Why write an article about pub-rock? Why not ?!! Well, this is not
an article in the truest sense of the word, it's a kind of sum up
over the most important artists/bands of the era. There's not much
info to be found anywhere, so this is my humble attempt trying to
do something about it .....
Pub-rock is a neglected, overseen genre with loads of goodtime music
which absolutely deserves a wider recognition. The pub-rock genre
covers a lot of ground musically. Pop, rock, soul, blues, country
jump'n'jive and beyond. Take a dose of each this styles, put it in
a shaker, shake it well and pour your self a pint......and you have
a potent mix of exciting, tasty and durable liquid which tastes like
nothing else.
The pub-rock scene had it's golden period from the early seventies
and onwards to the start of the eighties. Of course a lot of bands
and artists plays in the pubs today, but the pub-rock as a phenomenon
was at its peak in this period. It's said that the pub-rock as a phenomenon
was a reaction to all those dinosaur and mastodont bands which reigned
at the time. And there's no doubt about that the pub-rock scene was
the inspiration for the punk scene to happen.
To find information about the pub-rock scene and its bands and artists,
is not an easy task, but some very useful sources has to be mentioned:
Terry Hounsome's
great rock reference book "Rock Record" (now available on
CD-rom as well as the good old book version !), Virgin's Encyclopedia
books about music, The Guinness' Who's Who books, articles from the
long gone Swedish magazine LARM (what an excellent magazine it was
!) and maybe most of all, the liner notes and bits and pieces taken
from the covers of my own record collection.
To
the artists/bands