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Garry Jones was a bass guitarist of such versatility that he was equally at ease backing jazzer Annette Peacock as Chuck Berry. The quality of his own output, whether solo or in the context of a group, also argued a talent far above the ordinary.
Garry’s was an academic success story too as he entered Liverpool’s Waterloo Grammar School a year early and gained an honours degree in Latin at Lancaster University. In his final years, a scholarly nature dictated multi-faceted research into such disparate subjects as post-medieval icehouses in the environs of his home in Arborfield, Berkshire, and an intriguing new angle on the origin of Shakespeare’s plays.
To a wider world, however, Garry will be remembered as a musician whose career left the runway thrumming bass in various Merseyside rock outfits before he moved to Reading in 1975 to join Broad Street Rumour. Then, with guitarist John Townsend, he formed El Seven, who ploughed an appealing New Wave furrow, and were signed briefly to United Artists. However, a remarkable 1980 single, Radio Tokyo coupled with a poignant Jones opus, Turn Out The Light, topped Melody Maker’s independent chart. Magnifico, an EP on the same local label sold steadily over a long period, and a latter-day track, Under Control - augmented by Lol Coxhill and Mike Cooper - appeared on a 1982 compilation album of Reading groups, Beyond The River, and was described by one discerning listener as “Albert Ayler meets The Sex Pistols”.
Garry’s was an academic success story too as he entered Liverpool’s Waterloo Grammar School a year early and gained an honours degree in Latin at Lancaster University. In his final years, a scholarly nature dictated multi-faceted research into such disparate subjects as post-medieval icehouses in the environs of his home in Arborfield, Berkshire, and an intriguing new angle on the origin of Shakespeare’s plays.
To a wider world, however, Garry will be remembered as a musician whose career left the runway thrumming bass in various Merseyside rock outfits before he moved to Reading in 1975 to join Broad Street Rumour. Then, with guitarist John Townsend, he formed El Seven, who ploughed an appealing New Wave furrow, and were signed briefly to United Artists. However, a remarkable 1980 single, Radio Tokyo coupled with a poignant Jones opus, Turn Out The Light, topped Melody Maker’s independent chart. Magnifico, an EP on the same local label sold steadily over a long period, and a latter-day track, Under Control - augmented by Lol Coxhill and Mike Cooper - appeared on a 1982 compilation album of Reading groups, Beyond The River, and was described by one discerning listener as “Albert Ayler meets The Sex Pistols”.
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Gloryland album available now.
6 Dec 2009 | from www.garryjones23.com/
Garry Jones - Gloryland is finally available on CD in the
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