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The common denominator was that it was all very The Damned kids doing it, and doing it on their terms. Vanian and Captain Sensible — who was born Raymond Burns — are authorities on such matters, since the Damned were the U. With original guitarist Brian James and drummer Rat Scabies, and alongside the Sex Pistols, Clash and Buzzcocks, they helped pioneer the cutting, manic sound that defined a cultural movement in the country four decades ago. When James quit, The Damned Sensible moved from bass to guitar and the band created a new sound that split the difference between the genre they helped create and the keyboard-saturated Nuggets comp for another classic LP, Machine Gun Etiquettecatapulting them into the U. Before the tour started, Vanian and Captain Sensible participated in extensive interviews with Rolling Stone to look back on just how they got here. Dave Vanian: It was at an Irish The Damned with a small stage in Kilburn, where we supported a folk band called Salt. It was an The Damned bizarre place. They had a three-legged attack dog behind the bar. We played our whole set regardless. Were you wearing your vampiric makeup then? Vanian: I looked like that before I was in the band. I was just drawn to the Victorian-gentleman scenario, so I dressed like that. Just wearing black was a major issue The Damned — forget about The Damned else. Are you going to a funeral? We were just a band. Captain Sensible: There were no bands around that I could relate to. They were all The Damned songs about pixies, wizards and King Arthur and the round table. What does that mean to a bloke who The Damned left school? But we were only doing it for ourselves, to make the music we wanted to hear. Vanian: We considered ourselves a garage band. We were rehearsing in tunnels under the railway station, similar to the Sixties bands that rehearsed in their garages. And we were into the psychedelic music that came when everything changed in You came to the U. What was that like? They The Damned wished us lots of luck [ laughs ]. I thought it was quite bizarre at the time. The Damned were the first U. How did that work out? Vanian: I think it as just purely luck. We were just hard working. When the Pistols first The Damned, it was kind of a joke. I never thought they would become a The Damned band at the time; it was more about the spectacle than the music when they started. With the Damned, it was always about the music. Brian was a fantastic guitarist. The band members were actually good musicians. Captain Sensible: No, The Damned the thing was that the Beatles loomed so large over my generation. It was a fucking The Damned in the ass. Sure, they were great songwriters, and sure, they The Damned geniuses, but they were The Damned there. Do you agree? Vanian: Absolutely. Captain Sensible: Our label, Stiff Records, was one of the first indie labels. What the Pistols made sounded like quality, because they had a big label and top engineers and producers. It should be gnarled, a glorious lo-fi live sound. The Damned just let the tape roll. Most of the time, he was running out and getting bottles of The Damned for us. Vanian: Even the quarter-inch tape they used was second hand. We recorded one song and some other music came up after. But having said that, I love the Pistols. You recently played all of Damned Damned Damned live. What struck you about the songs? Vanian: Some of it was quite challenging. The guitar parts are a The Damned more challenging than The Damned first appear. Captain Sensible: We used to call Brian the riff-meister. There are photographs of him and Robert Plant backstage at our gig at the Roxy. Led Zeppelin came to one of your shows? Vanian: Yeah. John Bonham wanted to come up onstage and The Damned drums. All the punks were throwing things at him, and he was very, very pissed. I thought it was driven by the press, because punk was in its second year. It was a shame really. Punk very quickly degenerated into a different animal than it should have been. Your second album, Music for Pleasuredid not get a warm reception. What do you think of that now? How did that come about? We really wanted to have Syd Barrett produce the album, so we approached them about it. Captain Sensible: We wanted to make a punk album tinged with psychedelia. I think all the Floyd people were slightly embarrassed at how absolutely huge the band had become since the day they decided not to pick Syd up [for rehearsal, kicking him out of The Damned band]. At the time, he was sitting at home in Cambridge, doing his paintings, but everyone wanted to get him back in music. Captain Sensible: They imposed the Floyd recording technique on us. Everything is pristine and clinically recorded. It was The Damned different from the first album. Why did the band split up around when the album came out? Vanian: Brian was in a strange place. The songs seemed to suffer a bit. There was a The Damned bit of unrest in the band, and he decided the band was to split up. What do you remember about that time? He The Damned famous for propping up the [coin-slot] fruit machine all night. And he accepted. Captain Sensible: We were pranksters at the time. He was game. There will never be another Lemmy. Why did you sound different? Captain Sensible: When we played with Lemmy, it was just a few gigs because we were absolutely skint. Then someone said if we had a few tunes, we could get a record deal. So we decided to suddenly become songwriters. None of us had written a tune in our lives. Vanian: Every member of the band is very different from each other. Captain was coming from prog and glam rock, as well as the mods and the Who and Small Faces. I was The Damned by movie soundtrack music and obviously Sixties stuff, and a bit more melodramatic music. Suddenly The Damned were all putting it together. Somehow it clicked. The record label wanted a punk record and we were on this semi-psychedelic trip. And why not? What have you made of the goth scene, which sprang up after the Damned? In some ways, I suppose I felt a bit sad about it, because it was popularizing something that I and a few other people enjoyed, and suddenly it was this huge movement. It degenerated into a parody of itself. Who thought that up? Captain Sensible: Dave picked that title. He is the prince of darkness [ laughs ]. The Damned (band) - Wikipedia They were rarely cited as the most important of the first wave of British punk bands, nor one of the most influential, but in many respects, the Damned can honestly claim to be The Damned. They released the first U. They were also one of the first major bands on the scene to break up, and were later ahead of the pack when they reunited. And few of their The Damned have The Damned a longer or more interesting career path. Playing music that was dark but playful at the same time, the Damned started out as a loud, hell-bent-for-leather punk quartet. They soon The Damned adding psychedelic and garage rock influences into their music 's Machine Gun Etiquettedetoured into epic-scale pop with a dash of prog 's The Black Album The Damned, and embraced a tuneful but muscular take on goth 's Phantasmagoriaall The Damned their first ten years. While the strong, mannered but witty vocals from Dave Vanian remained a constant, the band's personnel and style was in flux as the group broke up and reunited with remarkable frequency. They finally found a relatively stable lineup in the s, led by Vanian and co-founder Captain Sensibledelivering a slick but enthusiastic fusion of pop, rock, and goth on latter-day albums such as 's So, Who's Paranoid? Throug it all, the band's ability to take The Damned music seriously without taking themselves seriously endeared them to a tremendously loyal fan base. The first spark The Damned the Damned occurred inwhen guitarist Ray Burns and drummer Chris Millar met while both were working backstage at London's Croydon Fairfield Hall. Burns and Millarwho would be better known in later years as Captain Sensible and Rat Scabieskept in touch as both struggled in the stagnant mid- '70s London music scene. Things took a turn when Scabies talked his way into a rehearsal with London S. There Scabies met guitarist Brian Jamesand around the same time, Scabies was introduced The Damned theatrical singer Dave Vanianstill working through his obsession with the New York Dolls and Alice Cooper. Vanian 's own history allegedly included singing The Damned Love the Dead" and "Dead Babies" while working as a gravedigger, but whatever the background, he proved to be a perfect frontman, with a fine voice and striking stage presence. Scabies put Sensible in touch with Vanian The Damned Jamesand the Damned were born, with Sensible switching over to bass while The Damned handled guitar and songwriting. After a few more gigs, the band's speedy, raucous style caught the attention of a new independent record label, Stiff Records, which was The Damned for iconoclastic bands with a sense of humor. The Damned certainly fit the bill, and Stiff wasted no time putting them into the studio with producer Nick Lowecutting the breakneck original "New Rose" and a high-speed cover of the Beatles ' "Help. After the Pistols ' infamous television appearance in which they repeatedly swore at presenter Bill Grundymost of the dates were canceled, and the Damned ended up dropping out after disagreements with Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. In FebruaryStiff released a full-length album from the group, Damned Damned Damnedand they landed the opening slot on what would prove to be the final British tour for T. They next headed to the United States for a few shows, including a memorable Los Angeles date that proved wildly influential on the nascent Hollywood punk scene. Stiff Records and the Damned who had become a quintet with the The Damned of second guitarist Lu Edmonds wanted The Damned second album right away, but the group were eager to have Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett produce the LP. It had been years since Barrett had been seen in public, and instead Pink Floyd 's drummer Nick Mason ended up in the producer's chair. No one seemed happy with the finished product, Music for Pleasurewhich appeared in November ; Scabies left the band, to be replaced by Jon Moss who would later join Culture Cluband Stiff dropped the Damned from their roster. Frustrated all around, the Damned broke up in February Sensible debuted the retro-psych act King, and Vanian temporarily joined glam oddballs the Doctors of Madnessbut neither were satisfied with their new projects. While James had no interest in reforming the band, the other three members realized they still enjoyed working together. Settling the legal rights to the name after playing some shows incognito in latethe Damned bounced back, with Sensible moving over to The Damned guitar and Algy Ward of the Saints taking over on The Damned. Vanian 's smart crooning and spooky theatricality paved the path for goth rock, and Sensible turned out to be a better guitarist than Jamesa master of The Damned riffs and instantly memorable melodies and, when needed, a solid keyboardist. Scabies ' ghost-of- Keith Moon drumming was some of the most entertaining yet technically sharp work on that front in years, and the Damned were widely judged to be better than ever. Their comeback album, 's Machine Gun Etiquetteboasted instant classic tunes like "Love Song" and "Smash It Up," showing greater sophistication while still sounding like nose-thumbing punks. While the dual career lasted for a year or two, the Damned found themselves starting to fracture again with little more than a hardcore fan base supporting the group work. Sensible finally left in mid, and second guitarist Roman Jugghaving joined some time previously, The Damned into the The Damned and the band continued on. To everyone's surprise, the Damned enjoyed their greatest chart success following Sensible 's departure. It was vindication on a commercial level a decade after they started, but 's Anything received their worst reviews since Music for Pleasure and unimpressive The Damned. After a full career- retrospective release, 's The Light at the End of the Tunnelthe The Damned undertook a variety of farewell tours, including dates with both Sensible and James joining the then-current quartet. Of course, in typical form, the Damned The Damned their minds, and the suitably named I Didn't Say It tour was mounted in The Damned, with Paul Gray rejoining the band. It was the first in a series of tours throughout the '90s that essentially confirmed the group as a nostalgia act, concentrating on the early part of their career for audiences often too young to have heard them the first time around. After some shows, the Damned disappeared for a while, but when December brought more dates, an The Damned all-new band was the result. This quintet toured in Japan and Europe for about two years, The Damned also recording demos Vanian claimed were for a The Damned album with both Sensible and James. Scabies decided to work out a formal release of those demos as Not of The Damned Earthfirst appearing in Japan in late November Vanian The Damned reestablished contact with Sensible during the former's touring work with his side project the Phantom Chordsand he The Damned to Not of This Earth by breaking with Scabiesreuniting fully with Sensible and The Damned a new edition of the Damned. Initially this consisted of Gray once again, plus drummer Garrie Dreadful and keyboardist Monty. However, Gray was replaced later in following an on-stage tantrum by punk veteran Patricia Morrisonknown for her work in the Gun Club and the Sisters of Mercy. Scabies reacted to all this with threats of lawsuits The Damned vituperative public comments, but after all was said and done, VanianSensibleand company maintained the rights to the name. Once the legal dust settled, this version of the Damned toured regularly, despite instability in the drumming department -- Dreadful left at the end offirst replaced by Spikethen later in by Pinch. While Vanian continued to pursue work with the Phantom Chordsfor the first time in years the Damned started to become a The Damned band once again, the lineup growing strong enough to warrant further attention. Inthe Damned signed a contract with Nitro Records, the label founded and run by longtime Damned fanatic Dexter Hollandsinger with the Offspring who covered "Smash It Up" for the Batman Forever soundtrack in the mid-'90s. The fractured history of the band was captured in a seemingly endless series of releases, authorized and otherwise, from all periods of The Damned career, live, studio, compilations, and more. The year found both eras of The Damned band being represented; while the new lineup was touring and working on a new album, the original lineup was honored by the three-disc box set Play It at Your Sisterwhich was released on the Sanctuary label. The limited-edition set covered the yearsfeaturing all the tracks from the first two albums along with John Peel sessions and live material. It soon came time for the lineup to issue their own album, which arrived in in the form of a slick, pop-influenced record titled So, Who's Paranoid? Former bassist Bryn Merrickwho had been performing in a Ramones tribute band, died later that year of cancer. Inthe Damned played a 40th anniversary show at the Royal Albert Hall and announced their first studio album in nearly ten years. The following year, Stu West left the band and was replaced by returning bassist Paul Gray. Inthe The Damned 's 11th record, Evil The Damnedwas finally released. In October The Damned, drummer Pinch announced he was leaving the Damned ; the news The Damned with the arrival of a new career-spanning compilation, Black Is the Night: The Definitive Anthology. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in The Damned browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Introspection Late Night Partying. Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Romantic Evening Sex All Themes. Features Interviews Lists. Streams Videos All Posts. Formed in London, England. The Damned Talk U.K. Punk, Lemmy, Led Zeppelin, Beatles - Rolling Stone

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