![]() ![]() We would play Land Of 1000 Dances by Wilson Pickett, and quite often a dozen people came up on to the stage to dance. “I learned how to ‘suck in’ an audience and make them part of the show when my mum and dad took me to pantomimes. “I was an audience participation merchant from the start, even in groups at school,” Holder remembers. Occasionally there were two gigs a night, sleeping in the van. One of the main reasons was they paid us in cash. We went up to Scotland once every month – so often that it was sometimes assumed we were a Scottish band. "We’d play ballrooms, pubs, universities and Working Men’s Clubs – anything. In the late 1960s, as the ‘N Betweens we played solidly for five years, and we would take any gig we could get, often for terrible money. “But even before the line-up that people know us for, Dave and Don had been in bands before, and so had I. ![]() “Jim came to us straight out of school,” Holder recalls. There’s no substitute for getting in a van, playing gigs no matter what size and to whom, and learning how to make them better. Recorded at Command Studios, London, October 1971Īs future generations of musicians will probably realise only with hindsight, there’s really only one way to become a good live band, and that’s by getting out there and playing live. ![]()
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