Re: (TV) Del Amitri

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <BAY22-F35l77dZvIrSg0006a0b0@hotmail.com>, Murray Ramone
<murrayramone@hotmail.com> writes
>
>"Of course we had a philosophy so strict that it eventually strangled us. No 
>chords, no choruses, no distortion, no synthesizers and definitely no long hair. 
>Melody was God. There are more tunes between the twin guitars parts and bass 
>lines in one backing track from this era of Del Amitri than in every top-line 
>melody I have written since."

they grew their hair long, though (perhaps going for the Lloyd In The
80s look!)
>
>Does anyone know if it was just demos that Verlaine recorded with them ? I'm 
>pretty sure he produced a single from another glasgow band who's name escapes me 
>from that time so I guess it was also done over here in Scotland ?

Were Love And Money Scottish? They backed him on The Tube. And he
produced some of an album by The Room, but I'm pretty sure they were
from Liverpool.

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