{"id":5583,"date":"2019-05-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2019-05-19T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T16:03:08","slug":"graham-day-and-the-forefathers-good-things-damaged-goods-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5583","title":{"rendered":"Graham Day And The Forefathers – \u2018Good Things\u2019 (Damaged Goods Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Graham Day and his compadres Wolf Howard and Allan Crockford have been part of the fabric of British garage rock for decades now. Yet, unless you\u2019re a fan of the Medway sound via Billy Childish, you probably haven\u2019t heard of them. You\u2019ve been missing out, but fear not! This reissue with three extra tracks is an ideal starting point.<\/p>\n

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From The Prisoners to The Senior Service, Day has quietly been carving a career in quality tunes, be they of a garage, mod or psychedelic flavour. You can rely on him to come up with the goods. Put simply, he\u2019s as good as Weller thinks he <\/em>is.<\/p>\n

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From the opening title track, it doesn\u2019t disappoint. \u2018Mary\u2019 has the immediacy of Steve Marriott fronting The Who, especially with the fluid bass line. \u2018Can\u2019t Get You Out Of My Mind\u2019 brings out the wah-wah and flailing drums, while \u2018I Am The Fisherman\u2019 has a melody and harmonies worthy of The Flamin\u2019 Groovies.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Sitar Spangled Banner\u2019 is one of Day\u2019s favoured instrumentals, complete with Hammond. Of the extras, \u2018Love Me Lies\u2019 sees Graham flex his fingers, some far out solos, as does Hendrix cover \u2018Freedom\u2019, an equally groovy hip-shaker, and \u201930-60-90\u2019 is another instrumental which The Fuzztones and The Morlocks should be fighting over.<\/p>\n

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Most tracks are live, with vocals recorded in one take, and all the better for it. If you love your garage rock, this is the perfect introduction to Graham Day\u2019s back catalogue. While gigs are rare, on 26th<\/sup> May, The Forefathers play Margate Mod and 60s Festival.<\/p>\n

Buy ‘Good Things’ Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Author: Martin Chamarette<\/p>\n

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Graham Day and his compadres Wolf Howard and Allan Crockford have been part of the fabric of British garage rock for decades now. Yet, unless you\u2019re a fan of the Medway sound via Billy Childish, you probably haven\u2019t heard of them. You\u2019ve been missing out, but fear not! This reissue with three extra tracks is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1608,2048,2043,2042,2044,2045,2046,2047],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-billy-childish","tag-british-garage-rock","tag-damaged-goods-records","tag-graham-day-the-forefathers","tag-the-fuzztones","tag-the-morlocks","tag-the-prisoners","tag-the-senior-service","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}