BIG POP GUITAR NOISE were no more. Dave, Rick and myself had gone our seperate ways, and to some extent; I felt out on a limb. I hooked up with Deak, Stu and Ruffy with a view to being the sound engineer at a couple of their gigs. They were fans of my time in GUNLAW, and we all became firm friends. Stu's one of my best friends to this day. I gradually ended up playing guitar for their band THE CRISPS. This video is the earliest recorded video that I could find that shows me playing guitar with them. It's taken from a VHS that at the time of writing this, is nearly 30 years old .. it's held up suprisingly well. At the time of this gig, we're playing some Mod stuff .. a little bit of WELLER stuff (JAM-era) thrown in and it all sounds like a cross between Mod/Soul/R&B. I kind of look 'out-on-a-limb' at this gig, but that's because I was finding my feet (again). Interestingly, we'd return to one of these songs (BECAUSE OF YOU) 3 years later in the DAVINCIS
Stonethrowing / Smithers-Jones / Because Of You / Get Yourself Together / Alone Again Now / Looking At Life And Death / As It Is, When It Was / Come On Everybody
The Crisps In Concert