Persuasion sometimes has the opposite effect on musicians – “I’m not doing it” is a traditional response. But when Mick Eve suggested to Pete Goodall that he and Pete Brown got together to do an album, the opportunity was too good to miss.
Brown and Goodall set to and tidied up the lyrics but left the melodies – some written with the great original bass player Tex Makins and a couple with Pete G’s Aussie sister, intact.
Only the best ingredients were appropriate – Zoot Money, vocals,Richard Bailey on drums, Mike Bailey and Dave Hadley on bass, the late Dick Heckstall-Smith on solo sax, Nick Payn providing the horn arrangements and leading the horn section with Noel Norris on trumpet and flugelhorn, the wonderful Dave “Munch” Moore on some keyboards, with Siggi Josiah and Lynn Jackaman on backing vocals.
Pete Brown laid down the guide vocals and all that was needed was a vocalist to match the sparkle of the tracks.
One more ingredient – a remake of “Something in the Air” in a way Pete wanted it, having booked and played guitar in the original Thunderclap Newman from mid 1970 until its last ever gig at Hereford Town Hall in 1971 (with Tex on bass) with a brilliant piano solo from
Zoot
THUNDERCLAP
Pick
'n' Tell
1. Something In The Air
2. Own Way Home
3. Sunshine In My Life
4. Thunder
5. Don’t Come Down
6. Waiting Here For You
7. Love Is Only You
8. Alone Again
9. Tear My Heart
10. The Mask
11. The Old Soul Singer
12. No Shape No Form
