Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
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The Stairs
Mexican R’n’B
(Go! Discs, 1992)
Mersey "superstars of smoking" begin their "degree in R&B, to do a PhD in Psychedelia."
In 1992, grunge was hip, Madchester had gone quiet and electronic dance music was thumping out its serotonin-depleted zombie metronome like there was no tomorrow. So where did The Stairs' pre-decimal blues rock racket come from? Having said that they wanted to retrace all of music since the '60s to find out where it all went wrong, this Liverpool three-man outfit weren't telling. Instead, having possibly heard some records by The Kinks, Stones, Byrds, Doors, Yardbirds, Spencer Davis Group and other '60s aces, they simply spooled out an LP's worth of energetic, gutsy, live-sounding tunes about keeping weird hours, scrambled brains, a woman gone and said goodbye, and on first two singles Weed Bus and Mary Joanna, the benefits of the 'jazz woodbine.' (The latter came with a free 'Stairtex Record Cleaner', nice and soft on one side for your vinyl, 'Destroys all Compact Discs'-rough on the other.) Damn them, they split too soon, after just one LP and some storming live shows. Frontman Edgar Summertyme, he of the extra-enunciated growl and rubbery bass runs, would later lose the 'Summertyme' and become Edgar Jones, working with Paul Weller and St Etienne before forming primordial R&B outfit The Joneses. And what is this true believer's newest vehicle? A bluesy, rocking three-piece called Free Peace who'll be supporting Oasis (again) in June.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 11/05/2009
Further Listening
The Stairs – Who Is This Is (Viper, 2008)
The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones (Decca, 1964)
The Dukes Of Stratsophear<.strong> – 25 O’Clock (Virgin, 1985)
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