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Tommy Keene's "Tattoo"
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Last Thursday Brendan Macareg wrote:
>I just heard this Keene fellow's cover of "Tattoo" this morning at
>work and it is really
>quite good...very spacey yet kinda haunting. I don't have the title
>of the album, but
>if anyone is interesting I'll _borrow_ the CD from my office mate
>tomorrow.
I would be very interested in the name of the CD.
Tommy's Who roots go very deep, maybe his name is auspicious.
He suffered thorough a heavy indoctrination of The Who and especially
"Entwistle" during his formative years in the early 70's, much of it
started by Yours Truly.
Later he was a Moon-influenced drummer (he now is a guitarist) in my
brother's band Blue Steel, named by me after the nuclear-tipped
standoff missile carried by the Royal Air Force's Avro Vulcan Bomber
(I still have paint I peeled off a Blue Steel, at rest, of course).
My brother and I made sure he was influenced by the latest crushed
velvet suits (from Take6 on Oxford Street) and other outlandish
apparel, which showed your entire anatomy in bas-relief and made it
impossible to sit down, much less put anything in your pockets.
Needless to say, Blue Steel played a mix of Who, Stones, Purple, Rory
Gallagher, etc., through Marshall stacks.
And he truly kept the faith, as some of us became suits, he still is a
groupster, which is what we all thought we would be...
Kudos to Tommy Keene!
Regards, George