Friday 8 May - and in a slight change to the norm, we are off tonight for White Beer and Stealer down at The Terrace. Bit of a cock-up on the beer front, White Beer no longer available, have to settle for the John Smith's Cask, suits me anyway. Actually, bit of a cock-up on the Stealer front because I only recognised Tivvy, the drummer that looks like Mick Aston from Time Team, from the line-up we'd seen before.
Nil desperandum, they look the biz and indeed sounded the biz as they churned out a bevvy of heavier-than-usual rock covers. I have to confess that when they stopped at half-time for 10 minute break, we legged it to The Roman Bath to check out The Players, who we hadn't heard before. Imagine our surprise to see a bloke on some decks and a bunch of 'ladies' doing The Conga. Needless to say we didn't get more than three paces inside the door before turning tail and dashing back to The Terrace.
So, onto the exciting bit where I exercise my drink-fuelled memory and try to dredge up a list of the cover tracks Stealer played, in-complete naturally: The Kinks You Really Got Me, Robert Palmer Bad Case Of Loving You, Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama, The Who Won't Get Fooled Again, AC/DC High Voltage Rock And Roll and Whole Lotta Rosie, Neil Young Rocking In The Free World, UFO Too Hot to Handle, The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter, RainbowAll Night Long, and The Doors Roadhouse Blues. For the last one I have to apologise to 'A' as he was sure The Doors did it but I brow-beat him into believing it was Status Quo. In fact The Doors wrote and released it as a single from their 1970 album Morrison Hotel. Status Quo covered it on their 1972 Piledriver album. Oh well, I learn something new every day.
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