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anyone got the bob markley solo shit?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 22 November 2002 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i thought he was just a hanger on looking to score some high school chicks?

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

search: Legend

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 22 November 2002 03:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Never seen any. Are you sure it's worth hunting out tho? I thought his role in the WCPAEB was a: play the tambourine b: sign the cheques c: fuck the teenagers. *thinks* Second thoughts, if you find any let me know.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Friday, 22 November 2002 09:58 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, both of you are correct, he just banged tambourines and girls (do you see what i did there etc etc)

i think that Markley wasnt so much a solo project as a band, not entirely sure though

i have 'Roger The Rocket Ship' on an old tape somewhere, this is the only track i have from that 1970 lp. i remember it being good, although its a while since i've heard it

if anyone knows someone called Dom in Liverpool, he has this lp (i've not seen him since i was about 19 though)

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 22 November 2002 10:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Markley wrote a lot of the lyrics for the WCPAEB and therefore deserves at least half the credit for the fact that anyone cares about them nowadays.

He recorded a couple of 7"s in pre-WCPAEB days, one of which I have on a CDR somewhere but it's fairly generic and dull. There was also the last WCPAEB LP entitled "Markley - a group" which I haven't heard, and probably wouldn't want to, as I can't stomach them after the guy with the nice voice left and they went all Iron Butterfly circa "Where's My Daddy".

Ptolemaic Terrascope tracked down the other WCPAEB members a while back, they were all still nursing grudges against Markley and none of them knew if he was dead or alive.

― pulpo, Friday, 22 November 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

i still dont have this album. i'd still like to hear it

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

i have it now. its a wcpaeb record, but because markley held the purse strings and was an egomaniac, he changed the bands name to his own.

the record is lighter and airier than the other records, without the self-consicous freakoutisms, its also, less good than i hoped, initially at least. roger the rocket ship is great, 60s soft-pop/psyche, but hungover into 1970 (moment passed), its the highlight of the album for definite

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 20 May 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

so anyway, would wcpaeb have been a better band without bob markley? im sure the others think so, and it cant have been much fun having him in the band, but did the tension between the two aims mean that something different came out of it?

and, is he dead, or in an asylum? it seems unclear

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 22 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Markley: A Group is a fucking great album. I don't know that it's better than WCPAEB stuff but it's got such a unique vibe.

― "Third of the Storms" Jazz (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 28 December 2019 09:56 (six years ago)

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