Crazy Cavan 'n' The Rythm Rockers - It's wild it's weird it's crazy
1996 and Crazy Cavan 'n' The Rhythm Rockers are still the greatest Teddy Boy band of all time. Track 13 is wonderful!
1.Teenage shaker 2.Blue days 3.Let's go crazy 4.Railroad station 5.Evil heart 6.Rock to the rhythm 7.Wild cat scream 8.Mr. Past, Mr. Present, Mr. Future 9.Wild, it's weird, it's crazy 10.Now she's my bride 11.Who's gonna rock ya? 12.Chasing rainbows 13.Wake me upCrazy Cavan 'n' The Rhythm Rockers
Personnel:- Cavan Gogan - vocals, harmonica
- Lyndon Needs - lead guitar
- Terry Walley - rhythm guitar
- Steve 'Vance' - Vincent - bass
- Mike Coffey - drums
Special guests:- John Jenkins - piano (tracks 1, 2 & 13)
- Colin (Eddie) Edwards - slap bass (tracks 3,8 & 11)
- Brian (Bunner) Davies - drums (tracks 6 & 10)
- Peter Beese - lead guitar (track 10)
- Recorded at Horse Shoe Studios, Magor
- Mixed by Dave Woods, Broad Oak Studios - Monmouth
- Produced by Cavan and Lyndon
- Cover photo Cavan age 12, layout by Tudor Williams
It was during the early sixties that the popularity of Rock'n'Roll music was at its lowest. 1960 saw the media pushing sloppy Bobbie and Frankie type crap and watered down Elvis look-alikes, etc., until the explosion of the Liverpool beat groups came and everything. Amongst teenagers at this time, to mention even the words 'rock'n'roll' brought scorn (Ironic really, when you consider that even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones relied on Chuck Berry songs). Teddy Boys were labelled along with the Greasers and the Ton-up boys as 'Rockers' for their love of 50's Rock'n'roll music, which by now was considered out-dated. If you went to a dance you saw only beat groups playing the chart hits of the time. So if you were an 'oddball' who still loved real wild Rock'n'Roll, it was impossible to find. The answer, as far as five teenage Teddy Boys from Newport, South Wales, were concerned, was to play it themselves.
'Crazy' Cavan Grogan started out as 'Screamin' Count Dracula & the Vampires', along with Lyndon Needs, Terry Walley and Gerald Bishop. Although they loved doing those first early gigs, the band was short-lived due to their young ages and no one having a driving licence. It was a good start though, and encouraged by those who went to see them, they knew that, despite the media who wouldn't play it, Rock'n'Roll wasn't dead and forgotten, and there were still thousands of kids out there who hadn't even heard of Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent or Johnny Burnette.
Cavan's sound was first heard of as far back as 1964, when Cavan Grogan, Lyndon Needs and Terry Walley decided to form a group which at first was called 'Count Dracula and the Vampires' and later for a short time was known as 'The Sundogs'. In 1968 Cavan, Lyndon and Terry teamed up with wild boogie piano player Brian Thomas and bass player Don Kinsella, as 'The Sundogs'. They were soon knockin' 'em dead in the local clubs. Cavan and the boys were out 'n' out Rock'n'Roll fans before anything! They played the music because they loved it and not because it was the 'in thing'.......
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