Mid-Morn Musicology: Screaming Lord Sutch + Jack. Early Halloween Treat: Jack the Ripper. Before Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson or Rob Zombie there was Screaming Lord Sutch
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 8:26:19 AM
My guitar hero got his start with Sutch (cut and pasted) - In the beginning Ritchie Blackmore, ill at ease dressed in animal skin, used to hide behind his amps and in the wings. So Sutch used to grab him and pull him out. At one such gig on June 25, 1962, Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages headlined at Wembley Town Hall. Keith Moon, another future Who, was in the audience and saw Ritchie Blackmore whose devastating runs up and down the guitar were leaving people gasping for breath.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 8:17:22 AM
I remember him best from the elections when I was a kid and he'd formed the Monster Raving Loony Party. He used to get quite good TV coverage then.