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the live and the studio music that bands produced. Live was rough and powerful, studio work (even for albums) was clean and sanitised for the charts. I have flip sides of singles by bands that you would not even mention in the same breath as R’n’B but could easily mention in the same sentence as Julie Andrews - with extreme efforts to get that rough ‘n’ simple R’n’B sound (Dave Clark Five - Concentration Baby and Brian Poole and the Tremoloes - I Can’t Dance (spookily)). The Small Faces kept it all up on their flip sides with Home Grown, Almost Grown and other references to the dreaded weed which were rough 12-bar instrumental numbers and give you a flavour of what you would have seen had you been going to live gigs at the time, rather than buying CDs years later. The pinnacle of their achievements on this score was “I Can’t Dance with You” which was enormously funky as well as being rough and tough.
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