JOHN BRETT
1969-72:
Manchester— guitarist in ‘The Pete Starkey Band’.
Only two claims to fame:
(i) opened for the band ‘Sasafras’ and
(ii) our roadie - John Cooper Clarke - met (quite rightly and deservedly) with success.
1972-4:
Joined Glasgow drummer Charlie McCloy in his band ‘Auf Queer’;
supported ’Stone the Crows’ and ‘The Alex Harvey Band’.
1974-6:
formed the band ‘Duke’;
“Nailed to the floor - slickest band in Manchester” (quote in Manchester Evening News!!).
Then—PUNK
See Andy Schemet!
Album flopped; time to give up?
After a kick up the backside by the best rock n roll singer in the business (thanks, Pete!),
off again
1980 to date:
Guitar with ‘BareWires’;
support to ‘Robert Cray’ & ‘Bo Diddley’
Co-formed ‘The Megaband’
Duo ‘John Brett-Norman Beaker’
Slide guitar with Normans’ band.
Studio work and major festivals
(Links to John recording with NORMAN BEAKER)
www.simplyws.co.uk/normanbeaker/disco/mdln.html
www.simplyws.co.uk/normanbeaker/disco/itb.html
Co-formed ‘The Best Band
Short stint on drums (13 years)
with some of the finest musicians in the U.K.
‘The Removal Men’
‘Brendan Gore’, ’Gerry McLaughlin’ (‘Gags’),
’John Price’ (‘Bamford Band’) and ‘John Gibson’ (‘Greasy Bear’).
Guitar: ‘Pete Farrow’, ’The Jam Butties’, ’The Harpbreakers’, ‘Pete Elliott’
plus ‘Perfect Strangers’, alongside
‘Taj Mahal’, ’Jack Bruce’, ’Chris Farlowe’ and….‘The Blues Blasters’!
Mossley Festival 04 (John Mortimer)