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I started playing Guitar when I found an old Vox Ace
Guitar behind a friends sofa when we were decorating
his house, I was about 19 years old at the time. I went
out and purchased a book called 500 chords for Guitar
and then locked myself in my bedroom for six months!
After six months and very sore fingers, I got together
a band called Top Dead Centre! Note the initials "TDC"
We only got to play one gig before splitting up. The
vocalists wife coulnd't handle the rehearsals in her
living room each week and at the time none of us had
any money for rehearsals!
I didn'tdo much for quite a time but after a while
joined a band who I was doing the lighting for called
Godzu. Mark Fensome was the bass player in Godzu, and
after dropping the other guitarist and lead singer we
went on to do quite a few gigs. My brother Russ joined
on Keyboards, and at the time he was in the studio with
Lee Scratch Perry recording an album. We got another
guitarist and changed the name of the band to Liquid
Squid! Cool eh?
Well Liquid Squid broke up in 1994 and I went off and
started a band with the old singer and drummer from
Godzu, I called the band "20 Dead Camels"
(TDC), we had loads of problems with bass players, finding
them was the main problem! eventually we found one who
decided to get too stoned all the time and couldn't
remember what the hell he was supposed to play when
we were playing live. We dropped him and then had a
break for two years.
I joined a Hip Hop band called Transworld Siren, done
some London gigs and recorded a CD but it wasn't my
cupper tea so I quit them.
Getting bored I decided to reform the camels again
getting Mark Fensome back in for the bass, Doug who
was with us in the old camels rejoined, various musicians
had come and gone until now we have the line up where
we all get on real well and are all on the same wavelength.
Or I should have said, were!
Late 2002 we've had another line up change bringing
back the original 20 Dead Camels vocalist Mark Fisher.
Cliff Cummings - 20 Dead Camels
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