Teenage Licks / Ontinuous Performance

Teenage Licks / Ontinuous Performance

At the start of the 1970's, creativity was flourishing like never before and musicians were being encouraged to think outside of the box. We used a Stylophone (toy keyboard) in the studio recalls vocalist MAGGIE BELL And Leslie (guitarist LES HARVEY) used both a fiddle bow and a vibrator to get sounds from his guitar! Having recorded and released no less than two albums (Stone The Crows and Ode To John Law) in the space of 12 months a new look STC showed their paces with 1971's Teenage Licks. The band though were dealt a massive blow on May 3rd 1972 when Les Harvey was electrocuted onstage at The Swansea Top Rank and died. The band elected to try and carry on and JIMMY McCULLOCH (THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN) joined and finished off the recording parts for the band's new album Ontinuous Performance. The album charted in the UK at number 33 but as Maggie said The fire had gone out of us. When Les died we lost something so in 1973 we split Two original classic albums with live bonus tracks from 1971 and 1972.