I [Eb] love this thing,
now then there is a DVD you can get of the [D] story of the MC5, [Db] I've forgotten what it's called right,
but anyway it's a very good thing and what it is, it's Wayne Kramer driving around Detroit
and telling the story of MC5, it's actually quite, gets quite [Eb] moving at the end and there's this bit
where he's describing when they came to London and when they did this show and they had this bad
show, you know and it really is quite sad and _ [B] then he goes because they had these things
there called Teddy Boys and I told him that, and he did it, he gave my exact rant about Teddy Boys
and I think man [N] I've got to get in touch with him and say listen that might have been the end of the
world to you, the pitch you know like having a bad show like that, but it was one guy watching it and
you changed his life,