{"id":234,"date":"2022-02-13T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/02\/13\/the-motion\/"},"modified":"2022-02-13T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T18:50:00","slug":"the-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/02\/13\/the-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Motion<\/b><\/div>\n
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BACK TO THE BAND INDEX<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n
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Line up<\/b>:  ‘Sabu’ Allen Parsons<\/b>  replaced by Paul Kennelly<\/b> (vocals), Dave Sutton<\/b> (guitar), ‘Lil’  Reg Galland<\/b> (bass), Granville (Con) Barber<\/b> (drums). Kennelly<\/b> replaced ‘Sabu’ Allen Parsons.<\/b> Became Revolution<\/b> in 1969.<\/div>\n
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Paul Kennelly replaced Allen Parson and after only one gig the band changed their name to Revolution<\/b>. Later Revolution was reformed for a while with Allen Parsons<\/b> on vocals again. This time they called themselves Revolution 69<\/b>. (See the post for Revolution)<\/div>\n
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Paul Kennelly<\/b> tells us ” The bass player, who had a rather nice Beatle Bass Hofner, was called Reg Galland.<\/b> He was a neighbour of the drummer, Granville Barber. Dave Sutton used to calll Reg ” Lil ” … that was Reg’s mothers name.<\/div>\n
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After Dr Slagg’s Confessions<\/b> were consigned to the bin I went to The Navigation<\/i>,  Sunday 19th January 1969 for a pint of Mrs Arkle’s fine Ale and to see what the Scene  was.  A band from Bedworth were playing. They were called The Motion<\/b>. Their vocalist was “ Sabu ” Allen Parsons<\/b> who used to jump over several chairs in a line as part of his stage act. I don’t recall Sabu being there on that night.  At the end of the evening, guitarist Dave Sooty Sutton approached me and asked was I interested in joining. The band were a bit rough at the edges and I really wasn’t sure. On the following Tuesday I rang and agreed to do a gig with them as a try out. This was at The Hare and Hounds<\/i> in Keresley.<\/div>\n
I agreed to join on the understanding that the name be changed. I honestly think they did not realise the alternative meaning of the word “MOTION”.  On January 26th The Motion changed it’s name to “REVOLUTION”. Within a week of seeing the band at the Navgation, we had re-named and re-launched.   I replaced singer Alan ” Sabu ” Parsons in the band The Motion in January 1969.   One problem with The Motion was that they were all very young (when I joined Dave Sutton was still at school ). Revolution lifted the band on to a new level and it ceased being a School mates band and became semi pro standard. This did not suit everyone (some had studies etc to attend to) and so , Reg Galland left the band and he was replaced on Bass guitar by Pete Smith (ex NEW CITY SOUNDS). ” From  https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Peppermint-Kreem\/136585376392428<\/a><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Sabu – Allen Parsons<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n


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Allen and Julie Parsons<\/div>\n
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This is The Motion –<\/b> reformed and live after 40 years in Bedworth much with Allen Parsons on Harmonica and Vocals.<\/span><\/div>\n


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More about Paul Kennelly and Peppermint Kreem background.<\/span><\/div>\n
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  The Motion Circa 1968-1969    BACK TO THE BAND INDEX Line up:  ‘Sabu’ Allen Parsons  replaced by Paul Kennelly (vocals), Dave Sutton (guitar), ‘Lil’  Reg Galland (bass), Granville (Con) Barber (drums). Kennelly replaced ‘Sabu’ Allen Parsons. Became Revolution in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}