I am the former artist known as Fuzz.

I formed a band with Dave Danson & Paul Turner. The band was mainly based in Walkden, although Dave Danson was from Irlam `o the Height.

Turner had been in the original Strictly For Cash (at some point), and used the name as the original SFC had disbanded.

Rick Henshaw rehearsed and did one gig - went off to become a Top Gun fighter pilot. The actual first drummer was John Cheetham from Lymm.

Henshaw was the short lived second drummer.

Next drummer was Nicholas Frederick Knott, aka Nicky Knott or Fat Fred - -depending on his fluctuating weight.
We were resident at the Bulls Head, Walkden from Dec 1975 until 1979. When we first played there, it was many years since live music had been played there.

Sunday was the night until mid 76, when Wednesday was added.

It was house full, virtually every night. When the band had small tours, other bands were depped in - usually pals - such as Smiffy, The Trend, Captain Zap, Salford Jets.

A change of personnel occured in 77, Dave Barrow became the bass-player. He brought with him musos and friends from Stockport, such as Pete Maclane, Sad Cafe.
Around this time Paul Burgess from 10cc, depped on drums as Nicky did other gigs. This attracted more people from South Manchester. The residency was now a musos hangout, as well as regular punters.

We had 2 residencies in Liverpool, The Sportsmans and The Star & Garter. Both were muso pubs where we became good pals with The Real Thing, Supercharge, Liverpool Express and others who I`ll remember in time.

To be cont...........

Fuzz

I would be interested to know if this is a continuation of the band of the same name that I was in in the late sixties.

It was started by a guy called Wolf Montgomery (vocals) and included Derek Carr (drums) and myself Dave Foulkes (organ/bass pedals.

He got the name from a novel of the same name by James Hadley Chase.

Be interested to hear from anyone who has any info. Wolf Montgomery unfortunately died in a car accident in, I think, the early 70s.

The photo for the band was a pound note with our heads superimposed where the Queen was. It caused a bit of controversy to say the least.

Dave Foulkes