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Eddie & The Hot Rods

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Eddie And The Hot Rods: Woolwich Polytechnic, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 20 November 1976

EDDIE and the Hot Rods are turning into Heroes under our very eyes. ...

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Eddie And The Hot Rods: Imperial College, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, New Musical Express, 6 March 1976

FIRST DUKE DUKE and the Dukes, now Eddie and the Hot Rods – Kursaal Flyers' manager Paul Conroy knows how to pick support bands. ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Tasty, Urban Tension Classics…

Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 3 April 1976

MAX BELL says, "Kids, you gonna drive me to drinkin'. If you can't get next to HOT ROD thinkin'" ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Pier Pavilion, Hastings

Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 31 July 1976

BARRY MASTERS, Eddie And The Hot Rods' front man, drove his band down to Hastings from London himself – a sweaty, draining, three hour bang. ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods: "Punk? — We Just Do It"

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 September 1976

ENERGY, LIFE, YOUTH, ROCK 'N' ROLL! What are these strange ingredients that have suddenly injected themselves into the creaking old rock scene? "We're just DOIN' ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods

Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 October 1976

THE STORY of the Hot Rods is one to warm the hearts of those who still believe in the essential simplicity and drive of rock ...

The (?) Rock Special (#5): Other Bands

Profile by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

"I don't understand why people think it's so difficult to learn to play the guitar. I found it incredibly easy. You just pick a chord ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods/The Pirates: Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 December 1976

THE HOT RODS are careering through 'Get Out Of Denver' at a speed so close to the velocity of sound itself that the song seems ...

Mink DeVille: Loeb Student Center, NYC/Eddie & the Hot Rods: Capitol, New Jersey

Live Review by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, February 1977

DOES ANYBODY out there remember John Hammond? He was born the son of a Very Big Man in the record business but it has never ...

Eddie & the Hot Rods: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 26 February 1977

HOT — IT WAS SHEER HELL (in the nicest way) ...

Eddie And The Hot Rods: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 26 February 1977

ALMOST a Black Sabbath job, this one. You know, up goes the safety curtain, there's the band already head first and accelerating into 'Get Across ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods: Teenage Depression (Island ILPS 9457)

Review by Simon Frith, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977

THE REASON HISTORY can't repeat itself is because we know too much, and the reason that most of the punk bands currently plaguing Britain aren't ...

New Releases: The Kids Err Alright

Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, July 1977

REMEMBER "PUNK ROCK?" For a while there it was the supreme hip misconception — a much abused catch-all referring in general to any sort of ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods: The Rods Are Awright

Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 6 August 1977

"All my friends at school grew up and settled down. Then they mortgaged up their lives. When things get set too much but I think ...

Bowie and Bolan Get It On

Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1977

"OH THAT'S REALLY Polaroid! You've gotta keep the ending!" David Bowie rocked with laughter and Marc Bolan wiped away the tears that had threatened to ...

Eddie & the Hot Rods, Lew Lewis, Chelsea, Aswad et al: Punk Festival, Chelmsford City Football Stadium

Live Review by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977

And we don't careThe message: punk's now a business ...

The Thin White Duke Has Gone. Here's The New David Bowie

Report and Interview by Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 24 September 1977

THE TONE is final. This negative is as impenetrable as it is predictable. "No." ...

The Return of the MC5's Rob Tyner

Report and Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 1 October 1977

'Vocalist with legendary Detroit rock band seeks gig with hot British combo. Has own harp...' ...

Cruising with Eddie & the Hot Rods

Report by Jim Green, Trouser Press, January 1978

THE NEW Eddie and the Hot Rods album cover is black and white. It's got this geezer, lead singer Barrie Masters if you must know, ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Only Ones, The Stukas: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 7 January 1978

I WOULD have expected Christmas Eye with the Rods at the Roundhouse to turn into something of a real party, wouldn't you? Well, strangely enough, ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Life On The Line (Island)

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1978

When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette... ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 11 February 1978

What do all these bands have in common? ANSWER: They're all EDDIE AND THE HOTRODS, slidin' on the moment and trying not to fall off. ...

On The Road With Hot Rods And Radio Stars

Report and Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 25 February 1978

THE LAST, incongruous Beatles' track spirals its way to the end of its grooves. The house lights dip way, way down, instilling in you that ...

Eddie and the Hot Rods: Do Anything You Wanna Do – The Best Of

Sleeve notes by Daryl Easlea, Spectrum Records, Fall 2012

A personal recollection by Barrie Masters of Rochford, England, talking on 10th September, 2012,to Daryl Easlea… also of Rochford, England.   ...

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