THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,769) The Anteeeks — “I Don’t Want You”
The only A-side by this band from Kilmarnock, Scotland, is an “R&B masterpiece” (Rockingscots, https://www.rockingscots.co.uk/Anteeeks.htm), “[s]uperb garage/freakbeat” (oscarowski, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LhaCDQIMzg), a “tough Garage R&B Beat dancer with hard guitar riffs” (teabiscuit, https://www.45cat.com/record/bf1471), an “organ-heavy groover” (liner notes to the CD comp Chocolate Soup for Diabetics: Volumes 1-5) And it was co-written by Pete Dello (see #920) of Honeybus (see #6, 52, 207, 434, 562, 605, 764, 1,100, 1,439, 1,582, 1,715 (with and without Dello))!
Rockingscots tells us of the Anteeeks:
The Anteeeks [were] Frank Knapp (vocals); Billy Gray (guitar); Jim Condron (bass); George Butler (drums); [and] a bloke from from Cumbernauld (Malcolm McNally) (keyboards). [They m]oved to London in 1965. . . . They supported The Animals at the Tiles club in London in 1966 and appeared on television – A Whole Scene Going in the same year accompanied by Gene Pitney [see #382]. George Butler played with Alex Harvey [see #440, 684] in Giant Moth in late ’60s, resurfaced with Eggs Over Easy – the first London Pub-Rock band then later in the Lightning Raiders. . . . [T]he Cumbernauld bloke was in fact Malcolm McNally who joined the group not long before they set off for London in late 1965. Their lone single came out in the spring of 1966, and by the summer Billy Gray had jumped ship to Bowie’s [see #9, 75, 464] The Buzz (Lower Third). Both George Butler and Jim Condon stayed on in London. George played on Georgie Fame’s [see #103, 169, 634, 695, 721, 1,044, 1,741] ‘Sunny’ record too.
George Butler was also with Ian Dury & The Kilburns and has played for The Deviants [see #564, 1,402], Brian Ferry and Elvis Costello amongst many others.” (Discogs, https://www.discogs.com/artist/1002253-George-Butler-3) Deepinder Cheema adds that: Butler was a “pub rock stalwart drummer with Uncle Dog, the Lightning Raiders, the Dirty Strangers, the Pink Fairies, the Clash, etc, etc. . . . [He also] came up with the Stiff label slogan If it ain’t Stiff, it ain’t worth a f*ck”. (https://www.45cat.com/record/bf1471)
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