Track 13 - 'PA Trouble' - is 20 seconds of the beginning of 'Problems' where they have to stop because of PA Problems, Johnny Rotten says "Someone don't like us" then they continue with Track 14 'Problems'
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Ed Kuepper is currently touring with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (not near me unfortunately) but it does demonstrate his stature as a musician and back up your comment Apollo59.
Incidentally, I grew up in the same neck of the woods as the Saints and went to school with many of their younger brothers and sisters (even went out with some of them) but when we were kids we thought they were crap. Always making an unearthly racket when we were playing in the back garden. Bob Farrell (later sax player for the Laughing Clowns was the worst) but by the time we wised up in our later teens they were all long gone.
They did manage to leave us a good blueprint of the DIY method of how promote and make music. Brisbane was the perfect culturally void shithole town in a police state for artists to develop in relative isolation. So it was until the corrupt government was exposed and the advent of the internet stuffed everything up. Now it is the same as everywhere else and less interesting than when supposedly nothing was happening at all. This is still my favourite Saints single (EP) two great covers and two great originals.
The Saints were far too good as musicians to be getting tagged as mere Punks, which they patently were not. They probably were more closely associated with the Pub Rock scene, where unfortunately these bands although celebrated weren't known for selling too many records.
At least they made 2 great singles, (I'm) Stranded and (This) Perfect Day, which is more than can be said for most of the rubbish released during that period.
Recorded at 76 Club eh? It's kind of odd as in Brisbane we had a venue called Club 76 in Petrie Terrace where the Saints cut their teeth before heading to the UK to get pissed off and break up. Thankfully, they still managed to knock out two great albums Eternally Yours and Pre-Hiistoric Sounds in the process before Ed Kuepper left and Bailey took the (New) Saints for long journey down Rock Ballad Road until their eventual demise.
76 Club - Club 76 some sort of global punk zeitgeist?