BLACK TOWER

Lead Vocals, Guitar: Kevin Buddy Bachelor ex Cursed

Guitar: Graham Gyford

Bass: Steve White/Whyte ex Muff

Drums: Julian Parker

"In 1987 I formed Black Tower with Steve Whyte formerly of Muff. We brought in Buddy Bachelor on guitar and vocals, formerly of The Cursed, a rockabilly band and a new young self-taught very talented drummer called Julian Parker. We played a combination of self-penned numbers and interesting and different rock covers by Ted Nugent, Budgie, Montrose, Sword and other stuff from Tommy Vance's Friday Night rock show. We were getting quite popular and i recall one particularly good night at The Kingfisher PH, ?? when all the stars aligned and a good size audience came to see us. People had largely come to see the exuberant performance that Buddy would put on. Buddy very much had a style of his own, a kind of psycho-Presley edge to our would-be classic backing. I can still remember Adam Shelswell (Chaser, Bad Lover, Shattered) sidling up to Steve and me in the interval one night asking if our singer was going to roll around the floor that night? True to form Bud didn't let him down. Red in the face, balls to the wall psychotic energy erupted and true to form, he rolled around the floor until he threatened to detonate! No-one performed like Buddy in 1987 and it was a damn shame when he went off to replace Dave Reugg in Choi Choi. It was also a blow when Parker also left to join Bay-X.

(Gyford - Jack The Lad) (Bachelor - Cursed) <> Passion Play (Bachelor - Choi Choi)(Parker - Bay X)