tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4715391421025431709.post996549148864500180..comments2024-01-30T00:07:35.346-08:00Comments on Vinyl Antiquity: How Heavy Metal Is Just Childish Sludge And Rockin' Horse And The Beatles Rock- Some Key ObservationsBlake Mitchnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030930034615249961noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4715391421025431709.post-76846615295428370862013-11-26T14:22:13.174-08:002013-11-26T14:22:13.174-08:00You certainly got the spirit of the Rockin' Ho...You certainly got the spirit of the Rockin' Horse album right, and all concerned were of the opinion that something special had occurred when the record was finished. One misconception that has continued over the years is that it was a Liverpool band. Although Jimmy, Billy and I were all from Liverpool, I was living in London, along with Stan and Bobby was working as a session man. Stan was a Londoner, and Bobby was a Scotsman.<br />The project was a vehicle for Jimmy and Billy initially, and the other three of us were basically hired guns, although a group closeness developed over the making of the album, and we were given more leeway by producer Hal Carter, also a Liverpool man and Billy Fury's legendary road manager, than was usually the case for session men. However, Billy and Jimmy were definitely in the drivers' seat throughout.<br /><br />In an interesting twist, the only live appearances that Rockin' Horse ever made were as Chuck Berry's backing band on his hugely successful 1972 European tour( which spawned "My Ding-A-Ling"), and as Stan and Bobby didn't do that tour, we went out as a true all-Liverpool quartet, Dave Harrison (a Liverpool friend of Billy and Jimmy) taking the drum chair over from Stan.<br /><br />It's been a great source of satisfaction that the album, which sank without a trace when first issued, has become such a highly thought of piece of work in subsequent years, due to the various re-issues, although, sadly, Jimmy and Hal didn't live to see it.<br /><br />Michael Snow<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com