![]() ![]() I’m 75 and became a member of the Leicester Street Buskers in 1967 when Old Meg introduced me to her neighbour Jumping Jack Flash. And of course our thanks, love and best wishes to Wilko. Our thanks to Steve for generously giving up his time to chat to the Harp Surgery. You can catch up with Steve ‘West’ Weston meanwhile on his MySpace page, on SoundCloud and all over YouTube. You can buy your copy of Going Back Home through iTunes or Amazon (but don’t ask Steve to show you how to download them). The images of Wilko above are from his official website, which is here. You can listen to the full Harp Surgery interview with Steve Weston on Soundcloud right here. To end up making a record with somebody who I gawped at in admiration as a teenager is one of the great rock fantasies, isn’t it? This is quite possibly the last thing I ever do, which is rather strange and fantastic.‘ I’ve had my ups and downs but it’s been a pretty good life, really it would be churlish to complain. Wilko recently spoke to the Daily Telegraph ‘My wife died ten years ago, of cancer, and I know what it’s like to lose somebody, to see them being taken away from you, that’s terrible, terrible. Going Back Home always evokes memories of that first big break up at College and the dreadful bus journey home along the Holloway Road. He did alright for a left-handed geezer playing right-handed guitar. But I did witness the Solid Senders on several occasions and I will always treasure the memory of Wilko’s manic glare, his psychotic twitches, his tommy gun Telecaster and those flying splits. Unfortunately, I never did see Wilko with the Feelgoods. Just to acknowledge that, like so many, it was Doctor Feelgood that gave me my huge appetite for the harmonica and playing live music. Wilko’s sanguine attitude towards his fate has been well documented and there’s little I can add here. I wanna be your lover, wanna keep it to myself The addition of Roger Daltrey’s vocals works perfectly well, as does Steve’s harp work. Add it to your record collection now! ![]() How could it? It’s a revisit of all the best stuff Wilko ever brought to the blues table, Canvey style. Īnyway I don’t need help from anybody else Better still, it’s number one in the digital download album charts. Not bad going for a blues album recorded in a matter of days. The tracks I played on were Going Back Home, Keep It To Myself, Bob Dylan’s Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window and Some Kind Of Hero’.Īs I write, Going Back Home sits at number three in the album charts behind a Simon Cowell backed album by X-Factor winner Sam Bailey and George Michael’s latest release. ‘ I used a Quilter Pro 2000 100 watt transistor amp with one 8″ speaker that belongs to Ronni Boysen, and a mic with a Sure CR Element in an Astatic microphone. ![]() ‘I played cross harp on everything‘, he explained. I asked Steve about his recording with Wilko. Honey how can you ever want another man’s loving The new project took shape at Yellow Fish Studio in Uckfield in November 2013 and the recording process was rapidly executed. Steve Weston went in later to overdub his contribution on four album tracks, with Wilko and Norman Watt-Roy present in the studio. Wilko had often attended Steve’s gigs at the Railway Hotel in Southend, and they’d become firm friends. ![]() At that point he pledged to help Wilko with one last album ‘ even if it meant singing Three Blind Mice‘. Unfortunately, tour commitments eclipsed their efforts and the project was abandoned until Roger subsequently learned of Wilko’s terminal cancer. Johnson and Daltrey discovered their common interest during a music award ceremony in 2010 and a recording project ensued. A name many will recognise from the heyday of the 70s-80s New Musical Express, and as author of the John Lee Hooker biography, Boogie Man.ĭon’t wanna get turned down, don’t wanna push nobody round now The original release also featured mouth harp, laden with reverb and free of crunch, but no less effective. On that occasion it was ladled out by the king of counter-culture himself, and erstwhile front man of Blast Furnace, Charles Shaar Murray. I Keep It To Myself first surfaced in 1995 on Wilko’s Barbed Wire Blues album and is, for want of a better description, a Canvey Island take on Wild One with a hint of Johnny Cash. Well wait a minute baby, what you gonna do? You can listen to our chat and find the answer to Neil’s question on SoundCloud the end of this post. So instead, let’s cut to the chase and call West Weston for the answer. In any case, divulging the secret could quite possibly make me redundant. Now, in response to the original email, I could slide into a friendly discourse about how to identify song keys and pick the right harp for yourself, but I’ll save that pleasure for a rainy day. ![]()
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