RUDI - "14 Steps"
[Ed.- Here is part two with Brian Young of RUDI. Rudi were Brian Young - Vocals & Guitar, Ronnie Mathews - Vocals/Guitar, Graham Marshall - Drums, Gordon Blair - Bass and later Paul Martin - Keyboards, Vocals. Here's what Brian had to say about the song "14 Steps" and more about RUDI.]
"The B-side '14 Steps' is about much the same thing (as 'Crimson') only it's just saying you only get one life so don't waste it or poison it with guilt, hate and other fun emotions..the title came out of us wondering (probably drunkenly!!) why there are always the same number of steps in a staircase...(14... ulp! what were we on!) That's it in a nutshell.. Both were recorded in a few hours in Konk Studios in London and produced by Dave Woolley who engineered some Jam stuff but had never produced a record in his life before! We had wanted Mike Robinson who did the BBC session which we loved to produce the record but Jamming! couldn't afford the £200 he wanted paid to do it. Dave did O.K. though. Robin Richards who did so many of the old punk t-shirts did the sleeve for free - it was his wife on the front of it.....so we thought the finished article coulda been produced better but it did real well for us...in fact one of the best memories I have of the time I was in RUDI was the last night of our stint as support to the Jam on the Transglobal unity express Tour when we played the Queens Hall Leeds which was the biggest venue we ever played to a packed house and Dave Liddle (Paul Weller's guitar roadie) introduced us with the news that Sounds had made 'Crimson' 'Single Of The Week'..and we went down a storm.... We always said it was up to the listener to decide what the songs were about and whatever it meant to them was what it was about...(just remembered one guy thunk it was a song advocating suicide...aw well!) ya can't win em all!"
[ED.- Thanks again to Brain Young for allowing me to post his music and for contributing to the site.]
Brain continues to make music with the SABREJETS.
Read more about RUDI here and here.
2 Comments:
This is about an old post, but I finally got around to listening to 'Looks' by (the?) Student Teachers, and I really really love this song. I've been listening to it for two days straight. Thanks!
Yep!
The b-side is a s good as i remember it.
Thanks for this.
Simon
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