Showing posts with label TRAC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TRAC. Show all posts
Monday, 14 August 2017
Work in Progress #3: Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
Following his dismissal from The Clash in 1983, Mick Jones helped out on the first General Public LP, then in early 1984, put together a band he christened Top Risk Action Company. T.R.A.C. comprised Mick, John Lennard from Theatre of Hate on sax, bassist Leo Williams from The Basement 5 and a certain Mr Topper Headon on the drums. It was a short-lived configuration. Before the year was out, Mick and Leo had moved on to form Big Audio Dynamite. The only evidence that TRAC existed at all is a single band photo and a handful of demos. One of those demos, 'Du Cane Road', was later re-recorded by Topper in 1985 for the b-side of his first solo single 'Drumming Man', while another, 'The Bottom Line', was radically re-worked by Mick in the same year to become Big Audio Dynamite's debut single.
Top Risk Action Company - The Bottom Line
Big Audio Dynamite - The Bottom Line
Labels:
Big Audio Dynamite,
Mick Jones,
Topper Headon,
TRAC,
Work in Progress
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