TBD 036

TBD 036 is a tribute song of sorts, commemorating a terrible disaster over 130 years ago. In fact, Van Credenza dedicates this song to all dreadful calamities. This composition uses as main instrument the bass guitar; in fact 4 bass guitars are layered to produce the exclusive and distinctive tribute sound of TBD 036. The band would like to thank the underrated Willie Mack Comingle for his help and contributions towards this song.

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Standing In The Road

Standing In The Road

Twins Tom and David Farmer, and school friend Eddie Golga formed Blackfoot Sue along with Alan Jones in Birmingham (UK) in 1970, but they weren’t a ‘one hit wonder’ band as some believe: they also had a hit with Sing Don’t Speak (number 36) a few months after Standing In The Road reached number 4 in the charts in 1972. So they were a ‘two hit wonder’.

In later years, after 3 albums, Blackfoot Sue became Liner, then Outside Edge (as a trio), recording 5 further albums, before reincarnating as Blackfoot Sue in 1993.

Van Credenza used a live rattlesnake to record this version, as a tribute to the band’s major named influence, the Blackfoot Sioux tribe of the Lake Michigan region, who extensively used rattlesnakes in their rituals and traditions. Sihasapa (blackfoot) wore black moccasins. Catlin in his Letters and Notes, written during his stay among the northwestern Indians (1832-39), mentions the Blackfoot Sioux as regularly using rattlesnake parts, and live creatures, in every day work and events.

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Salmbacha

The Salmbacha is a fusion of Franco-Latin movements and rhythms, which originated in the Bas-Rhin department of Salmbach in Alsace in north-eastern France during WW2. The tiny settlement of Salmbach housed several Argentine Nazi sympathisers, living under cover close to the German border. These South American sorters organised the escape of several prominent Germans close to the conclusion of the war in Europe: but they whiled away their idle hours dancing with local collaborators, and so the Salmbacha evolved. It is a mysterious dance: this video doesn’t reveal many of the steps, and that is the way it should be.

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