The Rousers - Magazine Girl 7″
July 5th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Amazing powerpop from the home of B.G.K., Gepopel and Larm. The b-side is a boring rock song with guitar solos! Imagen that! Guitar solos shall be forbidden. Ok, one tone solos done for 5 seconds is ok. Who invented them? Chuck Berry? Nils Lofgren? The guitarist in Swedens Sky High? Please help me solve the quiz.
From the great Punkmodpop site: “1977: Inspired by the new mood in british popmusic the de Jong brothers start the Rousers. In the beginning they mostly play covers: Songs by the Beatles and Buzzcocks and the Damned: It is this combination that would mark their sound, described by the band themselves as “New Beat”…“.
Country: Holland
Year: 1979
Label: Torso
Format: 7″
Songs:
Magazine Girl.mp3
Mr. D.J.
July 6th, 2006 at 9:33 am
Damn Peter, I was going to post this one tomorrow. Found a copy last week at a flea market right in the village where I live for 25 cents! Which is not so strange, as the Rousers lived about 20 miles from where I live; I bump into guitarist/songwriter Cock de Jong’s current band The Shavers from time to time; a really nice, cool guy, and still rocking! BTW, I like the B-side (maybe I’ll post that one!).
July 6th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Hi Niels! Congrats on the baby!!!
Ha ha what a coincidence then :). Happened with a Ponited Sticks post too with James from Worthless Trash. Go on and post the b-side as lots of people here certainly are dying to hear it.
What’s the sound of The Shavers?
July 6th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
July 8th, 2006 at 7:34 am
I have a pin from pinsane.com with this sleeve! :)
July 8th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Guitar solos really sucks. But there are some really good. One example: Hendrix´s cover of Dylan´s All Along the Watchtower.
January 29th, 2007 at 6:26 am
I like both sides of this record a lot. Great stuff! What is their 1st lp like?
December 29th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Dutch bands playing one note solo’s : IVY GREEN’s debut alb starts with a ONE NOTE SONG. Yes. There actually aren’t ANY chord progressions in it, and they top it off with a one note, ummm “solo” going on throughout the whole damn thing.
Come on, how kick ass is that ?