<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n CHEVY<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span>(This band Line Up: <\/b><\/span>Steve <\/span>End of 1981 They have a <\/b><\/span>For the “<\/span><\/span>Martin Cure <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Singles<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Too much <\/span><\/span>The Taker <\/span><\/span>Just <\/b><\/span>Album <\/b>– The <\/span><\/span>1. The <\/span><\/span>From Bob <\/span><\/span>The Chevy After a few <\/span><\/span>Avatar The band The Chevy Chevy were Red on Red<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Chevy AFTER CHEVY<\/b><\/p>\n Martin Cure <\/span>who before Paul Andy Steve Barry Ted Duggan<\/b> Bob Poole<\/b> – <\/span>After a short involvement with Billy Rankin of The I suppose Next came Encouraged, we sent to them again and a guy working in the publishing We were by <\/span><\/span>From Pete <\/span><\/span>\u201cWell the \u201cBut we are Chevy had a Ears began Plenty more <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Martin Cure<\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n Bob Poole<\/span><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Chevy 1980’s<\/span><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CHEVY BAND INDEX CHEVY (This band formed out of CUPID’S INSPIRATION who had a hit single c 1968) Line Up: Steve Walwyn – Guitar \/ Martin Cure – Vocals, Guitar \/ Andy Chaplin – Drums (at some point) \/ Paul … Continue reading ![](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEglokjcf4C25MoUyVBvjn-TEnMAnVNjZqhj1Sl8ZXi-32gY1d_lEt__f4xUFHnHK8hVqvw9T3_MW2WHEa4TcOZJ7NM145KCMrlDn_jiELYSMOucVr8SflvlfVyp50uSjIR5kbdKNm9it3NKx36TnnD5OiAjcTcyZMCdeaMEcWaap06BlP765pHVfR3wlA\/s720\/62517_165295190147518_150397718303932_571181_3443013_n.jpg\")
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\nformed out of CUPID’S INSPIRATION who had a hit single c 1968)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWalwyn<\/b> – Guitar \/ Martin Cure<\/b> – Vocals, Guitar \/ Andy Chaplin<\/b> – Drums (at some
\npoint) \/ Paul Shanahan<\/b> – Guitar \/ Bob Poole<\/b> – Bass<\/span><\/p>\n
\n– Steve Walwyn<\/b> and Andy Chaplin<\/b> had been replaced by Baz Eardley<\/b> on Guitar and
\nTed Duggan<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
\npage on Facebook – <\/span>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Chevy-150397718303932\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\nPete Chambers Backbeat article<\/b> – view here –<\/span><\/p>\n
\none and the same as Martin Cure of “the Peeps” . Ted was also in
\nPurple Haze in the 60’s, Drops of Brandy in the 70’s, Paris in the 80’s, Chevy
\nin the 80’s and The Mudsliders with Baz Eardly, Clive Layton, Tim on bass, Greg
\nCrab vocals. He’s played for Banco De Gaia and from time to time the Two Tone
\nCollective and is now involved with the reformed Chevy and Dark Side of the
\nMoon – a Pink Floyd tribute band. Martin \/ Andy \/ Paul \/ Bob were all in the
\nhit group Cupid’s Inspiration – see Bob Poole’s story below.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nloving \/ See the light – July 1980 – Avatar Records<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\/ Life on the run – Mid 1981<\/span><\/p>\n
\nanother day \/ Rock on – late 1981<\/span><\/p>\n
\nTaker – September 1980<\/span><\/p>\n
\nTaker 2. You got me running 3. Skybird 4. Chevy 5. Too much loving 6. Turn on
\nthe light 7. Shine on 8. Cold and lonely 9. Rock on<\/span><\/p>\n
\nPoole – 2010<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
\nstory – <\/span>Once upon a
\ntime there was a band called Cupid\u2019s Inspiration. Cupids had a number 1 hit
\nrecord in <\/span>England
\nwith a song called \u201cYesterday has gone\u201d and then went on the slow road toward
\nthe \u201cone hit wonder\u201d graveyard.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nline up changes the group stabilized by 1971 with the following personnel:
\nMartin Cure (vocals) Bob Poole (bass) Paul Shanahan (guitar) and Andy Chaplin
\n(drums). In the middle of the 70\u2019s the musicians began to write songs together.
\nBy the late 70\u2019s the band were, in tandem with the \u201cCupids\u201d gigs, organizing
\nlocal pub rock gigs under the name of \u201c4 wheel drive\u201d to play rock music and
\ntry out their own songs and began building up a strong local following. At this
\ntime they recruited a second guitarist, Steve Walwyn, from another local band
\nto build up the twin guitar sound the boys had decided would best suit their
\nown music.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nRecords<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
\nhad by this time relocated from London to Leamington Spa in the midlands as a
\nbetter base to travel to gigs around England. The next step was to build a 2
\ntrack-recording studio in the drummers attic and begin recording demo\u2019s which
\nwere then sent in to every record company in England. A reaction came from
\nBronze records publishing department and the song \u201cChevy\u201d was placed In
\nFebruary 1980 on the EMI compilation album \u201cMetal for Muthas Vol. II\u201d. Chevy
\nwent on to sign a record deal with Avatar Records, a new company formed by
\nJerry Rafferty\u2019s former publishers, Robert Patterson and John Brewer. The first
\nrelease, the single \u201cToo much loving \/ See the light \u201c was in July 1980. At
\nthat time the group were playing a lot of concerts (for example touring with
\nAlvin Lee and Hawkwind).<\/span><\/p>\n
\nalbum \u201cThe Taker\u201d was released in September of the same year and received
\nexcellent reviews in all the major British music papers. In spite of the good
\nreviews in the music press and the bands great live performances, and not
\nentirely undue to the record company\u2019s inefficiency, the album sold too slowly
\nto achieve national chart success. In the middle of 1981 their second single
\n\u201cThe Taker\/Life on the run\u201d was released. Chevy\u2019s third and last single \u201d Just
\nanother day \/ Rock on\u201d was recorded soon after and had a limited release. By
\nlate 1981 Steve Walwyn and Andy Chaplin had gone on to pastures new and been
\nreplaced by Baz Eardley on guitar and Ted Duggan on drums.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nstill touring England but relationships with their record company and
\nmanagement were getting strained and by the end of that year Chevy sued their
\nrecord company for breach of contract and quit Avatar just three weeks before
\nthey were scheduled to record their second album. With the new line up Chevy
\nplayed a radio one live In-concert for the BBC with support coming from Rock
\nGoddess. The BBC later compiled and broadcast a Radio 1 In-Concert with Chevy
\nas support to Gary Moore.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nfinally split around 1982\/83). In 1983 Martin Cure, Bob Poole, Paul Shanahan,
\nSteve Walvyn, Ted Duggan, Bob Jackson (ex- Indian Summer, ex-Badfinger) decided
\nto begin a new group called Red on Red. Unable to secure a new record deal and
\nafter one year Red on Red was dissolved. They later added a second keyboard
\nplayer, Mark Steeds. Ted Duggan handed over his place to Paul Brook -drums, who
\nin the 70\u2019s had been playing in Cupid\u2019s Inspiration.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nCupids Inspiration and then Chevy, was the vocalist with such bands as The
\nPeeps, Rainbows and Still life, set up good time R&B band The Rogues and he
\nstill performs with them today. He is the owner of P.A. Company \u201cCable P.A.\u201d
\nand with some of his old friends occasionally does Cupid\u2019s Inspiration gigs.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nShanahan<\/b> – <\/span>Laid down
\nhis guitar for some years during which time he became the sales director of a
\nBritish chemical company. Recently, due partly to his sons\u2019 interest in music,
\nhe recently picked up the guitar again and found that it was good.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nChaplin <\/b>– <\/span>in the 80\u2019s
\nplayed with the DT\u2019s and the Steve Marriott Band (ex Small Faces\/Humble Pie)
\ntogether with Steve Walwyn. He now plays with The Razors and occasionally, The
\nSteve Walwyn Band. He runs a market garden and he is involved in other music
\nprojects including live promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWalwyn<\/b> – <\/span>was playing
\nin The Mosquitoes (1982), The DT\u2019s (1982-89), Steve Marriott Band (87-89), from
\n1989 his main group has been Doctor Feelgood. Between tours with the Feelgoods,
\nhe has worked with Eddie and The Hot Rods (92), Roger Chapman Band, Big Town
\nPlayboys (94), Rogues (94),The GB\u2019s, Steve Walwyn Band (96).<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEardley<\/b> – <\/span>is now a
\nguitar teacher. After he left Chevy he played in Atomic Rooster, The Mudsliders
\n(with Ted Duggan) and he was co-operating with B. Lea Bradford and Naked Blues.
\nHe was also short listed to replace Micky Moody in Whitesnake. From 2004 he
\nplayed in Coventry based rock group Iron Horse and in 2009 teamed up with Ted
\nDuggan and Bob Poole to form the three-piece power rock band The Motorvators.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n– <\/span>Past and
\ncurrent bands \/ artists include The Drifters, Badfinger, Desmond Dekker,
\nPauline Black, Rankin Roger, The Beat, Roddy Radiation, Horace Panter, Steve
\nWalwyn, The Selecter, Paul Horn, Mark Feltham, James Eller, John Wardi Ward,
\nCupids Inspiration, and for 20 years he is still working with popular modern
\ndance music performer Banco da Gaia and with Badfinger and The Mudsliders as
\nwell as teaching drums. He is a session musician and has played Drums for Elton
\nJohn, From 2004 he was playing with Coventry group Iron Horse (with Barry
\nEardley) until in 2009 he formed the rock power trio The Motorvators with Baz
\nEardley and Bob Poole.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNazareth fame he lived in Germany until 2009 where He played bass with the
\nWhitesnake and Deep Purple cover band Snakebite, sang and played bass with the
\nrock band Shark Sandwich, guitar and vocals with the acoustic duo Back To Back,
\nplayed lead guitar and sang with the acoustic group Side by Side, Bass guitar
\nand vocals with the country\/Irish American folk group Country Balls and put
\ntogether an acoustic solo show that has taken him around the world. He has also
\nwritten songs and produced records for various German groups. Bob Poole is now
\nback in the UK where he is playing bass and singing with Baz and Ted in the
\nMotorvators as well as pursuing his solo career.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nabridged Chevy story by Bob Poole <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
\nfor me it all started in 1965 when my family moved from a small village in
\nGloucestershire to Leamington Spa in the Midlands of England. Leaving school at
\n15 years of age, I went to work in local shops and Hotels changing jobs
\nfrequently as, from the age of 13, I had already decided that my future lay in
\nmaking music. My first guitar was a plastic 4 string thing with a picture of
\nElvis on the head. A year later my Grandfather, who was himself an ex
\nprofessional entertainer and singer, bought me a Broadway 3 pickup electric
\nguitar with an action about 3 inches above the fret board. I would plug this
\ninto my Dansette record player and piss off the neighbours, my family and
\nsurrounding wild life banging out tunes on single strings (didn\u2019t know what a chord
\nwas). When we arrived in Leamington Spa I met up with a guy called Rick Purcell
\nwho had an electric guitar and long hair. He showed me what a chord was and off
\nwe went. Formed our first group \u201cBlues Condition\u201d and tried to play the blues. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cTobias Heat\u201d, playing Cream and Hendrix stuff. A guy my age lived down the
\nroad from us and we would have friendly competitions playing our guitar as loud
\nas possible as the other walked past, trying to impress. He was in a soul group
\ncalled \u201cJalopy Ride\u201d and <\/span>his name
\nwas Paul Shanahan. Paul then went off to play for 6 months in Canada and when
\nhe returned he got a job with Cupids Inspiration. I was well pissed off until
\none day not long after he asked me if I would like to be their roadie. I
\nimmediately said yes as this was a chance to travel and be on the road and who
\nknew what might happen? In 1971 I got my break. We were in Scotland in
\nKirkcaldy on New Years Eve, a big money night and Cupids bass player was too
\ndrunk to stand up on the stage. I had been watching carefully and knew all the
\nsongs so I grabbed his bass and said words to the effect of \u201cI can do that\u201d.
\nThat was my first real professional gig and from then on I became a bass
\nplayer. The old bass player left not long after and I got the job. Almost
\nimmediately Paul and I started writing songs. It soon became apparent that we
\nwere more rock than pop orientated and as Martin Cure, our singer had already
\nbeen down that road with his former bands \u201cRainbows\u201d and \u201cStill Life\u201d, we
\ndecided to risk the secure income from \u201cCupids\u201d and turn into a rock band. We
\nfound a scruffy old Hotel in Leamington called the Crown and began to put on
\ngigs every Thursday night playing under the name of 4 Wheel Drive, covering
\nbands like Boston, Thin Lizzy and Steely Dan while slipping in our own songs –
\nuntil in the end we were just playing our own stuff and had an average audience
\nof 200 people each gig. (We used to spend the Wednesday before the gig building
\na 24 ft-wide stage and rigging up loads of spotlights that we had stolen
\nindividually from Cupids gigs). One of the support bands on those gigs called
\n\u201cHands Off\u201d had a guitar player named Steve Walwyn and as we liked his playing
\nand needed a second guitarist in the band we asked him to join us. He gave up
\nhis day job and played with us on the still active Cupids gigs (where we earned
\nour money) and became quickly involved in the song writing and developing of
\nthe \u201cChevy\u201d sound. <\/span>The next
\nstep was to build a recording room in the attic of drummer Andy Chaplin\u2019s attic.
\nThere, with a 2 <\/span>track reel
\nto reel machine, we recorded our first demo\u2019s bouncing tracks up to eight or
\nmore times. (The first song we recorded there was \u201cSkybird\u201d). Then we painfully
\ncopied hundreds of demo cassettes which we posted off to all the record
\ncompanies in London. Nobody reacted until, due to poor quality control, we sent
\na blank tape to Bronze records who sent back a letter asking where the music
\nwas.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ndepartment picked up on the song \u201cChevy\u201d and put it forward to E.M.I. as a
\ntrack on the new compilation album \u201cMetal For Muthas volume two\u201d. It was used,
\nunfortunately, in it\u2019s by then 4 track demo form so sounded shit but got us a
\nstart with the companies. The Bronze guy then left to work for newly formed
\nrecord company \u201dAvatar\u201d and took our demos to them and, after some meetings, we
\nsigned with Avatar. We went straight into Pye studios and recorded the first
\nsingle \u201cToo Much Loving\u201d and then a week or two later began to record the
\nalbum. The album was recorded in three weeks under extreme duress with a spaced
\nout producer who sometimes didn\u2019t seem to know the time of day but in the end,
\nafter one week of mixing, it was finished. We were never satisfied with the
\nfinal production and hated the sound of it as we had in our heads a picture of
\nhow we should sound and the producer didn\u2019t come close. However, it got
\nfavorable reviews and sold slowly but well (about 40,000 copies were pressed
\nfor England and there were limited releases in other countries).<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthen constantly touring with people like \u201cAlvin Lee\u201d and \u201cHawkwind\u201d, playing
\ngigs with Gillan <\/span>and other
\nrock luminaries and we recorded two BBC live in concerts, one with the original
\nChevy line-up playing with \u201cThe Tygers of Pan Tang\u201d and later a second with
\nChevy mark 2 as support for \u201cGary Moore\u201d. It was not long before the shit
\nstarted with the record company. The usual \u201cthe cheques in the post\u201d etc., the
\nfall through of the proposed American tour and release (later Avatar told us it
\nwas their fuck up and said sorry)! We had three major record companies fly to
\nEngland from America to see and hear the band and they wanted to sign us for
\nthe States but Avatar held out for too much advance money so they called the deal
\noff. This left a rather unhappy group and soon we had problems amongst
\nourselves that ended up with a new Chevy line-up, Baz Eardley from Coventry
\nreplacing Steve Walwyn on guitar and Ted Duggan, also a Coventry kid, replacing
\nAndy Chaplin on drums. We were scheduled to record our second album at that
\ntime in Island studios with a French rock producer but three weeks before the
\nsessions began, knowing we would never see a penny from Avatar for our work; we
\nsued the record company for breach of contract and left them. You don\u2018t get
\naway with that trick in London and the word was out on us as trouble so nobody
\nwould give us the new deal we needed and there came a day not too much later
\nwhen I said to the band \u201cI\u2019ve had enough\u201d and the rest seemed to agree so we
\nsplit up. There was a third Chevy incarnation a couple of years later for about
\none year. We called ourselves \u201cRed On Red\u201d, had the same line up as the
\noriginal Chevy except Ted stayed on drums and we added two keyboard players,
\nMark Steeds and Bob Jackson. We wrote new songs and recorded some BBC sessions
\nand did some T.V. stuff and live gigs but again, couldn\u2019t get a record deal
\nthat suited us so we shut that one down too. As far as Chevy is concerned, the
\nrest, as they say\u2026\u2026\u2026 Bob Poole – 2010<\/span><\/p>\n
\nChambers Backbeat article – On the Reunion<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
\nbulk of the material, is of course coming from The Taker album.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nalso doing some rare stuff, that would have been on the second album, had we
\nrecorded it. Our normal two part-guitar harmony is giving way to three-part,
\nwith the addition of original guitarist Steve Walwyn. It\u2019s the first time the
\nthree guitarists have all played on stage together.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\ngreat reputation, and if you want to know why, well make sure you don\u2019t miss this
\none, as it may never happen again….<\/span><\/p>\n
\npricking when the band gained a prize spot on the EMI Metal For Muthas Vol 2
\nalbum with the track Chevy, and the anticipation grew.In 1980 they released The
\nTaker and won a shed-load of fans in the process”<\/span><\/p>\n
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