![]() I’ve always been a miserable so-and-so, so becoming gloomy again is a good sign of my returning health. Then as I slowly regained my physical strength I realised that I was no longer living with the euphoric consciousness of imminent death, and I started to get depressed. Was coming to terms with living a difficult process?Īfter the operation it took a long time to recover. But now that I’m back in the world and the future’s indefinite again, I’ve regained a normal consciousness and fear death the same as everyone else. Julien Temples film Oil City Confidential released on 2nd February 2010 tells the story of the bands formative years featuring the Wilko Johnson era.May 2011. As time passed I came to accept the universe and, if it hadn’t proved painful and extended, then it would have been a perfect death. The way I handled it was to live in the minute and to absolutely accept that I was going to die. That extraordinary year of facing death is fading like a dream. me having a go.anyone out there who would like to start a band in this style get in contact, i am based in chingford east london and have a keyboard playe. Have you ever felt that your recovery cheated you out of the perfect death? Feelgood, influencing and becoming part of the story of rock’n’roll, I’m quite proud of that. He’d been watching us on stage and sussed me out as a speed freak. You don’t know it yet, but you are,” and pulled out a huge bag of whizz. After the first show, Lemmy came up to me and said: “You’re really pleased to see me. ![]() Feelgood signed to United Artists they gave us some gigs supporting Hawkwind. Over the last three decades I’ve got more disillusioned with politicians generally. Back in those days I thought of myself as an anarchist. When I was at university I was left-wing. He’s got these soliloquies where he’s just so bitter, railing against mankind. He’s partying down with everyone, they’re all spending his money and then he runs out of cash and freaks. To which Shakespearean role would you be best suited? It’s an expensive one, but I can’t be bothered with it. So we got it home, and I can’t even make the propellers go round. But on the way I got a bit pissed, went into Maplins and I come walking out with one of those drones. ![]() Just last week I was hunting around and the mission was to get a reel of gaffer tape. Then I’d barge into him and he’d send me off on a silly-walk solo. Look at pictures of Feelgood and I’m always looking across at him. Feelgood stage dynamic centred on me responding to Lee’s ferocity. Who’s the fiercest: Roger Daltrey or Lee Brilleaux? I had this technique of blowing over my tongue while drinking. I used to be able to drink a cup of hot coffee quicker than anyone I’ve met. If I was ever going to rejoin I should have rejoined the proper Dr. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if that hadn’t occurred. I sometimes think I regret the bust up with Dr. Wilko's new autobiography, Don't You Leave Me Here, is available now, as is his curated Chess artist compilation album, Wilko Johnson Presents: The First Time I Met The Blues.What are the best and worst drugs you’ve taken? Living with the idea that your life is about to come to an end, it forces into you what's important, and what's not." But I hope it's changed me for the better. That whole year, it's like a strange dream. It's almost impossible to take in, the idea that I'm still alive. I don't think people come to see me to hear any marvellous musical innovations." You and I are gonna live forever… The only time I pick my guitar up is when I walk onstage. "If you put a determined expression on and play loud, people are convinced. I can play three chords, and 12 bars, and back that whole thing up with a bit of machine gun. It can be explained in five minutes, and it's served me all this time. So that's a shame." I'm easy like Sunday morning… And she gave this thing away to some scrap collectors, right? Well, what could I say? She did this quite innocently. But then this bird come along and she was clearing out my house. It was stuck in the back somewhere, for ages. "I kept my HH combo amplifier that I used in Dr Feelgood. The only time I pick my guitar up is when I walk onstage If you put a determined expression on and play loud, people are convinced. ![]() Call me old-fashioned." I can't stand losing you… To me, everything about that style of music is the right way to do it. Here I am now - I'm an old man, and I still dig it. I thought, 'I will always dig this music.' And I was right. "When I first heard stuff by Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, it was just so exciting and mysterious. As I was learning to play in the mid-60s, if you ever saw a disc with the Chess label, you'd get excited, because you knew there was some great music on there. "The songs on The First Time I Met The Blues were so important to my development as a guitarist.
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