{"id":437,"date":"2018-09-01T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/09\/01\/the-true-expression\/"},"modified":"2018-09-01T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T20:04:00","slug":"the-true-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/09\/01\/the-true-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\">The True Expression<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: x-large\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>Charley Anderson<\/b> (Ex Selecter) &#8220;My first taste of engineering live sounds touring with this band from Coventry. <b>Gaps Hendrickson<\/b> roadie, <b>Tony Banger Walsh <\/b>was the chief security officer \ud83d\ude09 Vocalist <b>George E Austin, Vernon Clarke<\/b> and <b>Don Mayers<\/b> were TRUE EXPRESSIONS the best soul vocalist band from Coventry.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VghKaZw60iU\/W4r8eYxVjrI\/AAAAAAAAHDU\/kY6QFuZ_ceIlnhTKKLpuVcWpKBDt7H5BgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/13895179_10154407478687363_5974892390964938608_n.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"395\" data-original-width=\"355\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-VghKaZw60iU\/W4r8eYxVjrI\/AAAAAAAAHDU\/kY6QFuZ_ceIlnhTKKLpuVcWpKBDt7H5BgCLcBGAs\/s640\/13895179_10154407478687363_5974892390964938608_n.jpg\" width=\"574\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial\">&#8220;Charlie Aitch from Gloucester arrived in Coventry with Lynval where they were living and playing some music. They came to Coventry to join up with local music guru Ray King. I went on the road mixing for a soul band True Expression, sang and sometimes played bass and also learned to play the rhythm pans with the Tropical Harmony steel band at week end they always have a gig and I was never out of work. Lynval ended up with Jerry Dammers in the Automatics (The pre Specials) Aitch and I formed Hard Top 22 consisting of the members who would eventually become the Selecter: Gaps, Aitch, Desmond, Komie Amanor, and I.&#8221; From an interview with Charley Anderson via Marco the Bass.&nbsp;<b>http:\/\/marcoonthebass.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/exclusive-interview-with-charley.html<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/coventrybands.blogspot.com\/p\/coventry-bands-index.html\">BACK TO THE BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The True Expression Charley Anderson (Ex Selecter) &#8220;My first taste of engineering live sounds touring with this band from Coventry. Gaps Hendrickson roadie, Tony Banger Walsh was the chief security officer \ud83d\ude09 Vocalist George E Austin, Vernon Clarke and Don &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2018\/09\/01\/the-true-expression\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/437"}],"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=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}