![]() Tony Dangerfield was also in the band (according to Tony that would make me a real savage)! we also spent the night in a Swedish police station when we couldn't find anywhere to stay, and the police let us stay the night in some pretty comfotable cells.they even gave us breakfast !." (2) Peter Green: "I had the pleasure of playing Tenor sax with the Savages. Six month's later we ran into Sutch "on the road" and he berated us for leaving Lyons without paying for the hotel! Evidently Sutch had to pay our bill as well as his own however he later retreived the hotel money from the promoter." ![]() The Hotel was to have been paid for by the Lyons promoter. After the Lyons gig, we left the hotel early (4am). For the Lyons gig with the Who, Sutch and ourselves were booked into the same hotel. He was taking it back to England in his van. and he told us how he'd "rescued a kitten" from the many strays breeding below The Colosseum in Rome. (1) Phillip Goodhand-Tait: "We met Sutch "on the road" in France and he was returning from Italy. ![]() He later formed Freedom with two ex-Procol Harum members, Ray Royer and Bobby Harrison in the late summer of 1967. Tony Marsh eventually left and stayed there. He particurlarly remembers the local accommodation: they spent the night in a Swedish police station after a gig (2). Peter Green remembers that Carlo Little drove the group van during that tour. They then did a months tour of Sweden from late October 1966. Phillip Goodhand-Tait recalls that Keith Moon threw a bucket of water over Carlo Little, and Dave Sutch was taking a rescued kitten from the Colosseum back to England in his Transit van (1). On route back from Italy, on October 28th, they took part of a "British Gala" at Villeurbane Palais d'hiver, near Lyons, France, along with The Who and The Stormsville Shakers. He returned to base, deeply shocked at having just read that Johnny Kidd had died in a car-crash, and the rest of his band just wasn't able to take it in either. On saturday 8th October 1966, Screaming Lord Sutch and his Savages were touring Germany and Dave Sutch popped out to get a copy of the previous day's Evening Standard newspaper. They were joined by former Crusader Tony Marsh and returning Peter Green. Among accompanying musicians were Mike Kellie, Martin Barre, Bev Bevan, Richard Tandy, John Bonham and Jeff Lynne - with whom he cut a single for Polydor: “Evening Blue”/”Times Are getting tougher than tough” which remained unreleased. After The Thrills folded, Bedder sessioned for Joe Meek for about a year, then toured with the Winstone G Set and then joined Jimmy James & The Vagabonds while Dangerfield returned to Birmingham where he fronted various bands. Tony Dangerfield, who took over from John Lawson, stayed on with Carlo Little and brought into the Savages his mate from The Travellers and The Thrills, guitarist Johnny Bedder. When asked his age, he would give it ten years younger and then reply ‘plus VAT’.Touring Germany, France, Sweden: September - October 1966 He would appear at every election wearing his signature top hat and gold lame suit. Sutch’s holds the record for losing more parliamentary elections than anyone else in British history. In fact, Lord Sutch holds the record for losing every election he stood in which totalled more than forty. During this time, he stood in many parliamentary elections. In 1983 he formed the Official Monster Raving Loony Party where he served as leader until 1999. ![]() Many of the group’s shows included coffins, daggers, skulls and bodies.ĭespite Sutch’s confession to having no vocal talent, he worked with a number of famous musicians such as Keith Moon, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Charlie Watts and Nicky Hopkins. One tour the act was called Sutch and the Roman Empire where he and the band dressed as Roman soldiers. Sutch’s group toured the UK with his stage shows which included a Jack the Ripper theme. Lord Sutch formed a horror themed rock band called The Savages. He was born David Edward Sutch in November 1940, but changed his stage name despite no real peerage. Screaming Lord Sutch, the 3rd Earl of Harrow, was a musician and politician. ![]()
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