The Damned - Peel Session 1979 

Were they good?

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King George’s hall Blacburn

"evil spirits" is the best of the recent albums due to Paul Grey's return.his previous albums having been "the black album" and "strawberries".

Really? Their finest? Ok then.

Yeah listen to Rat go go go!

Rabid Love ....that shit spreads

Lol yes

Their best line up and MGE is their all time best album without any doubt. This session is just bloody brilliant.

@@mikebryan7060 The first album was probably the best, MGE a close second.

“The best” is always just a matter of opinion. Pure subjectivity. It’s your favorite album, more to the point. That said, there isn’t even any one album that I consider my favorite. There’s a three album run, that begins with MGE, through the Black Album, and finally with Strawberries… plus all the intermittent singles, EP’s, and side projects from that period (1979-1982). I could never narrow it down to just one album, no way. During that timeframe, *NO ONE* could touch them. I felt that way about it then, and I still do to this day, over 40 years later.

@@Shikta-poobah67 Were you not a fan of early Damned circa 78/79?

@@VincentRE79 I’m a huge fan of that era actually. They’ve been my favorite band for over 40 years. I love all the various different phases and lineups to some degree, even the MCA period and the weird early 90’s lineup with Alan Lee Shaw (live at least). The original lineup with Brian was absolutely amazing. It’s just that the whole ‘79-‘82 period, to me personally was the best of the best. Again, that’s just my personal preference. I’m not stating it as fact for everyone else.

I thought that was a different session, from earlier that year? The one with (I believe) Melody Lee and Burglar.

Actually, now that I’ve had some time to dig through the ol’ memory banks, that ‘missing’ session was from late ‘78, and it was the very first proper recording from the reformed lineup, or rather the MGE lineup (not to be confused with ‘The Doomed’, which featured Lemmy on bass). Vibracobra has generously uploaded that session on to his/her channel, but it’s taken from a cassette recording off the radio. He/she has done a bang up job of cleaning it up. Sounds great. You would almost think it was taken from the original master tape.

Rumour has it that Cliff Richard broke into the BBC late one night and took it for his own personal collection.

Could’ve done without the extended drum solo, but yes other than that minor complaint it doesn’t get any better.

Undoubtedly the best punk rock drummer of all time.

Only ‘underrated’ by the rock mainstream. He’s actually rated *VERY* highly by everyone I know, myself included.

Never thought I’d see the Damned and Meatloaf uttered in the same breath, much less mentioned with the same level of reverence, but then again this is 2023. This definitely wins the “most bizarre comment” award. Congratulations.

Were all very old & grey now! At least we know how great The Damned is & always will be! In musical history! & our lives!

The damned are original new wave george

It does doesn’t it ! Never heard this ending- neat

Um, Hendrix died 6 years before the Damned even formed. And Sensible played bass for the first 3 years.

@@aarthoor it took 5 long months for someone to take the bait.

You’re thinking of ZZTop.

I can’t believe there were actually people who took this at face value.

And too The Specials with "Gangster"

Cars, not Are Friends Electric mate.

And if you listen closely to the fade out on Disco Man, you’ll hear Paul break into “Walking On The Moon” by The Police.

i should think he would be sacked for being sober...

That guy is named 'Alasdair Mackie Ward' better known as Algy. He's a fantastic bassist, and funnily enough Lemmy was a big inspiration of his!

Algy is the guy with the yellow shirt to the right of sensible.i think it is Lemmy behind Mr scabies.

I have NEVER noticed that before! I think it’s Lemmy

Did you know it's Algy playing guitar and Bass on Liar all, Captain contributed was backing vocals?

Hey is that right? @@iltonwhite

@@Kelly14UK It certainly is mate, same on MGE too!

It’s been over two years and still no one has clicked thumbs up on this one. That should tell you all you need to know. 😅

@@Shikta-poobah67 Interesting.

I think Captain is on record as saying that Algy recorded practically nothing on MGE. It's nearly all Captain playing bass apart from the Love Song intro and Liar. The album was either all but completed by the time Algy joined, or Sensible thought he could do better.

@@Mistymisterwisty I know Captan once said that he played the Bass solo in Anti-Pope, but I've not known him say he did anything else Bass wise on the album, he may have wrote some of the lines (eg I just Can't Be Happy, Smash It Up pt 1) But having heard a good few bootlegs of the MGE line up, I'd say it's all mainly Algy on the album.

Personally, I think the bass sounds great on MGE! I was under the impression that the only track Ward didn't play on was "Smash It Up" as he didn't like it. I understood Sensible plays the bass on that track. Plus, Ward had been in the band for quite some time before they went into Wessex to record the album. I think it's true they had problems with Ward getting smashed a lot but I'm not sure whether this was live, in the studio or both.

@@Mistymisterwisty according to wikipedia and the back of the album, algy played bass on everything but smash it up (both parts) and just can't be happy today as well as the bass solo on anti-pope

@@MistymisterwistyI don’t know where or who you heard that from, but it’s a flat out fallacy. No truth to that whatsoever. I’ve had it on very solid sources for many years that Algy, though extremely inebriated (as was characteristic for him), played every single note of bass on that album, with the sole exception of “Smash It Up Pt 1”, which Captain played bass on. However he (Algy) did play bass on Part 2. Yes, the mix on the album isn’t the greatest with the bass, but if you listen closely you’ll hear his trademark style of picking with a steel plectrum. Especially at the beginning of “Love Song”.

Thanks for the lyrics! 😆

The lyrics would not be allowed these crappy pc days.happy innocent days!