THE DEAD VAYNES G.T.F. lp 1985
You Lost Your Respect / She Bit My Arms, She Blew My Brains / Tonight / Motor City Baby / Midnight Gun / Television Man / Christmas Time For The Wide Eyed Faces /Cry Me An Angel.
Engineered by The Spagetti Kid & produced by Simon D .
The Dead Vaynes: Stevie Vayne: vocals / Prince Michael Vayne: guitar / Sir Harry Vayne: bass / Uncle Haggis: drums.
The Vaynes were gobbed out onto the streets of rock'n'roll city (a.k.a. Leeds 6) sometime around the end of 1984, being baptized
The Dead Vaynes by self styled Messiah, vocalist,songwriter, hellraiser, leader-of-the-pack (rock'n'roll adjectives ad nauseam) Stevie
Vayne. The fledgling Vaynes line-up had more changes than a baby's nappy and by the timethe shit hit the fan and The Vaynes were
finally to be immortalised on vinyl, nobody could guarantee their presence.
The L.P. "G.T.F." was recorded in June 1985 with the only-just-recruited Mick Vayne on lead guitar. Drummer Haggis both bashed and
rolled the skins, with Sir Harry on bass... (you can read the following on the artwork file)
The Vaynes made exceedingly good rock'n'roll records"
""SHE BIT my arms, she blew my brains..."
Iggy meets Slaughter And The Dogs, and the Vaynes ram them into the crusher and feed off the dripping juices. Hailing from Leeds, which is possibly taking over from Liverpool
in the productivity stakes, Dead Vaynes churn out seedy wasted boogie, succeeding because of a certain belief in themselves and an essential "couldn't care attitude" (essential because
it is difficult to take them 100 % seriously).
I am told they are quite an experience live and and this I can well believe, as the Vaynes deal in the sort of cruel adrenalin-injection rock that can be so invigorating on stage
and yet a dead loss on vinyl, although this disc does have it's merits.
Motor City Babies, living for the instant, Dead Vaynes are probaly already legends in their own lunchtimes." N. Perry/Sounds (May 1986)
Tanks to Nuzz for this Sound review !
Thanks to Franckie !
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THE DEAD VAYNES: "G.T.F." lp, 1986
When Stevie Vayne met Johnny Thunders in Leeds...
Read this story titled
"Knowing Johnny Thunders"
in NY ROCK
here:
http://www.nyrock.com/reviews/2001/knowing_jt.asp
By the way, who knows the meaning of "G.T.F." ?
The Vaynes were a fantastic live band. I saw them over 20 times & if my memory serves me right, G.T.F stands for 'Get to f**k.
Cheers my dears.
The Vaynes were a fantastic live band. I saw them over 20 times & if my memory serves me right, G.T.F stands for 'Get to f**k.
Cheers my dears.
@ Flash Tightpocket:
Thanks for "G.T.F." !
You saw them ‘over twenty times’ Flash Tightpockets?!?!?! Jesuz. Masochism beyond the cause!
They were a good entertaining rock n roll band, nothing more nothing less. By the late eighties they were floundering, knocking out bad eight minute version of Dillinger’s Cocaine as everyone stood around waiting for Thunders to hit the stage (often a long wait), or wandered off to the bar.
Thank you very much for this great post. Fantastic record.
Nice post MR, much improved rip and artwork than what I posted over on my blog, I was told an alternate meaning of GTF by Stevie Vayne....Get Totaly Fucked. I came across this live session @
http://darkcircleroom2.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Vaynes
Really Rough'n'Raw, brilliant stuff. Dunno if you've heard it?
All the best and keep on keeping on.
Great fuckin' LP. Not interested if their drug habits ruined any live shows in Leeds 20 years ago --- this is what we have now and I'm glad for it.
pscuot78I'm sure my old mate Smelly was in an early version of the band.Ring any bells?
Someone mentioned that name in a conversation I had the other day. I shall dig a little deeper & see what I can find out for you.
Someone mentioned the name in a conversation just the other day. I shall dig a little deeper & let you know.
F.T.
Smelly definitely was bassist for the Vaynes for a while. His bass didn't have a strap, it had a length of chain. With his "I am Nasty" leather jacket and that chain, he looked fantastic onstage. He wasn't that great a bassist, but he sure as hell looked the part.
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