THIS IS THE BLOOD GROUP SPECTACULA, NO RELATION TO DRACULA - Levi Tafari

0. THE ORIGINAL BLOOD GROUP DEMOS 1984-1987:

UNKNOWN STUDIO: Dancing Charles, Violent Side
PINK STUDIO: Classical Slam, She Loves You
SPARKS STUDIO: The Sea, Cry; We'll Meet Again, Coal Train
SPARKS STUDIO:Down to the Ground, Overload; The Sea (ANC), Let the Truth Be Known
HOME RECORDED: Truth Medley, Wild Thing, All Along the Watchtower, A Love Supreme, Every Breath You Take
BENSON STREET STUDIO: Morning Always Comes Around, Message on the Door, Been Away Far Too Long

1, love - not drugs. the pulse beats blood through the veins. our minimalist rock-reggae masterpiece.

2. And here is another fine mess. and another fine example!!! 'she loves you is a cowboy song, a liverpool song, a reggae song'. we'll meet again - 'we had music like that when we were's young.' look here where it says: 'blood group - 3 observations - 1. another liverpool band? 2. blood group are heard - they've gained respect and attention, they rehearse in a cellar in gambier terrace with the ghosts of the past playing tricks on the present 3. blood group are not a "band" '- look where it says 'introductory speeches by Alan Dean, Deputy Leader of the City Council and Jeremy Corbyn, MP' - look where it shows the running order - the ones you've heard of at 4.00, The Farm, 7.10, the LA's, and the ones you never heard of at 6.20, Elephant Spa Garden, 5.10, The Blood Group. tHere she/we go(es) again. look, look, where it says 'their characteristically bare, basic rhythms constructed round a pulsing bass make a pleasant alternative to indie thrash', or 'they had a demo produced by by john "joey ramone" weaver', or 'the songs are passionate, melodic, hard and fiercely interdependent. people, listen to the words. tomorrow they could. STOP.'

8. Leroy had brought a cassette of Churchill's speeches 
and he played it loud over the PA 
WE WILL FIGHT THEM ON THE BEACHES ... 

and as the song 'the sea' faded away 
the audience started chanting ANC 
but then the chant morphed into IRA 

ITS NOT THE SAME THING shouted he. 

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10. a sequencer for the hihats and kick, martin the human drummer, who has an electric drum kit sly dunbar style, is to far left - standing between john and eric (right of picture) there was paul who played trombone. he'd left the band by this time and so they airbrushed him out of history and all, using tippex. and you can still see the merest trace of him above john's head.
so the last lineup was - electric drums, no FX guitar, bass, semiacoustic guitar and 'random explosion of percussion', trumpet. their adaptation of hugh masekela's coal train made it to south africa in the luggage of a member of the ANC delegation to Liverpool. better get hit in your soul.

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