Flood at Arbury Hall – circa 1972 Nuneaton rock band.
Played the Village (Colin Campbell in 1970 among the usual venues in Coventry.
The 1st track is Superstar by Flood. This was recorded at a rehearsal for a reunion/ party at Stockingford Conservative Club in October 1978 (with Stiletto and Fresh Maggots on the same bill). This was the 1st time the band had been back together for 5 years as Mike Warren was living in Canterbury and Mick Adler was living in Birmingham. So here it, is
Classical Gas
Another Flood track recorded during rehearsals in 1978. This one is a Flood arrangement of the 1968 Grammy winner – Classical Gas by Mason Williams and features the deft acoustic guitar work of Leigh Dolphin. From Dennis Burns site –
A and R (Broadgate Gnome)
That warm box/envelope sound, so 70s has come through the digitization, wonderfully, What was the original equipment Dennis?
Posted by: A and R | 12/11/2007 at 12:19 PM
Isotope (Kevin Harrison)
Good live sound recording Dennis, I’ll resist the temptation to ask if you have any ‘baked’ fresh maggots? Oops!
Posted by: Isotope | 12/11/2007 at 05:31 PM
Dennis Burns
For backline – although we used to use mainly Marshall back line in ’73 (I had a Marshall 100 driving 2 Marshall 4 x 12’s and later added a Marshall 50 driving another Marshall 4 x 12; and Mick had a Hiwatt 100 driving 2 x Marshall 1 x 18″‘s). For this rehearsal recording however we borrowed Stiletto’s backline (I used Grahams Fender Bandmaster 50 driving a Marshall 4 x 12, Mick used Arun’s Fender Bassman 100 driving 2 Fender 2 x 15″‘s (I think) and Leigh used my Fender Pro Reverb 50.
The rehearsal was recorded on my old Sony TC630 reel-to-reel recorder which I sold years ago – I think I used Shure SM58’s for mikes..
Posted by: Dennis Burns | 12/11/2007 at 11:52 PM
Dennis Burns
Thanks Kev, It is surprising considering it was recorded just using a stereo pair in an empty club room… Re Baked Maggots – LMAO…
Posted by: Dennis Burns | 12/11/2007 at 11:54 PM
HOBO – Coventry Music Magazine
Fresh Maggots / The Flys – we have more insect bands than Liverpool!
Posted by: HOBO – Coventry Music Magazine | 12/12/2007 at 12:38 PM
Dennis Burns
FYI, Aorta Majors “rent-a-crew” live fan base were nicknamed “The Insects”……
Posted by: Dennis Burns | 12/12/2007 at 12:45 PM
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Dennis Burns has had a long association with FRESH MAGGOTS
Leigh Dolphin of Fresh Maggots played Rhythm guitar for Flood at one stage. Their music
was progressive. acoustic / electric and their RCA album from 1971 -Hatched is now a cult album sort after by those into progressive rock. Check their Vox site out. Dennis was their sound engineer and roadie. Dennis also form a duo with Leigh Dolphin called DBXLD –
Dennis has played with a number of Coventry or Nuneaton bands including Hunter, Flood, Dodo, Stiletto, Aorta Major The Mix, Urge. His son Nick plays now in JUB and his other son Matt plays in Simple Notion.
