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Allen England

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Jan 9, 1985, 1:27:06 PM1/9/85
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I heard on the radio this morning that Rick Allen is talking to
drum manufacturers about making a drum set for a one arm drummer.
He plans to be back playing with the band. Has anyone else heard
this?

In the 60's (I think) there was a band with a drummer who had only
one hand - the other was a claw. Does anyone remember his name and
the band? It seems I remember his name ending in 'ty'. They had a
song about him.

Marguerite (*not* Allen!!)
...!ihnp4!iwpbd!maggie2

Eli Messinger

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Jan 11, 1985, 4:53:30 AM1/11/85
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The one-armed (one-clawed) drummer that Marguerite was referring to was
(of course!) Moulty of the famed New England band The Barbarians. You
may remember them for their 'hit' "Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl?"
Or the classic single (included on Nuggets, and on one of the reissues
of their LP) "Moulty" which details the struggles of their drummer.

... uw-beaver!eli

Joshua...@cmu-cs-a.arpa

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Jan 11, 1985, 12:06:35 PM1/11/85
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The one armed drummr's name was Moulty. The band was the Barbarians.
The song about him ("Moulty") can be heard on Lenny Kaye's "Nuggets"
anthology of 60's trash rock.

Josh
"We came. We saw. We Left."

sethian

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Jan 11, 1985, 5:11:00 PM1/11/85
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One-Armed Drummers....

Yes, the keeper of worthless facts knows this one. The band was the
Barbarians, and the drummer's name was Moulty. (pronounced like molt - ly).
Their biggest hit was a wretched plea, sung by the armless drummer, to
rise up in the face of all odds and try, try, as hard as you might, and
you will succeed. Easily the most revolting part of the song was the
ludricrous announcement at the end that "all I need now is a girl, to
love me, to hold me tight, and I'll be a perfect man". The bands only
hit, whose name mercifully escapes me, can be found on the collection
album "NUGGETS---Hits from the Psychedelic Era". The album is great,
containing things like Pushing Too Hard (the Seeds), the 13th Floor Elevators,
Ted Nugent's "Baby Please Don't go", "Dirty Water" by the Standells,
"Tobacco Road", "Liar" by the Castaways, etc. If it only had the Amboy
Dukes singing "Journey to the Center of the Mind"....., wait, where's the
windowpane....

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