Remember the time when you discovered new bands through trading tapes, shirts other bands / people were wearing, thank you lists in releases or covers the bands you were listening to were playing? Its been a while, I know... but last year it finally happened to me again when the Sydney Ducks released their Death Toll EP and the cover they recorded for the B side of Third World Wars A Little Bit Of Urban Rock. Third World War in a nutshell: Terry Stamp and Jim Avery hold the distinction of forming THIRD WORLD WAR probably the UKs first, for real, “aggro” band.Formed in London at the turn of the 70s, Third World War released 2 proto-punk albums (Fly Records and Track Records) in the very early 70s. Third World War featured an aggression unheard of at that time. With Terry Stamp’s explosive vocals, lyrics, chopper guitar style and Jim Avery’s West London, hardnut, two fisted, riff and chord approach proved unbeatable, (even thirty years on). Their socio-political agenda and proto-punk guitar style prefigured the emergence of UK “working-class” punk bands by some 5 years. A Little Bit Of Urban Rock was released in 1971 as a single through Fly Records and Polydor and was re-recorded for their second, and final album, Thirld World War II, and simply shortened to Urban Rock. - Mano
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:27:59 +0000
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