25 October 2024 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Sir Douglas Quintet. Being Early Can Make You Late? Date: 1984 Artist: Sir Douglas Quintet Album: Rio Medina Place: San Antonio Texas How Being Early Can Make You Late? Back in 1984, I found myself heading to San Antonio… Read More
6 May 2024 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Movies, Pye Mobile, Singers, Stories, Writers My Book Is Now Available From Amazon After what feels like forever and in fact was a lifetime, I'm thrilled to announce that my book is finished and on sale If you are even slightly intrigued and… Read More
8 February 2023 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Status Quo & Young and Moody & The Devil Went Down Place - Pye Studios - De Lane Lea Studios Wembley Time - 1970s Artist - Status Quo - Young & Moody For over 50 years Status Quo, known today more… Read More
9 December 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories A Look At Vic Maile Recording Engineer/Producer & Close Friend Place - Pye Studios/Mobile/DeLane Lea /UK Time - 1969 - 1989 Artist/Producer - Vic Maile Engineer and Producer. Vic Maile started his career as a sound engineer in 1965 at… Read More
18 November 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Singers, Stories, Writers Joe Sun & What’s An English Guy Know About Country Music Place - Nashville - London - Sweden Time - 1984 Artist - Joe Sun And The Solarsystem James Paulsen September 25, 1943, – October 25, 2019, known professionally as Joe… Read More
19 October 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Eldorado The Album & Meeting Lou Clark For The First Time Place - De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley - Nashville Time - 1974 - 2007 Artist - Louis Clark Louis Clark Born 27 February 1947 Died 13 February 2021, was an… Read More
16 August 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Singers, Writers John & Yoko-Tony Wilson & The Birth Of Hot Chocolate Place - UK - USA - Trinidad Time - 70's - 80's - 90's Artist - Tony Wilson Tony Wilson Was born in Trinidad and was involved with music from… Read More
18 March 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Movies Nostromo The Alien Theme – In Space No One Can Make You Dance – Except – Nostromo Time - 1979 Place - De Lane Lea Studios Wembley - Bronze Studios Artist - Nostromo Nostromo Was a studio band I put together 1979 to release a disco single… Read More
5 March 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Movies, Pye Mobile, Stories Special Little Moments (From The Blogs) Pt 2 Place - The World Time - 1960 - 2005Artists - Various David Carradine – Fascinating? Maybe. Weird? Definitely For the full story go to Stories David Carradine was best known… Read More
5 February 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands Geriatric Dinosaurs Join The Party Tubeway Army Place - De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley, United Kingdom Time - April 1978 Artist - Tubeway Army Tubeway Army Were a London-based punk band led by lead singer… Read More
25 January 2022 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories You Gotta Have Faith that I’m Your Man Place - Wembley/Edgware Time - 1979/80 Artist - Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou - Singer & Songwriter/Record Producer Georgios Panayiotou Was an English singer, songwriter and record producer. Known as a leading creative force… Read More
11 October 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Peter Green Part 2: The Most Horrendous Argument Place - KD's Studio, Chiswick, London Time - 1997 Artist - Peter Green- AKA Peter Greenbaum Album - The Robert Johnson Songbook Production Credits As we were making progress with… Read More
7 October 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Peter Green Part 1: Do You Believe In The After Life Place - KD's Studio, Chiswick, London Time - 1997 Artist - Peter Green AKA Peter Greenbaum Album - The Robert Johnson Songbook Peter Green had reached legendary status over the… Read More
3 October 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Secrets In The Attic Place - KD's Studio, Chiswick, London Time - 1994 Artist - Alisha's Attic Alisha's Attic was a successful duo in the mid-nineties. The two sisters Karen and Shelly are the… Read More
21 September 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Sham 69: Got What It Takes To Be A Star Place - De Lane Lea Studios, England Time - 1977 Artist - Sham 69 Engineer - Rafe McKenna In early 1977 whilst working at De Lane Lea the managing director,… Read More
14 September 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Cajun Adventure Part 4: Treachery & Greed Place - London, England Time - 1992 Artist - Toby The next eighteen months would relieve me of both my sanity and $50,000. The first six months was spent negotiating… Read More
13 September 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Cajun Adventure Part 3: Baloo really was a Bear Place - Lafayette, Louisiana Time - 1992 Artist - Toby Tomera Baloo Arrives Having spoken to Camey Doucet I phoned Toby almost immediately, I explained who I was and about… Read More
12 September 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Cajun Adventure Part 2: The Happening That Never Happened Place - Triangle Club Scott, Louisiana Time - 1992 Radio DJ - Camey Doucet The Triangle Club After a good night sleep at a Carlean hotel I was up early… Read More
11 September 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Cajun Adventure Part 1: The Search for Talent in Louisiana Place - Louisiana Time - 1992 Artist - Toby Tomera First a quick history lesson, don't worry I'll keep it short. In 1605 French settlers arrived in what is now… Read More
19 August 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Pye Mobile The Doors – In the Dark About the Bass Player Place - Isle of Wight Festival Time - Saturday 29th August 1970 Artist - The Doors Late on the Saturday evening we were receiving a lot of feedback in the… Read More
17 August 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Pye Mobile The Who Live At The Oval Cricket Ground 1971 Place - The Oval Cricket Grand Time - 18th September 1971 Artist - The Who The Pye mobile recording studio was hired to record the Goodbye Summer: Concert for Bangladesh… Read More
15 August 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Pye Mobile The Who – Hells Angels and a Broken Drum Mic Place - Isle Of Wight Festival Time - 30th August 1970 Artist - The Who By Saturday the 29th of August the festival was well on its way. There were… Read More
30 July 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands Dr Feelgood and the Secret to Stupidity The Place - De Lane Lea, Wembley The Time - August 1976 Artist - Dr Feelgood The Album - Stupidity Engineer - Vic Maile Dr. Feelgood formed in 1971 was… Read More
25 July 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Singers, Stories, Writers Doug Sahm Nightmare Part 3 – The Sessions The place - Different Fur Studios - San Francisco The time - December 1983 Artist - Sir Douglas Quintet The producer - Kenny Denton Five days and counting On the… Read More
24 July 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Singers, Stories Doug Sahm Nightmare Part 2 – The Rehearsal The Band- Sir Douglas Quintet Place - Mill Valley San Francisco Time - 1982 Rehearsal Studio On arriving at my motel I was informed that there was no reservation made… Read More
23 July 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Singers, Stories Doug Sahm Nightmare Part 1 – A Bad Start The Band - Sir Douglas Quintet Place -Sweden & San Francisco Time - 1982 Album - Midnight Sun "You can always tell a Texan but you can't tell him much."… Read More
10 July 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands 30 Million in Just 2 Minutes, What a Triumph! Place - Pye Recording Studios Time - 1970 Artist - Mungo Jerry Producer - Barry Murray Engineers - Terry Evennett & Howard Barrow Mungo Jerry’s greatest success was with the… Read More
5 July 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands ELO and Jeff – So Wrong Yet So Right Place - De Lane Lea Studios, Wembley Time - February 1974 Artist - ELO The Electric Light Orchestra is a rock band from Birmingham, England. By the mid 70s they… Read More
1 July 2021 By Kenny Denton Music In Bands, Stories Clem Cattini Performs Some Real Magic Place - Decca Studios, London Time - Mid 60s Producer - Dick Rowe The renowned Dick Rowe was the producer on this Decca Studios session. Famously he was head of… Read More