1976-February-20

Brand X

The Nashville		London, England	


Disc 1  -  69.49
1	Born Ugly				 7.23	
2	Tales Of Ancient Mysteries		 9.02	
3	Intro Jam > Running On Three		 9.22	
4	Why Should I Lend You Mine >		 6.12	
5	Smacks Of Euphoric Hysteria		11.34	
6	Kugelblitz				11.18	
7	Introduction by Robin > Nuclear Burn	 8.55	
8	Unknown					 6.05	


	Phil Collins		Drums		
	John Goodsall		Guitar		
	Percy Jones		Bass		
	Robin Lumley		Keyboards	
	Andrew Ward!!		Percussion   (fr Camel!)


Can you believe it !  Andy Ward from Camel on percussion !!!  Sweet.

The Nashville is also known as The Nashville Rooms

Below Excerpt is taken from:

	           ANDY WARD - The Life And Times
	Original interview published in CANTERBURY NACHRICHTEN

	      http://www.musart.co.uk/org/ward/aw8.htm


C.N.	You played with Brand X at this time?

A.W.	I first met Phil Collins while we were recording "Moonmadness", 
at Basing Street Studios.  Genesis were downstairs in the larger studio 
putting the finishing touches to "Lamb Lie Down", and I needed to borrow 
a drumkey.  So we got chatting and Phil was a very friendly guy.  We met 
a couple more times after that, exchanged phone numbers and that sort of 
thing.  Then Gabriel did his famous split from Genesis, and I did a major 
interview with Chris Welch in the Melody Maker, and the subject of Genesis 
came up, and he ended up using that as the headline "Andy Ward says Genesis 
will survive without Gabriel", which was kind of odd, you know, as if I knew!  
It turned out that Phil really was a strong singer, and the rest is history, 
as they say.  But at the time it really pleased him, so the next time I saw 
him he was really chuffed, "Hey thanks for the name check", because it was 
really positive publicity at a time when they needed it.


C.N.	I remember the timber of the press at that time was that Genesis 
were sunk without Gabriel.

A.W.	Anyway, soon after he phoned me and asked me if I would like to 
play percussion with his jazz rock band, Brand X, at a gig in London?  I said 
"I’d love to".  I was very excited by this, so I went along and rehearsed with 
them.  I found them quite something to follow, not knowing the tunes, and 
there were a lot of time changes, very demanding.  I picked up on a few 
things, good enough to do the gig, but I was quite nervous about it.   
Anyway, the next day came, and it was the gig, at a place called The Nashville 
in London.  It had a tiny little stage, with the five of us crammed on.  
I was set up directly behind Phil Collins on another little platform.  We 
started playing and everything was going swimmingly well for twenty minutes 
or so, but during the fourth number, I was playing tambourine with my right 
hand, and occasionally hitting the cymbals with it, and catching them with my 
left hand to choke the sound.  I did a particularly spirited one of these and 
failed to catch the cymbal with my left hand.  The result was the cymbal crashed 
directly onto Phil’s left shoulder.  Which I’d imagine was quite painful.  It 
was just the most awful moment, and he gave me a very cold look that froze me 
to the floor.  We carried on playing, but I felt pretty shaken, and was being 
very careful.  But low and behold it happened again!  This time I missed Phil 
but demolished half his drumkit, and this time the band had to stop playing 
altogether while things were put right.  The rest of the band thought it very 
funny, and made a thing of it during the announcements.  I was never asked to 
play with them again.  But they were a great band, and it was a fun evening 
except for those two incidents.