Recorded in London in 1976, Major Surgery’s lone album is mid-Seventies jazz rock, Jimmy Roche’s electric guitar funkily truncating behind Don Weller’s Kojak sax, but not as we know it.
The quartet weren’t the smooth operators soon to characterize UK jazz, nor the anti-melodic improvisers already embedded in the scene’s underbelly, though drummer Tony Marsh was to become a mainstay of the movement. Instead, they suggest a beer goggle Mahavishnu Orchestra, micro-budget mystics surging towards nirvana on pub palette stages, defiantly rattling the bars.
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Chez, Chortle.com
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Brighton Argus
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Idrie, Youtube
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Funday’schild, youtube.
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Mearecate, Youtube
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Guest1001, Youtube
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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World Without End, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Clampdown59, Twitter.
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Bosco239, youtube
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Z-factor, Twitter.
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Stuart, Chortle