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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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Bosco239, youtube
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Mearecate, Youtube
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk