#Chrissie hynde from the pretenders plus#
These three plus another temporary drummer recorded that first great two-sided single, Stop Your Sobbing b/w The Wait, with producer Nick Lowe.
#Chrissie hynde from the pretenders crack#
Just to complete a framework in which to audition new drummers, Farndon called on crack guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, then between gigs and scratching out a tenuous existence dealing rare guitars. Hynde and Farndon – a swarthy, stocky veteran of various Hereford outfits and an Australian group called the Bushwackers – hit it right off from the start, but Gas Wild had to go. The first one was a drummer with the unlikely name of Gas Wild, who hailed from the town of Hereford and knew an itinerant bassist named Pete Farndon.
The Pretenders were a matter of time and timing. A central tension in her writing emerged: in a the music industry awash in a sea of capricious idiocy, the pugnacious Hynde did not gladly suffer fools, or difficult customers. Her lyrics were tough, funny, and intelligent, co-mingling the personal and political in a manner both deeply coded and highly sophisticated. That album established Chrissie bonafides as a staggeringly artful tunesmith with a remarkable gift for pulling indelible choruses seemingly out of thin air. Brass In Pocket, that voice, that surfeit of attitude: “I’m special.” Brilliantly, it sets its narcissistic swagger to music that’s languid and sensual rather than aggressive. Street-smart, but with lashings of Brill Building nous, Detroit-leaning chutzpah. Released seven days into the new decade (in the UK at least), here was sharp, intelligent, classy mid-Atlantic pop-rock with one foot forward in the Eighties and the other rooted in Kinks-literate old-wave classicism. Hot on the heels of 1979’s sassy cover of the Kinks’ curio Stop Your Sobbing, Hynde proceeded to issue Pretenders, which remains one of the most audacious and fascinating debuts in rock music history. And so into this rock fraternity strode Hynde and her Pretenders, every bit as tough and self-possessed as their peers and taking a backseat to no one in terms of talent.
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