Rare 7" The Alternators No Answers UK NRG kbd Punk
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Rare NRG Records 7" The Alternators - No Answers - Kid Dont Know pressed in 1978 this is one of 1000 SRTS/NRG 001. In a plain sleeve as no pic sleevs was issued. VG++ plays great!
I have borrowed the following text from a wicked website called www.boredteenagers.co.uk to give you a bit of history of The Alternators
The members of the band are:-
Martin Geldart – Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Colin Warnock – Rhythm & Lead Guitar, Singer, Louis O’Neil – Keyboards, Backing Vocals,Wayne Hutton – Drums
The band got together in 1976 . They wrote all their own material and used to support bands such as The Stranglers, The Ramones and the Skids.
We used to have our own large PA system so we tended to hire this to the promoter of many gigs, one of those gigs was at the "Marriot Hall" in Dundee playing on the same bill as The Rezillos. We arrived first and set up the PA and all our gear, the Rezillos arrived late and did not appreciate the amount of equipment we had. So therefore they complained to the promoter and said they would not play. When Colin was talking to the promoter, Faye Fife from the Rezillos walked up behind him with a stiletto heeled shoe in her hand and was going to hit him on the head, we shouted to Colin and he turned round and smacked her and she went reeling across the floor as you can imagine this gig did not go ahead!!!We used to support a lot of bands because we were one of the few bands in Scotland that a Hammond C3 organ. This enabled us to play many a support. We recorded a single which was a Double A side No Answers / The Kid Don’t Know. It took a year to get the singles pressed due to the small quantity in those days your order went according to the pressing numbers subsequently when the reviews were written we got accused of sounding similar to the Stranglers when in reality we were wrote and recorded before they were famous. We went to London in pursuit of recording contract first stop was Virgin were told they could not take us on as they had just signed Devo the day before. We then tried the same publishing Company as the Stones use and they offered us a Contract, the band could not make a unanimous decision on whether to sign with them or not so they told us to get out!!! We then decided to come home to Scotland a few things were not quite right in the band anymore and therefore a few months later the band broke up. by Martin Geldart July 2003 from www.boredteenagers.co.uk
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