S1E52: JJ Burnel
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rockonteurs, Guy and Gary chat to musician, producer, bassist (obviously) and founding member of The Stranglers, JJ Burnel!
It’s a fascinating chat that takes us from ice-cream vans in Surrey to punk pubs in London. We discuss the massive success of the band with hits like Peaches, Golden Brown and No More Heroes through to the new album Dark Matters (out now) and the recent passing of Dave Greenfield who died from Covid in 2020 but who is very much part of this new record. Stories of fights with Sex Pistols, gigs with The Ramones and naked centrefolds, this episode has it all.
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| 0:32.0 | Hello Gary. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey guy, how you doing? |
| 0:34.0 | I'm good. I'm very excited about today. |
| 0:36.0 | Obviously the absolute childhood hero of mine because it's someone who, one of the first people |
| 0:41.0 | were you heard in the radio, where you heard this base and it sounded amazing and you thought I could do that. |
| 0:46.2 | That's right and you know that base sound from the stranglers you know you can what who was first was it was it him or was it uh Peter |
| 0:56.0 | Hook it was him I mean he was or certainly he was the first one on the radio |
| 0:59.5 | hook he was a different thing I think it was there was a you know hooky was someone who was kind of |
| 1:05.1 | finding his way and making something up as he went along whereas jJ had that incredibly it was so |
| 1:10.0 | assured and you know just the I mean I remember the first thing I heard was |
| 1:13.2 | peaches and it was just right it was just bang you know did you ever see the |
| 1:16.9 | strangler I did yeah I did I can't remember where yeah I saw them a couple times I do |
| 1:21.5 | remember seeing them at the roundhouse they did a famous sort of stint at the round house. |
| 1:25.0 | And quite frightening, quite frightening band. |
| 1:28.0 | That was their thing there, wasn't it? |
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