Skrewdriver
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Ian Stuart Donaldson, formerly of the Rolling Stones cover band Tumbling Dice, formed Skrewdriver after seeing the Sex Pistols in Manchester. Skrewdriver at first had a punk appearance, but they changed their image into a skinhead look in 1977. They also temporarily had a rocker/biker look, around the time they released the EP Built Up Knocked Down. In 1978, Donaldson moved to Salford, where he recruited guitarist Glenn Jones and drummer Martin Smith. This lineup toured extensively, but certain venues were reluctant to book the band because of their reputation as a violent skinhead band. Performing largely for a skinhead audience, the first versions of the band released one album and two singles on the Chiswick label. This version of the band split up in January 1979 after a concert in Warrington, but Donaldson resurrected the name Skrewdriver in 1982 using new musicians.
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Skrewdriver inherited its first line-up from it’s predecessor, the band Tumbling Dice, which Donaldson had formed in 1975. They were Ian Stuart Donaldson, Kev McKay, John Grinton and Phil Walmsley. When the band changed from punk to skinhead, Walmsley bowed out and was substituted with skinhead Ron Hartley. By 1978 the band disbanded. Both moving to Salford’s Cheetham Hill, McKay and Donaldson reformed the band in 1979 with local Manchester talents Glenn Jones and Martin Smith.
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Rowsell1985 why are so many Antifa spaniards? whaTEVS - they are all dickheads - lol
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Treason_is_bad I love coming on this page to look at the shouts.
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SwagNewton Y do all yall rasiss ass crakkkaz hab tah make thangz so gawd dayum hard on yoselvez? U keep puttin da BlaC men down lak we iz a bunch uv animalz! Sho! We may B da onez dat B doin da most crime,rape,stealin,an all da otha shieet lak dat! But all da thangz we B doin iz juss cuz dat B part uv our culsha yo! We iz all equalz an shieet! Yall need tah stop hatin an stop bein rasiss! I dunt C yall crakkkaz B hatin on us niggaz foe anywayz! We iz sum gewd peepz yo! Juss look at all da great thangz us niggaz dun inventedz..we built da mufukkin pyramidz,we inventedz peanut buttaz,da rap muzik,uhhhhh... moe peanut butta! Whurr would all yall crakkkaz B wiffout dat shieet? [7] come to israel [2]
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punkheavymetal I just want to an autographed photograph of Ian stuart DEAD@!!!!!!!!
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siralmo "come to israel" lmao. the irony of asking a nazi band to play in an apartheid state is so thick i'm fucking choking on it.
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AnfangSilvester Stupid band.
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