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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Danazawa, Youtube
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Guest1001, Youtube
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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