I've been doing a fair bit of reading on my Kindle during the lockdown, including a book by Guy Pratt and ones about Brian Eno and Chris Spedding. In the Spedding book Johnny Marr states that pre-punk Bill, Peter Townshend, Paul Kossof, Mick Ronson and Rory Gallagher were the players that he and his mates admired at the time.
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What a lineup and Bill was right up there at the top ! The seventies were such a great time for hopeless guitar freaks. One of the very few reasons to be glad to be in my 60's.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPNWQ6EOoKQ
Bill and the boys supported Rory at this gig with a band called Wiggy Bits opening. FM Broadcast bootlegged.
Be Bop Deluxe - Calderone Hall, New York. 6th December 1976.
FM broadcast - fair/good quality, some tape wobble/hiss etc but still very enjoyable.
01. Life In The Air Age
02. Fair Exchange
03. Sister Seagull
04. Ships In The Night
05. Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
06. Forbidden Lovers
07. Terminal Street
08. Blazing Apostles