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Brief History……….
Burial
©1970 – 1971
Where
it all started…………..
Arny Sage:
Guitar, Stu Pevitt: Vocals, Pete
Willsher: Bass, Les Hunter:
Drums.
We
were a four piece hard rock band doing ‘Grand Funk Railroad’ & ‘Black Sabbath’covers (among
others).With Arny’s addition of electric piano to the band & his
songwriting talents starting to emerge, it was obvious, even at this point, that
it had to lead to greater things………..
Savory Duck - featured on "Man Chest Hair" - 2012 compilation album (follow this link)
©1971 – 1976
From
the remnants of Burial, the first
incarnation of Savory Duck was born.
Arny Sage: Guitar/Keyboards, Den Brennan: Drums and Pete
Willsher: Bass, together with new vocalist Kev Wood, (Stu Pevitt,s replacement), the newly formed lineup set
out to develop a totally new concept. Based around Arny's
formidable self penned material, and influences ranging from Gentle
Giant, Caravan to Greenslade, Duck’s music started to evolve.
©1972 : Bought with it ‘Duck’ Mk 2 and changes in lineup.
Dave Darbyshire took over the vocal duties. Organist Andy
Povall was drafted in, and bought with him rhythm guitarist Simon
Andrew, and finally drummer Den
Brennan left to pursue other interests and was replaced with Martin Soar.
‘Duck’ Mk 3: Arny
was replaced by guitarist
Barry Barnes
for a short period pending his return from Andy Macpherson’s band ‘Romany
Rye’.
©1973
– 1974 :
Stockport’s Mersey Tavern being a regular on the date sheet with some great
gigs supporting Caravan at Stoneground and Daryl Way’s Wolf at Bradford
University.
A memorable gig at The Rex in Wilmslow featuring
Simon Andrew playing rhythm guitar with a broken wrist, ended his
short musical association with the band, and
we were reduced to five piece outfit. After a short spell in ‘Duck’
management, he did a ‘Jeremy Spencer’ and disappeared without trace.
Spring
of ’74
: bought along ‘Duck’ Mk 4 and further lineup changes. Andy Rayner took over on bass and Dave Darbyshire left the band and was replaced firstly by vocalist
Bob Harris (ex - Mixtures), and later by Les
Reed from Lowestoft.
This era of ‘Duck’ has been well documented with
recording sessions at Strawberry Studios, and a gig supporting Gordon Giltrap at
Stockport Town Hall. Not forgetting of course, Stu Pevitt’s contribution to ‘Dragonflite’ on the Strawberry
Sessions.
Both : 'Variation 55' & 'Time
Is Gonna Get You' (featured on the cd) were part of ‘Duck’s’ live set
back in the ‘70’s and were painstakingly revived for ‘Time
To Reflect’.
The
Andy Stark Band - (The Outlaws)
©1974
– 1976
The Andy Stark Band or ‘The Outlaws’ as it was then
called, used to share adjacent rehearsal rooms with Savory Duck at Jacksons
Lane Youth Club, Hazel Grove. We were all acquainted as John Pevitt (Stu’s brother) played drums with the band. Pete
Willsher took over from Loz Timperley
following his departure from the band, and with the addition of
local ‘six string sorcerer’ Dave
Lowarch, the band was complete.
Following many gigs, 1975
bought recording sessions at Revolution Studios in Bramhall, Cheshire & Greengage
Studios, London. Dave left the band to join great local outfit ‘Spider Jive’
followed by ‘Harpoon’ & ‘Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders’ (to
name a few) and was replaced by guitarist Steve Jackson.
Andy
Stark’s
prolific songwriting abilities and musicianship deserve wider acclaim. Andy had
the two tracks ‘Amen’ & ‘Deadend
Town’ in readiness for when, we started the recording sessions in January
2001, and are featured on the cd.
The
Grumpy Old Men
Ó 2004
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Finally found......on a gig back in 2002! |
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Mick (Savory Ducks roadie) & his Commer van |