ITEM: VINYL SINGLE -MULTI-COLOUR WAX with PICTURE SLEEVE 45rpm 7”
ARTIST: THE GUN
TRACKS: Drives You Mad/ Rupert’s Travels
COUNTRY PRINTED: GERMANY
CAT#: See scans
LABELS: Grade at MINT-
VINYL: Grade at MINT-
SLEEVE: Grade at VERY GOOD+ /creases
COMMENT: WIKI
Evolving from the
Ilford-based band, The Knack, which included guitarist/vocalist
Paul Gurvitz (born Paul Anthony Gurvitz, 6 July 1944, High
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (although he was known by the
surname Curtis until the early 1970s), his brother Adrian
Gurvitz and drummer Louie Farrell, the trio changed their name in
early 1968 to The Gun. The full Knack lineup had been Paul Curtis
(Gurvitz) on guitar and vocals, Louie Farrell (born Brian John Farrell, 8
December 1947, Goodmayes, Essex)[2] (who
had joined The Knack in mid 1966) on drums, Gearie Kenworthy on bass guitar
(born 17 October 1946), Tim Mycroft playing organ (born 1949, Purewell, Christchurch, Dorset died 1
January 2010), and for a short while, Jon
Anderson of Yes. The Knack had regularly performed at the UFO Club,
supporting bands such as Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown and Tomorrow.
Recording sessions at Olympic
Studios produced the unreleased single "Lights
on the Wall", while in November 1967 they recorded for the BBC alternative
music radio programme Top Gear[2] and
twice played on air. In early 1968, the band changed its line-up to a trio,
with Paul Curtis (Gurvitz) on bass, Louie Farrell on drums and Adrian Curtis
(Gurvitz) on guitar.[1]
After being signed
to CBS Records in early 1968, the band scored
a hit with
the opening track from their eponymous album (1968), "Race with the
Devil". Issued as a single in October 1968, it reached the top 10 in
the UK Singles Chart, number 35 on the Australian
Singles Chart and number 1 in many UK territories in March 1969.[3] Jimi
Hendrix quoted the song's riff during his song "Machine Gun"
at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970,[4] as
did Status Quo on their song "Forty Five Hundred Times" during a
stage show at Apollo Theatre in Glasgow in 1976.[5] "Race
with the Devil" has been covered by Judas
Priest ((1977) on the 2001 remastered CD version of Sin
After Sin), Black Oak Arkansas (on their 1977
album Race with the Devil), Girlschool (on
their 1980 album Demolition), and Church
of Misery (on their 1996 demo, released as a split album with Acrimony,
and on their full-length LP Vol. 1).
Their debut album's
cover is noteworthy as it was the first by Roger Dean (credited as "W. Roger
Dean" on the back of the sleeve). AllMusic described
it as having a "distinctive psych-flavoured proto-metal"
sound.[6] Their
second album, Gunsight included "cover design +
photos" by Hipgnosis and was released in 1969.[1]
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