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Comments

[Steve Skinner]

John Waters' comments about the Who and Small Faces hit the nail on the head.

I used to go to the Marquee every week and the Flamingo less often. The Who were resident at the Marquee for a while and their style was changed deliberately to give them a Mod image. The Small Faces, as John says, were real mods and I saw them, for the first time, at the Flamingo when their repertoire was almost exclusively Soul and R&B derived. It was their management and record company ( DECCA ) who insisted on a commercial pop output and it was Steve Marriot's leaving to form Humble Pie that led to the band becoming The Faces with Rod Stewart.

I remember being at Tottenham Royal on a Thursday record night and "San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie, came on. The usual output there had been Soul/Motown/Surfing type material and the McKenzie disc showed that the music was changing.

It was tragic the way soul and R&B suddenly fell from favour and once Zoot Money's Big Roll Band morphed into Dantalian's Chariot the end had come. Strangely, 1967, the year when I saw the Stax/Volt review at Finsbury Park Astoria and when Mod petered out, was also the year of the hippy -type Monterey Festival ( where Otis Redding and Booker T & The MGs appeared ).

Coincidentally I saw Chris Farlowe in concert a few months ago at a charity do in a village near Peterborough. He was as good as ever.