Hard Meat

Acquiring its cue from Targeted traffic, this trio had been among many clothes who, in the late 60s, ‘got it together in the country’ – within their court case, the wilds of Cornwall. To create ends fulfill, guitarist Michael Dolan, his bass-plucking sibling Steve – with whom he distributed both vocals and a Birmingham upbringing – and drummer Mick Carless required on a summer time residency as the Ebony Combo at Bude’s Headland Pavilion before presuming their genital moniker in 1969. At that time, that they had cultivated a faintly sinister ‘stoned hippie’ picture, and their repertoire hinged on originals of ‘intensifying’ rock and roll plus reinventions of functions by Bob Dylan (‘Many Likely YOU DECIDE TO GO THE RIGHT PATH (And I’ll Proceed Mine)’) and Richie Havens. After amassing a thorough time-table they were authorized to Warner Brothers Information for whom they documented two unremarkable albums and an individual – an set up from the Beatles’ ‘Rainfall’ – before disbanding in 1971. 2 yrs later on, Steve Dolan was among the solid on Pete Sinfield’s BENEATH THE Sky.