(vocal and instrumental group)
(1967-1972) Hokey, Buz, Bob & Tim.
The Local Papers
Always short of copy plus the fact that we had a friend working on the Harrow Observer, they featured us from time to time. The Chain had their own feature and large photos in one edition. Another clip once mentioned some local busybody complaining about graffiti outside one particular venue and remarking "Yes and they've even had a group playing there calling itself "The Outside Toilet" of all things!" Shock horror! Fast forward him into the nineties and what would he have made of 'tagging' on tube trains?
Open air 'festivals'
We did two. The 1968 Pinner Carnival only it wasn't a pop festival but rather more like a church fete complete with attendant vicars and tea.
We had a proper stage however were the only act on and went down surprisingly well in the middle of the afternoon to a seated audience. A cine of a few minutes performance still exists. (In 1972 they had a genuine pop festival on the same site headlined by Brinsley Schwarz).
The other one was in 1971 for the Liberal Party in the grounds of Yeiwsley Grange. Again we were the only act on and there is some good cine of the band setting up! (It was too dark to film by the time we started to play).
Firsts
One year or so before Keith Richard used a commercially available "fuzz" box on record for the first time, Buz had already discovered that sound by overdriving a very small damaged loudspeaker by a relatively powerful valve amplifier- a sound that has never been equaled today -even by modern signal processing !
A year or so before Led Zeppelin were formed Buz was also using a violin bow to play his guitar - a practise that much later became associated with Jimmy Page.